Posted on 06/04/2007 9:52:18 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa
Edited on 06/04/2007 11:09:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ROFL!
Of course the Old York Times will be Front Page for the next month on this obvious theft.
Pray for W and Our Troops
And the Democrats revere this fraud and scumbag.
Remember that photoscan of the Post-Standard from Feb 26, 1999 showing “Joseph C. Wilson IV, chief executive officer, J.C. Wilson International Ventures Corp., and Valerie Wilson” (bottom, fourth column) attending a state dinner tribute for Ghanian President Jerry Rawlings? Guess who was also on the guest list that day? “Rep. William J. Jefferson, D-LA., and Andrea G. Jefferson, vice chancellor, Southern University at New Orleans”. Man, oh, man what a tangled web...this is really going to get interesting! 56 posted on 06/01/2006 11:37:58 AM PDT by ravingnutter
And then, in 1992, Rawlings finally swapped his airforce fatigues for smart suits and ran for president, winning multi-party elections on the ticket of his National Democratic Congress, NDC. Four years later, he repeated the feat although the opposition, led by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), said both elections were stolen.
Over the last eight years [1992 to end of his term in 2000] , he has managed an uncanny diplomatic balance act between coddling Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and speaking on behalf of Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi, and receiving US President Bill Clinton and the Queen of England. Close associates say he was gifted not only with a sixth sense, but also an extra pair of nostrils, for survival. ------------ "Rawlings: The legacy," You are in: World: Africa , BBC News, Friday, 1 December, 2000, 16:53 GMT http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:7AZ69LQQRFgJ:news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1050000/1050310.stm+%22jerry+rawlings%22&hl=en[* My note: Rawlings's presidency ended in 2000]
MARCH 1999 : (WASHINGTON, DC : 'BLUEPRINT FOR US-AFRICA PARTNERSHIP' IS SIGNED-- See RICHARDSON, CLINTON) The Blueprint, as you know, was signed in Washington, in March 1999, and delineates a road map to promote democracy, good governance, human rights, trade and investment, and global integration. - testimony by Calvin R. Humphrey, principal deputy assistant secretary for international affairs at the Department of Energy, before the Subcommittee on Africa in the House of Representatives, March 16, 2000------"Text: Africa "Key Source" for Energy Supply and Development," Senior U.S. energy official testifies before Congress, http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/af/trade/a0031701.htm.
1999 : (AFRICA : GHANA : KING[DOM] HOLDINGS TRIES TO BUY INTO ASHANTI GOLDFIELDS COMPANY---- See HOLY LAND FOUNDATION, MOHAMMED HUSSEIN ALAMOUDI) A powerful Washington, D.C., law firm with unusually close ties to the [Clinton] White House has earned hefty fees representing controversial Saudi billionaires as well as a Texas-based Islamic charity [HLF] fingered last week as a terrorist front.
The influential law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has represented three wealthy Saudi businessmen - Khalid bin Mahfouz, Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi and Salah Idris [salah Idris is the guy who owned the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant that was bombed by the US during the Clinton admin] - who have been scrutinized by U.S. authorities for possible involvement in financing Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.
In addition, Akin, Gump currently represents the largest Islamic charity in the United States, Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in Richmond, Texas.... ------ "SLICK DEALS; The White House connection; Saudi 'agents' close Bush friends," The Boston Herald, December 11, 2000 via 103 posted on 06/26/2004 7:34:18 PM PDT by Shermy
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A Saudi delegation headed by prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, the billionaire chief of Kingdom Holdings and nephew of king Fahd, is presently [May 7 2003] touring the Gulf of Guinea and has already visited Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. Kingdom Holdings is already active in Ghana, where it owns a stake in the Cal Merchant Bank and attempted in 1999 to buy into Ashanti Goldfields company. ---- "Africa Energy Intelligence: Saudis Take a Look," May 7, 2003 104 posted on 06/26/2004 8:23:53 PM PDT by Shermy
* Mohamed Alamoudi : ...but also the Rock Creek Corporation, an investment company controlled by [Mohamed] Al Amoudi and chaired since 1997 by a Lebanese businessman very connected into the power circles of Washington, Elias Aburdene. Former adviser of the Franklin Bank National in Washington DC, Aburdene at the start of his accession to the head (position) of Rock Creek Corporation hired the ex - adviser to Bill Clinton for African affairs, Joseph Wilson IV. The latter had already met Mohamed Al Amoudi in 1997 at the time of a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group (LAW n.794). --- via Shermy
APRIL 1999 : (AUDIT OF THE NCB AND ITS FOUNDER AND FORMER CHAIRMAN KHALID BIN MAHFOUZ REVEALS "PROTECTION MONEY" TRANSFERS TO BIN LADEN VIA "CHARITIES" SUCH AS ISLAMIC RELIEF AND BLESSED RELIEF - THE NCB'S CURRENT CHAIRMAN IS MOHAMMAD HUSSEIN AL AMOUDI, WHO IS ALSO HEAD OF THE CAPITAL TRUST BANK IN NY AND LONDON - - See VERNON JORDAN, MOHAMMAD AL AMOUDI'S LAWYER) "…."The businessmen, who are worth more than $5 billion, are paying bin Laden "protection money" to stave off attacks on their businesses in Saudi Arabia, intelligence officials said.
