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I said-FYI someday it will be known that it was George Bush (H) who was responsible freeing Mandela & ending Apartheid. This happened by making Libya take ALL the responsibility for the Lockerbie crash.The CIA during Bush's presidency ensured The end of communism, Reagans legacy & built a mid eastern intelligence network that has protected us from serious nuclear attacks......
My friends response:What is the stance of Nelson Mandela about the show trial of the so-called Organizing Genius from Libya of the Lockerbie 747 downing ?
Nelson Mandela never believed for 1 minute in the storyline put out by GWB, Blair and their cronies. And he said so many timesThe Libyan Lockerbie Connection was a story of Libyan petrodollar recycling and getting Occidental Petroleum back into action in Libya, IMHO
Read this.....
Hammer's association with the Gore family
Occidental's coal interests were represented for many years by attorney and former U.S. Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Sr., among others. Gore, who had a long-time close friendship with Hammer, became the head of the subsidiary Island Creek Coal Company, upon his election loss in the Senate. Much of Occidental's coal and phosphate production was in Tennessee, the state Gore represented in the Senate, and Gore owned shares in the company. Former Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. received much criticism from environmentalists, when the shares passed to the estate after the death of Albert Gore Sr., and Albert Gore Jr. was a son and the executor of the estate.[28][29] Albert Gore Jr. did not exercise control over the shares, which were eventually sold when the estate closed.[30][31]
Hammer was very fond of Albert Gore Jr., and in 1984 under Hammer's guidance Gore Jr. sought Tennessee's senate office previously held by Howard Baker. Hammer supposedly promised Gore Sr. that he could make his son the president of the United States. It was under Hammer's encouragement and support that Gore Jr. sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1988.[32][33]
Kadhafi aides told US firms to pay Lockerbie bill: report
AFP ^ | March 24, 2011
Posted on March 24, 2011 5:35:34 PM CDT by Tailgunner Joe
Moamer Kadhafi's aides in 2009 demanded US firms make huge payments to Tripoli to help foot its $1.5-billion settlement for Lockerbie bombing victims or risk losing lucrative contracts in Libya, The New York Times reported Thursday. ....
The extraordinary request by the Kadhafi regime and the Times report highlight Libya's culture of corruption and political patronage that has swelled since 2004, when the United States re-opened trade relations with Tripoli and multinationals scrambled to exploit Libya's vast oil reserves.
Kadhafi and sons manipulated US firms eager to operate in the North African nation, reportedly amassing a multi-billion-dollar stash that has helped the embattled regime stay in power, even as Western airstrikes pound Libyan forces and rebels mount a challenge to Kadhafi's four-decade rule.
"Libya is a kleptocracy in which the regime -- either the Kadhafi family itself or its close political allies -- has a direct stake in anything worth buying, selling or owning," one State Department cable read.
Business interest in Libya surged in 2008 when Tripoli reached a settlement over the country's role in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The Times said at least a dozen major US firms sought to gain a foothold in Libya, including Boeing, Raytheon, ConocoPhilips, Occidental, Caterpillar and Halliburton. ....
Several industry executives and a person close to the settlement, all of whom declined to be identified, said the payments went through, but they declined to name the firms, the Times said.
Some major companies struck expensive deals with the government. In 2008, US-based Occidental Petroleum shelled out a $1.0 billion "signing bonus" to Libya as part of a 30-year deal, while Canadian oil giant Petro-Canada made a similar payment in 2007, the paper said, citing cables and company officials.
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