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To: DrC
From my files:

Wilson (as Ambassador to Gabon) had/has connections to the Gabon Chief of State, Omar Bongo, who was the chief African ally of the French oil company TotalFinaElf, a major beneficiary of the Oil-for-Food bribes. Prior to the Iraq War, they had a contract with Saddam's regime worth an estimated 12.5 to 27.0 billion barrels of oil reserves. Also he had connections via the Middle East Institute and Rock Creek, both of which are Saudi controlled.

Wilson's wife Jacqueline was also apparently a lobbyist for Bongo and it seems Wilson was pretty chummy with Saddam's weapons buyer, having dinner with him on the eve that Kuwait was invaded in 1990. She is now an advisor to Bongo, her picture from a 2005 conference can be found here That makes it very clear that there are connections to oil-for-food. No wonder Wilson can afford his lifestyle.

Source: Posts 21 and 22

73 posted on 11/22/2005 8:27:52 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter
Thanks!--I was looking forward to hearing what you got out of it :-) I did only scratch the surface of Cannistraro's background and possible involvement. He was up to a bunch of stuff throughout the 1990s which I feel need review to put him in perspective. I'm very curious about his relationship to MacMichael in particular.

On Oil-for-Food links, I had a whole section on that I cut out of the final draft due to length/readability considerations. I will try to sum that up separately sometime.

On your analysis of the forgeries and other Niger reports, you may find the reproductions on these links useful to review if you haven't seen them:

http://cryptome.org/niger-docs-lr.htm

http://cryptome.org/niger-docs.pdf

http://cryptome.org/niger-docs2.htm

http://cryptome.org/niger-docs3.htm

82 posted on 11/22/2005 11:00:23 AM PST by Fedora
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