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Old 13-07-05, 04:00 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Sinner
He was the perfect person to work in Niger.
my point was that as a career diplomat he would've been posted in a multitude of places - which your link makes clear - and he would have had solid contacts in many of them, not just niger. he may have been qualified to investigate niger, but he was undoubtedly qualified to do the same in stutgart, bahgdad or a host of other hot spots. nothing suggests he asked his wife to pull some strings to get him sent there, again, why? now it's so he could work on a gold deal? he could do that anytime...she continues to deny sending him (apparently so he could wrongly, although it turned out rightly, criticize a president he had political problems with) which is the basis of the right's smear campaign.

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