Posted on 11/21/2005 2:28:31 PM PST by Fedora
Thanks for the additional info.
Fedora, something has been eating at me regarding the Rock Creek Connection. First Wilson was an assistant to Al Gore in 1985-1986 and the two became friends. Al Gore through his father had many contacts with Armand Hammer and thus Occidental Petroleum. And I would gather it was through Occidental Petroleum that Wilson dame to know both the Alamoudi family and Elias Aburdene. The latter must have hired him at Rock Creek. In any case, the Wilson tie to Democrats goes way back, something that is usually not mentioned in stories on him, and he must have been greatly disappointed when Gore lost the presidency and, who knows, figured to get even.
Or possibly through his contact with Scowcroft and the Turkish embassy, since Aburdene also had contacts with business circles that may have run through those channels. But yes, there are a lot of indicators of Wilson being on good terms with Gore. His book mentions that he kept in touch with Gore after leaving his staff, and that Gore called him to support him during the Iraqi hostage crisis at the beginning of the Gulf War. He also credits Gore with putting in a good word for him with Clinton when he was first introduced to Clinton and Berger while being considered for his NSC post. And Occidental had a stake in Wilson's African diplomatic activity, which I touched on a bit in this part of the article--some deeper digging into this might be interesting in relation to the point you raise:
Interaction between US oil companies and Elf also figured into Wilson’s assignment in Gabon from 1992 to 1995. In Gabon one of Wilson’s priorities was to encourage President Bongo to support increased investment by US oil companies in Gabon’s oil industry, up to then dominated by France via Elf.22 Occidental Petroleum, linked to the financial interests of then-Vice President Al Gore, soon won several contracts in Gabon, and Occidental and other US oil companies also began increasing their influence in other parts of Africa. This increased US presence in Africa’s oil industry provoked rivalry with Elf in Gabon and elsewhere.23 The French ambassador to Gabon Louis Dominici began encouraging the press to report that Wilson was an agent of US interests and an enemy of Gabon’s regime, which Wilson countered by cultivating closer ties with Bongo.24 Wilson worked with Bongo to advance the peace process in Angola and to press for human rights reforms in Equatorial Guinea,25 another emerging oil producer where France was competing for influence with Spain.26
Meanwhile Bongo was also active in events in Congo involving Elf interests. In August 1992, just as Wilson began his assignment in Gabon, there was a regime change in Congo. With Soviet influence retreating from the region, Congo’s population was calling for Bongo’s cousin Sassou-Nguesso to allow free elections. Bongo and the French, seeking to give the appearance of allowing reforms without actually losing control, decided to play both sides by financing the Presidential campaign of Sassou-Nguesso’s rival Pascal Lissouba. But in a move unanticipated by the French, Lissouba, short on cash to pay his civil servants and troops, cut a deal with Occidental for funding in exchange for granting Occidental $150 million in future production rights. Alarmed at the prospect of Occidental competing for one of Elf’s most vital oil supplies, the French pressured Lissouba to cancel the deal with Occidental. After Lissouba cancelled the deal, Elf and French intelligence continued providing him ostensible support against Sassou-Nguesso’s forces, using La French Intercontinental Bank for Africa (FIBA), which was jointly owned by Bongo, to help Belgian arms dealer Jacques Monsieur launder payments for weapons sales from Russia and Iran to Lissouba’s supporters. However at the same time Elf was arming Lissouba, it was also secretly arming Sassou-Nguesso for a return to power. With assistance from Angola, supported by the French and the Clinton administration, Sassou-Nguesso overthrew Lissouba and became President again in 1997, during Wilson’s term as NSC Senior Director of African Affairs.27
When you add Jacqueline Wilson's later lobbying services for Gabon to this background, you wonder just what was going on here.
I just refreshed myself on the 1998 Embassy bombings and found a bombshell, what a turn of words.
The criminal investigation into the bombings ended with three hundred counts against the defendants including the utilization of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against American targets, conspiracy to kill officers and employees of the U.S. government, conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals, and conspiracy to destroy U.S. buildings by the use of explosives. Would either of you have any idea why car bombs are termed WMD under clinton but NOT categorized as such under Bush?
I'll be lost in here awhile : )
Thanks!
