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The US military has awarded an $80 million contract to a prominent Saudi financier who has been indicted by the US Justice Department. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases in Afghanistan was awarded to the Attock Refinery Ltd, a Pakistani-based refinery owned by Gaith Pharaon. Pharaon is wanted in connection with his alleged role at the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the CenTrust savings and loan scandal, which cost US tax payers $1.7 billion. (ABC News Photo Illustration)The Saudi businessman was also named in a 2002 French parliamentary report as having links to...

NIGERGATE THE TRUTH: HOW THE FRENCH TRICKED THE USA “I was employed by the French since 1996. I handed the false documents on the uranium trade between the Africa and Iraq to them” –-- With this startling declaration Rocco Martino, the freelance spy at the centre of the false Niger dossier, has confirmed that France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq. Before examining Martino’s deposition it’s worth taking a look at some of the details regarding France contained in the Senate Select Committee...

A day after Mr Chirac denounced the so-called Clearstream affair as a "dictatorship of rumours", Le Monde newspaper published notes of General Philippe Rondot that pitched the 73-year-old President into the centre of the scandal, which continues to blow the lid on the way power is exercised in the dying days of his inglorious 11-year presidency. Mr Chirac and his protege, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, are accused of covertly instructing a French intelligence official to secretly investigate their internal party rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, in an apparent attempt to ruin his chances of becoming president. ............. General Rondot...

French Intelligent officers? who pretended to be Journalisy been found in Felloja The two “fake Journalists” were found few hours ago. I wonder how many embedded “French Arabs” will be caught soon. Most of them speak with Iraqi slang, because they were in Felloja in the 1980’s, In support of the Mirage squadron in Habania.

Across the Rubicon The most experienced counterterrorist investigator in the Western world is France's Jean-Louis Bruguiere. He is not campaigning against a U.S. regime change invasion of Iraq. But he is saying Islamic militants are recruiting hundreds of jihadi-prone co-religionists to carry out terrorist attacks as soon as the war balloon goes up. He also sees the bulk of these threats emanating from groups in Chechnya. Many of these terrorists were trained in how to make chemical weapons in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and/or in the Red Army during the Cold War. Mr. Bruguiere has searched high and low...