British businessman Neil Heywood, left, is suspected to have been murdered by Gu Kailai, middle, the wife of Chinese leader Bo Xilai, right. (Reuters)
Posted on 04/22/2012 2:37:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Mr Obama was briefed immediately on the suspected poisoning of the 41 year-old, which Chinese officials are linking to Mr Heywood’s powerful political allies, when American diplomats were told of the murder allegation.
Gu Kailai, Mr Heywood’s former business partner and the wife of Bo Xilai, a senior politician who had been tipped for the highest political office, is suspected of ordering the Briton’s murder in a case at the centre of a political storm in China. The couple have disappeared from sight as the Communist Party attempts to regain stability.......
Mr Obama was informed of suspicions over Mr Heywood’s death within hours of a Chinese police chief walking into an American consulate and telling officials that the Briton was murdered.
Security guards surrounded the consulate as diplomats sought advice from their superiors in Washington.
Mr Obama learnt that Mr Heywood was being described as a murder victim before British officials told William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, about the development.
Sources in Washington last night said that for the American president to be so quickly informed of the death of a British citizen was almost unprecedented.
“This was a very high official with extraordinary intelligence,” John Tkacik, who worked for the state department in China for 20 years, said of Wang Lijun, the head of Chongqing police.
“In all of my experience, I can’t recall its equal.”
America is increasingly being drawn into the claims of murder and corruption that have rocked the Chinese establishment.......
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The son of Gu Kailai and Bo Xilai (Bo Guagua) a student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is believed to be secreting laundered money from Chinese and American authorities.
The Chinese police chief, Wang, who went to the American consulate to tell them Heywood had been murdered was turned over to the Chinese state police. Some are questioning why he was not give asylum.
This is a bizarre story. Obama is clearly lined up on the side of the bad guys (quelle surprise!).
They hold his IOU’s they own him.
Why would a Chinese police chief go to the American Consulate instead of the British Consulate to report the murder of a British businessman?
And why would the Americans then turn him over to the Chinese state police?
There already is a Wiki page up on the police chief “informant” (given to the Chinese state police by the American Consulate in China).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lijun
Democratic Party corruption springs to mind — Arkansas to Chicago to D.C. and beyond. Your post is fitting.
I think Obama, in addition to being inept and running an inept government that lets us end up owing the ChiComs on a national basis, is also personally very corrupt and is making a bundle off being president. I don’t think that even Billy Jeff was that corrupt.
I hadn’t paid too much attention to this before. It’s becoming clear that I made a mistake. This story is getting FAR more interesting.
I suspect he made the mistake of thinking he’d get more protection from the Americans, probably because he knew of American involvement in the whole affair. But it backfired, obviously, since the American government clearly didn’t want attention being drawn to its involvement.
Actually, I don’t think it was the US per se, but rather certain persons in the government. I read somewhere - WSJ? - that Obama personally monitored this whole situation and that it was Obama’s personal decision to put Wang back on the street.
More on Bo, Heywood, Wang & Gu...ping
“Why would a Chinese police chief go to the American Consulate instead of the British Consulate to report the murder of a British businessman?”
Good question. Maybe because he didn’t trust them? Or maybe because he thought he needed a bigger player? Or maybe he thoght this was his ticket to the U.S.?
Any way you look at it, it was the biggest mistake of his life (aside from telling anyone what he knew). Had he gone to the Brits, he’d most likely be in British hands now.
Wow, excellent synopsis of the whole situation. I love Wiki! Even if they are wrong sometimes.
This article says that the son has hired his own secret security. I read several days ago (WSJ?) that he was taken into custody & being protected by U.S. agency (ICE? State Dept? can’t remember which).
Why didn’t Dubya investigate the Chinese infiltration into the Clinton Administration. Daddy was Ambassador to China. What are Romney’s connections to China? Will we finally have an administration that will stand up for America?
Many say that Neil Heywood was connected with MI6.
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