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| Samir Vincent: Sammy's man in Washington |
| 2005-01-28 |
| SAMIR VINCENT WAS VISITING BAGHDAD when Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. He had not lived in his native Iraq for some three decades, having left in 1958 for the United States and a track-and-field career that would later land him in the Boston College Athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe Vincent's presence in Iraq was simply bad timing. Although Americans were not exactly hostages in the tense days after the invasion, they were not free to leave Iraq. So when Vincent, a naturalized citizen, and Illinois businessman Michael Saba managed to escape by taking a taxicab eight hours to the Jordanian border and hitchhiking the remaining 50 miles to Amman, their adventure was news. Washingtonians who read Keith Kendrick's Washington Post article about the trip, published August 15, 1990, probably gave it little thought. In hindsight, however, the story seems to offer the first clues to the events that culminated last week in Vincent's admission that he had accepted millions of dollars to work as an agent for Saddam in the United States. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 August 1990, right after the invasion of Kuwait,...... Vincent approached Col. Carl Bernard, USMC Ret., and former CIA director Richard Helms with an offer from Saddam Hussein. But the first Bush administration rejected these and all other overtures, insisting on an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.) Here's what I don't understand...one does not deliver a message re: terms of war without being one's "agent". So, regardless of whatever sugar-coating is put on top of it, it was clearly known back then that he was a foreign agent working for Sadaam. Right? So how is it that he was able to work these deals on oil-for-food with out anyone realizing what was going on, for so long? Our press, for all of it's bluster about how the blogosphere doens't have "reporters", may have "reporters", but they completely missed the biggest events of the latter 20th Century. The rise of Islamism, with a HUGE Jihad army forming world-wide .... UN Oil for food scandal - biggest scandal of the century and it operated right under their nose and all's they did was publish Saddam's press releases about how it was hurting "the children"TM. They are worse than dupes, they are tools. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-28 8:06:49 AM |