Bin Laden, whose family runs the largest Saudi construction firm, has called for the overthrow of the Saudi government. The money transfers were discovered in April after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, U.S. officials say. Mahfouz is now under "house arrest" at a military hospital in the Saudi city of Taif, intelligence officials said. His successor, Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, also heads the Capitol Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to bin Laden. [Mohammad Hussein ] Amoudi's Washington lawyer, Vernon Jordan, could not be reached for comment……" -------USA Today 10/28/99 Kelly
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"…. More than a year after the U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, prominent businessmen in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden, senior U.S. intelligence officials told USA TODAY. The money transfers, which began more than five years ago, have been used to finance several terrorist acts by bin Laden, including the attempted assassination in 1995 of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia, he officials said……. According to a Saudi government audit acquired by U.S. intelligence, five of Saudi Arabia's top businessmen ordered the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the kingdom's largest, to transfer personal funds, along with $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund, to New York and London banks. The money was deposited into the accounts of Islamic charities, including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for bin Laden….."------------ source?possibly USA Today 10/29/99 Jack Kelley?
Oh boy, what a politically incorrect hot potato this could be...
Alamoudi investments in African telecommunications included a Pan-African telecommunications project launched in 2001 by Pan African Communications Network (PACONET) with financing from a fund chaired by former South African President Nelson Mandela and cofinanced by the International Finance Corporation (IFG), the American International Group (AIG, a group including the Houston-based company El Paso Energy Corporation), and the African Development Bank (ADB). ----------- "South African connections" (Re: The American Spectator Requests Help) From Fedora | 11/05/2005 11:44:05 PM PST
While [Joe] Wilson was pursuing his foreign investment ventures, he also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2000 Presidential campaign of Al Gore. A company the Gore family had a long-term relationship with, Occidental Petroleum, shared business interests with [Mohammed Hussein] Alamoudi-affiliated companies in Africa and the Middle East, and employed as Vice President for Middle East business Odeh Aburdene,24 who shared a complex network of relationships with Rock Creek’s Elias Aburdene and Joseph Wilson--notably, all three [Odeh Aburdene, Elias Aburdene and Joseph Wilson] contributed to Arab-American Congressional Caucus leader Nick Rahall,25 who supported Muslim lobbying groups linked to terrorists and opposed military action in Iraq.26
Abdurahman Alamoudi also contributed to Rahall, and sat on the steering committee of Arab Americans for Clinton/Gore '96 along with his associate James Zogby, who later advised Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign.27 Wilson had worked as an aide to Gore from 1985 to 1986 and had developed a friendly relationship with him. Wilson says Gore was the first person outside the State Department to contact him expressing support when he was caught in Iraq in the middle of the diplomatic crisis leading up to the Gulf War.------ "What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa: Joseph Wilson's Silent Partners ," via 112 posted on 04/24/2006 2:25:40 PM PDT by Fedora
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) -- A congressman skeptical of the need for U.S. military action against Iraq says he is flying to Baghdad, hoping to answer questions about a possible invasion and seeking a meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., said he wants to reassure Iraqi citizens that Americans are ``not out to wage war for war's sake.'' ``I'm not going as a secretary of state,'' Rahall said Tuesday. ``I'm not going as a weapons inspector. And I'm not calling upon this administration to do one thing or another. I just have a lot of questions.''
Rahall, who was to leave early Wednesday evening, said he would tell the Iraqi president he should allow United Nations weapon inspectors ``unconditional and unfettered access to his country so we can find answers to a lot of questions the Congress has.''
Among others going is former Sen. James Abourezk, a South Dakota Democrat.
The trip is sponsored by the Institute for Public Accuracy, a group that says it seeks to foster the point of view of ``those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks.''