Oh and BTW, why do you suppose Patrick Fitzgerald seemingly doesn't know what you know? Here we are spending gazillions of taxpayer $$$ on his "leak investigation" that has charged no one for leaks. I wish he would charge some folks with leaking. Actually treason or sedition would be more like it. But clearly, that wouldn't reach to Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, and certainly not the President. Although the IPS Left-types are trying to spin the President's partial declassification of certain top-secret documents -- which is his privilege -- as a common, garden-variety "leak." What a disgraceful dog-and-pony show Fitzgerald's investigation has become! I'm beginning to think he is, if not outright complicit in this would-be coup d'etat, then at least sympathetic to it.
Then again, maybe Bill and Hill are blackmailing him. :^)
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Congratulations on this superb effort!
I can't read all that without getting a headache. I don't know how close this comes to the truth, but I give you an A+ FOR EFFORT.
I was still giving Fitzgerald the benefit of the doubt at the time I wrote this last fall, as I recall. Since then he's removed any doubt in my mind that he's corrupt and serving as someone's hired gun. Some links I'd recommend for a critique of his tactics:
Patrick Fitzgerald—A Tale of Two Cases and a Congressman
Thanks; sorry about the headache, LOL--I'll try to make the next one shorter :-)
I'll await it eagerly. You are doing a great job.
The 1993 WTC car bombs included an unusual feature- cyanide. The terrorists hoped the cyanide would kill more people but instead, their bomb blast burned it up.
So many details, so little time.
I did it! I read the whole article (with exception to skimming some of the long-winded blather from Wilson's book). Your research is inspiring and for once, the whole Wilson fiasco makes sense!
I was surprised to learn he was behind the Clinton Africa trip. It's another revealing piece of the puzzle. It figures that Wilson's finances are "murky," because that's the Clinton's expertise or perhaps trademark is a better description. Operating above the law and rationalizing their actions with supreme hubris.
Oh, the tangled web we weave, when others we are trying to deceive....
I suspect Fizzy schick is just an act in the Dog and Pony Show.. The entire show is on a grander scale can Fitz can/could provide.. Foggy Bottom has become burlesque.. with all kinds of RAP artists and not a small amount of bling..
Thanks for the links, Fedora. I'll check them out. Keep up the great work.
I agree, hosepipe. I'm deeply alarmed and distressed to think that OBL is right: that the two best tools he has in his arsenal with which to prosecute the Islamofascist terror war on America and the the West more generally are (1) the oil price; and (2) America's domestic political Left.
It was very kind of him to point this out for us. We ought to take due warning, and take the use of these tools away from him. Long term, a winning strategy for America would seem to require tactics aimed at neutralizing both.
Indeed, it appears the Islamofascists have a Fifth Column operating out of CIA, the State Department, and probably Justice as well. And it's not that these folks have sympathy for the aims of the Islamofascists (assuming they are rational enough to understand the Jihadi's own public statements). The fact is they wouldn't like life under sharia any better than the rest of us. Their problem seems to be they have been so blinded by hatred of this president that they are no longer rational human beings (indeed, if ever they were -- I don't think Marxists, or Institute for Policy Studies types have ever been playing with a full deck anyway).
For one thing, IPS-type policy wonks, and the staffs of, say, the NYT, WP, the Nation, and broadcast television, seem to think they sit atop Mount Olympus, and may freely prescribe for the rest of us all particulars of what we are to think and how we are to live. Where I think they're nutz is they seem to believe they can exclude themselves from the effects of their own policy prescriptions, that they are somehow insulated from the resulting unpleasantness.
As i said, these people are just not rational.
President Bush should have cleaned out all the Clinton holdovers when he entered office. They have undermined him at every turn. [I wouldn't be the least surprised to discover they're actually ultimately being run by Bill Clinton, a natural-born mafioso if ever I saw one.]
Perhaps now that this is becoming ever more clear, the President will now do what needs to be done: Clean house of the rats and termites that infest his administration, who work continually to undermine the national interest, aided and abetted by their collusion with a thoroughly corrupt, thoroughly like-minded MSM. And if any are found to have violated his oath of office/broken the law, prosecute the be-jeebers out of him. Or her.
Thanks for writing, guy!
I don't blame ya there, LOL. Thanks :-)
Yes, these are as essential to his strategy as terrorism per se, IMO. They might be considered economic terrorism and political terrorism, with violent terrorism forming a third prong of a single attack.
Well said! Thank you so very much for the outstanding essay-post!
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