Posted on 06/23/2009 10:26:26 AM PDT by SolidWood
LONDON: High-ranking Pakistani officials were behind the killing of eleven French ship-building engineers in Karachi seven years ago, two French judges have ruled.
Until now al-Qaida had been blamed for the bomb attack on a bus in 2002 that killed 11 engineers and three Pakistanis.
The judges suspected that the Pakistanis were retaliating over a decision by former French President Jacques Chirac, to halt payment to Pakistani officers of millions of pounds in secret commission from an 720 million pounds contract signed in 1994, for three French submarines, the Time reported on Tuesday.
The dead engineers were working on the submarine contract for DCN, the French naval shipbuilding enterprise.
Some of the money was kicked back to France to finance the 1995 presidential campaign of Edouard Balladur, Chirac's Prime Minister and rival, according to claims disclosed by the judges.
The chief of Balladur's unsuccessful campaign that year was Nicolas Sarkozy, who was then the Budget Minister.
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I have heard similar stories from Iraq (corrupt officials who could not get their desired kickbacks from foreign construction managers, so they had them killed but made the hit look like Al Qaeda)
How in the heck will we ever be able to work with these corrupt sob's to get rid of Al Qaeda???
Were the Taj Hotel and 9/11 the same kind of thing?
>.How in the heck will we ever be able to work with these corrupt sob’s to get rid of Al Qaeda???
LOL! As of now, Bush spent 11Bill on Pakistan.
Obama is gonna give even more over the next few years.
That AQ Franchise sure has proven lucrative for Pakistan’s Army and associated elites.
How come America gets played like a Stradivarius by the Pakistanis?
eleven French ship-building engineers in Karachi seven years ago, two French judges have ruled
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