Rahall said the group, which has been arranging the trip for months, has meetings scheduled with Foreign Minister Naji Sabril [* My note : aka Naji Sabri aka Curveball... who was apparently a paid CIA source-- See CIA's Tyler Drumheller's testimony, book deal and crticisms thereof] and other government leaders, as well as Scott Ritter, a former U.N. weapons inspector who has become a critic of Washington's Iraq policies. President Bush is campaigning for support in Congress and abroad for military action against the Hussein regime, as his father did more than a decade ago.----- "West Virginia Congressman to Fly to Iraq," Associated Press , Wednesday, September 11, 2002
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the period before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Naji Sabri, was a secret paid source of the CIA, "NBC Nightly News" reported on Monday. Citing unnamed current and former U.S. intelligence officials, NBC said Sabri provided details of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be more accurate than CIA estimates.
Intelligence sources said Sabri was paid more than $100,000 through an intermediary in a September 2002 deal brokered by the French, NBC reported.
Sabri may have thought he was working with the French, but some U.S. intelligence officials believe he knew it was the CIA, NBC said. The CIA questioned Sabri through a go-between [* My note: wonder who this was...] about Saddam's WMD program, the report said.
According to the intelligence sources, Sabri indicated that Saddam had no significant weapons program and that while the deposed Iraqi leader desperately wanted a nuclear bomb it would have taken more time for him to build one than the CIA's several-months-to-a-year estimate, NBC reported.
Both the CIA and Sabri said Saddam had stockpiled chemical weapons, but both were wrong, NBC said.
WMD were the main justification for President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq three years ago, but no such weapons have been found.
Citing intelligence sources, NBC said the CIA's brief relations with Sabri ended after he refused to defect to the United States. The agency had been hoping for a public relations coup, the network said.
Sabri was not named among the former senior Iraqi officials on the U.S. most-wanted list of 55 Iraqi fugitives.
NBC said it found Sabri teaching at a university in the Middle East, but was not revealing his location for security reasons.
Sabri declined to be interviewed or to comment as did the CIA, NBC said, adding that the agency also would not say why it did not listen to Sabri's warnings. A CIA representative had no comment on the report.----------Saddam's foreign minister was CIA source: NBC via Yahoo , Posted on 03/20/2006 6:13:32 PM PST by AZRepublican
In a "60 Minutes" interview on April 23, Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA's Europe division, made a sensational charge. He claimed that President Bush and his White House ignored intelligence before the invasion of Iraq indicating that Saddam Hussein had no had weapons of mass destruction. On the CBS-TV show, and in subsequent media interviews that appeared throughout the world, Drumheller said that the White House was excited about the fact that the CIA was getting information straight from Naji Sabri, the then Iraqi foreign minister. But when the White House found out this source was reliably saying that Saddam had no WMD, Bush and his White House weren't interested. [* Drumheller's lying- Naji Sabri said Iraq was STOCKPILING WMD. He did NOT say Iraq had no WMD- so who is paying Drumheller? Who arranged his book deal?] "He [Sabri] told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program," Drumheller told correspondent Ed Bradley in a segment called "A Spy Speaks Out." "So in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam's inner circle that he didn't have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?" Bradley asked. "Yes," Drumheller said, proclaiming himself outraged. According to Drumheller, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice brushed aside the CIA report on what Sabri had to say because "the policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy." Drumheller saw "how the Bush administration time and time again welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not," Ed Bradley said in the introduction to the "60 Minutes" piece. Now it appears Drumheller's claim was untrue, according to the findings of a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation. Rather than undercutting the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq, Sabri's account shows how well-founded the intelligence on Saddam's weapons program appeared to be. Ironically, just as Drumheller claimed that Bush ignored the truth about Iraq, the media have ignored the documentation in the Senate report demolishing Drumheller's claim. An addenda to the Senate report on postwar findings about Iraq's WMD program says all the operational documents relating to Sabri indicate he told the CIA just the opposite of what Drumheller claimed. The Senate report refers to Sabri as a source with direct access to Saddam Hussein and his inner circle but does not name him.
"Both the operations cable and the intelligence report prepared for high-level policy-makers [based on interrogation of the source] said that while Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapon, ‘he was aggressively and covertly developing such a weapon,'" the Senate report said.
The documents said "Iraq was producing and stockpiling chemical weapons," according to the addendum, signed by Sens. Pat Roberts, R–Kan., Orrin G. Hatch, R–Utah, and Saxby Chambliss, R–Ga. Iraq's weapon of last resort was mobile launched chemical weapons, which would be fired at enemy forces and Israel, the CIA documents said.
