Barry Artiste Op/Ed
One can envision US Screenwriters upon reading this over the wire, frantically trying to figure out how to get a hastily written action movie script to Brad and Angie to do a Movie on this story, in what seems like a weird combo Watergate – Iran Contra affair.
Bush must be relieved to know, if this Hits the Fan, it will deflect some attention away from him as the World Derides him as a warmonger, when the French are going to be literally French Toast, as the trial and World opinion develops.
The Rwanda Massacre had many French allies from France protecting those Government leaders complicit in the Rwanda Massacre by offering the Killers safe passage out of Rwanda with French officials. One can surmise this oil for arms is just the tip of the iceberg, now seen melting really, really fast as more info comes available in this French Soap Opera or Terror.
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/10/04/6973936-sun.html
Secret arms deals going to trial
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — The 468-page French indictment makes seamy reading: Secret arms deals feeding bloodshed in an oil-rich African country.
Envelopes of cash changing hands in a Paris mansion. A cast of defendants ranging from a debt-ridden tycoon to a Chinese opera singer.
Piece by piece, judicial investigators have spent seven years assembling a searing accusation that penetrates the shadows of a dirty global trade. Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet-made land mines poured by the planeful into Angola as it fought a civil war.
In exchange, Angolan oil flowed to multinational companies. And a pair of savvy negotiators allegedly reaped millions of undeclared dollars in profits.
Their stacks of cash were then doled out to French and Angolan officials given secret code names, in exchange for political and commercial favours, according to the version laid out by French authorities. On Monday, the case goes to trial in a Paris court.
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