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| ...Chirac's secret £30m bank account' |
| 2007-05-24 |
| Posted by:anonymous2u |
| #9 Good God. You have an incriminating bank account, so you call up the head of the spook department, point him to the docs, and ask him for help? What kind of idiot does that? Chirac is that kind of idiot. In 1969 he was tresaurer for George Pompidou's presidential campaign. Pompidou was lagging in teh polls so donators saw no reason to give to someone who was going to lose. That is when Chirac told Pompidou the Saudis had offered several suitcases full of money and he had accepted. Pompidou nearly had a heart attack (money from foreign power specially one not particularly palatable) and had the deal cancelled. (Not sure Chirac obeyed the order hower). Unfortunately Pompidou didn't terminate Chirac's carreer who by then was still unknown. Second example: He provided nuclear technology to Saddam despite the strong possibility that Saddam could use it against France, threaten other Arab countries with it and get a monopoly on oil (not in the intesrest of France) or proliferate it to other Arab countries (Saddam was panarabist) who could have been unfriendly to France. That is what he was ready to do in order to get a slighht improvement on France's foreign deficit. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-05-24 17:28 |
| #8 Wouldn't the head spook's first instinct be to feather his own nest with a little blackmail-worthy material? You're implying that French spookmasters are no different than American spookmasters? I'm shocked! Shocked, I say! Publicists: Your royalties from the book deal, sir. Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-05-24 13:57 |
| #7 Good God. You have an incriminating bank account, so you call up the head of the spook department, point him to the docs, and ask him for help? What kind of idiot does that? Wouldn't the head spook's first instict be to feather his own nest with a little blackmail-worthy material? And ol' Jack couldn't see that coming? Zut Alors! |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-05-24 12:19 |
| #6 Let me take a stab at it... Iraqi oil for food money? |
| Posted by: newc 2007-05-24 09:33 |
| #5 Around 50 milllion dolars in one account. PS: In his 12 years of presidency his total earnings as president were far inferior to 5 million dollars so even if we assume that he didn't spend a cent there are 45 millions who have materialized out of thin air. Thin iraki or saudi air. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-05-24 06:33 |
| #4 Just £30m? Hey, lighten up, it's his sushi chef's payroll account. The real money's in the Cayman Islands. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-24 04:54 |
| #3 touche. |
| Posted by: Danking70 2007-05-24 03:15 |
| #2 Just £30m? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-05-24 02:08 |
| #1 Oh, don't tell me someone is trying to besmirch the stellar and righteous record of Al-Shiraq now that he has stepped down. The manners, please, the manners. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-24 00:36 |