Moreover, there is "not a single document relating to this case which indicates that the source said Iraq had no WMD programs," the addenda said. "On the contrary, all of the information about this case so far indicates that the information from this source was that Iraq did have WMD programs."
What the source said was consistent with the CIA's October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the report said. The report added: "The committee is still exploring why the former chief/EUR's public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation." ...--------http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700681/posts
FRANCE gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with American officials, documents unearthed in the wreckage of the Iraqi foreign ministry have revealed. The first Iraqi files to emerge documenting French help for the regime show that Paris shared with Baghdad the contents of private transatlantic meetings and diplomatic traffic from Washington. The information, said in the files to have come partly from "friends of Iraq" at the French foreign ministry, kept Saddam abreast of every development in American planning and may have helped him to prepare for war. One report warned of an American "attempt to involve Iraq with terrorism" as "cover for an attack on Iraq". Another, dated September 25, 2001 from Naji Sabri, the Iraqi foreign minister, to Saddam's palace, was based on a briefing from the French ambassador in Baghdad and covered talks between presidents Jacques Chirac and George W Bush. Chirac was said to have been told that America was "100% certain Osama Bin Laden was behind the September 11 attacks and that the answer of the United States would be decisive". The report also gave a detailed account of American attitudes towards Saddam amid anxiety in Iraq that the country might soon become a target of American reprisals.
"Information available to the French embassy in Washington suggests that there is no intention on the part of the Americans to attack Iraq, but that matters might change quickly," said the document from folders marked France 2001 found by The Sunday Times. "According to French information, a discussion about Iraq is going on in Washington between [secretary of state] Colin Powell and the Zionist [Paul] Wolfowitz [the deputy defence secretary]. Powell was against a military attack on Iraq whereas Wolfowitz was in favour of a strong military operation against Iraq." The report noted that "the Israelis have informed the French ambassador in Washington that they have no evidence of Iraqi involvement in the attacks". ----------- "Dossier reveals France briefed Iraq on US plans ," by Matthew Campbell, The Sunday Times , April 27, 2003
It is my thesis that the elected representatives from a district actually DO represent the opinions of the majority of the voters in that district. So from New Orleans, what you would expect is a black hypocritical crook who whines about race because of his own personal shortcomings -just like the lazy welfare queen Katrina "refugees" who were crying about how they got short shrift because they were black.
My opinion is that the majority of voters in his district are either crooked scumbags too or if not it is only because they're too lazy to steal. And why should they steal on their own when they can get the government to do it for them? (of course that is my opinion of most big city democrats, so what can I say)
How could this happen? Miss America promised us that the democrat party would be pure as a fresh fallen snow.
I’m still waiting for Ms. Nancy to drain her end of the swamp...probably won’t happen until the 4th Thursday in a month where the name of the month does not contain the letter ‘R’...on a day that does not end in ‘y’. :)
How ‘bout we just arrest him and put him in prison? Can he perform his duties from there?
This is the democrat party Culture of Corruption, plain and simple.
ROFL You mean Blanco? Your sarcasm is beautiful.
SEPTEMBER 2002 : (RAHALL & ABOUREZK TRIP TO IRAQ COSPONSORED BY FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA) --Mandela cosponsored [Dem congressmen] Rahall and Abourezk's 9/2002 trip to Iraq -----via FR's Fedora
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Occidental Petroleum's Vice President for Middle East business Odeh Aburdene, shares a complex network of relationships with Rock Creek’s Elias Aburdene and Joseph Wilson--notably, all three contributed to Congressman Nick Rahall ----- "What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa: Joseph Wilson's Silent Partners ," via 112 posted on 04/24/2006 2:25:40 PM PDT by Fedora | To 111
Absolutely right. There's no difference between the dims in N.O. and the dims in D.C. who reelected Marion Barry.
They took their ever-loving time on an indictment didn’t they? Ok, Queen Pelosi, where’s your demand for Congressman William Jefferson, D-LA’s resignation?
I’m still disgusted how he attempted to enable William Jefferson, Democrat-LA, to get away with his fig leaf improper seizure claim.
[His home in New Orleans was searched at the same time, but that is not where the cash was stashed.]
IIRC, the freezer was originally in his NO home and he had the NG remove it during the aftermath of the flooding from Katrina.
Subsequently, it was taken to his DC office and that is where the Feds. found it (again). I believe they knew the money was in there from surveillance done earlier.
[It was even announced at the news conference today that the money was found at his Washington DC residence.]
Yes, but isn’t this the same freezer that was taken from his NO home/office by th NG? Right??
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