Bump for Ted Maher to be freely and graciously returned in health and safety to his loving family and country.
......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen.
“Whoever it was has a long reach and is capable of organizing a daring, brutal and vindictive maneuver.” Henry Kissinger said in an interview in 1999.
Kissinger on videotape in "Who Killed the Billionaire?", DatelineNBC, November 21, 2000.
Edmond's friend agreed with me that getting Kissinger to elaborate on that remark would illuminate matters.
He advised that Edmond Safra and Henry Kissinger "moved in the same social circle and held each other in mutual respect".
At that time, Christopher Hitchens was to do an online chat on Brittanica.com to mark the release of his new book indicting Kissinger.
When Brittanica.com pulled out at the last minute, Hitchens commented online that "the Safra banking empire owns Brittanica.com".
I had been one of many complaining to the editor of Brittanica.com that all of its coverage of the Safra death was simply the parroting of the official smear and scapegoating of Ted Maher.
Its editor responded with the linguistic equivalent of an armpit fart.
Of note is that Kissinger sits on the current board of American Express, which in the eighties was successfully sued by Safra's attorney.
Amex, according to the Burroughs Vendetta, had floated false claims that Safra had been involved with Iran-Contra (see Robert Parry for update).
Lily's attorney Stanley Arkin had been involved in that suit per reports.
Lily's attorney Brendan Sullivan had defended Oliver North in Iran-Contra.
Terry Reed, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, SPI/Shapolski, 1994, places North at the head of Operation Donation, the systematic theft of twin-engine planes for use by Contra fighters.
Arkin's defense of Natasha Kagalovsky of BONY, and her marriage to Konstantin, former Russian IMF representative have been noted earlier.
It would appear that Kissinger, whatever his crimes per Hitchens, would know about having a "long reach", and being "cruel and vindictive".
Again, the stakes are very high in a game where the players leave nothing to chance.
Security was stripped and plausibly deniable "lone nut" scapegoat is the favorite gambit of the champions.