Friday, December 22, 2006

More trouble for Dick Cheney?

Larisa Alexandrovna is following some high-level machinations in the oil business. Along the way, she has discovered that Haliburton and French company Technip bribed officials pursuant to a Nigerian enterprise. From a Truthout piece published three years ago:
It's within this new judicial framework that the Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke is conducting his investigations and the Paris court contemplates an eventual indictment of the present United States Vice President, Richard Cheney, in his capacity as former CEO of Halliburton. The investigations concern 180 million dollars of commissions paid on the occasion of a gas complex bid in Nigeria.
Three years later, we still have no indictment. Larisa asks:
What keeps coming back to mind when I read this is just what Joe Wilson may have uncovered in Niger that would make Cheney so eager to silence him? Could these things be related?
Yes, Niger and Nigeria are two different countries, but a relationship between the two tales may nonetheless exist. Larisa has more, and she does not pretend to have tied the loose threads into a cohesive narrative.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

yes don't worry that niger and nigeria are two different countries and especially those loose threads, it's not like were talking about 911 here folks.
sheesh, talk about picking and choosing