GERTLER’S BLING BANG TORAH GANG
(part one)
keith harmon snow
www.allthingspass.com
7 February 2008
Maurice Templesman is one of the top funders of
Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. Templesman was the
unofficial ambassador to the
For Israeli-American Dan
Gertler, business in blood drenched
Emaxon Finance Corp. has
apparently out-maneuvered diamond competitors, especially the big rivals
Energem and De Beers. Energem is one of the many shady mining companies
connected to Anthony Teixeira, a Portuguese born businessman now residing in
Canadian-based Energem,
formerly DiamondWorks, is owned by British mercenary Tony Buckingham and its
director/shareholders include Mario and Tony Teixeira, J.P. Morgan, and
Gertler’s partner Israeli-American Beny Steinmetz (50%).[4]
Through subsidiary Branch Energy, the Energem-DiamondWorks gang has perpetuated
war in 11 African countries.[5]
In December 2007, Energem re-launched itself on the London Stock Market with
the newly laundered image of a renewable energy company. Regarding diamonds, it
said only it “had decided to give up exploration rights in the
Gertler and partners like
Beny and Danny Steinmetz, Nir Livnat, Chaim Leibovitz and Yaakov Neeman run a
hornet’s nest of companies involved in African hotspots, including: Dan Gertler
International (DGI), Steinmetz Global Resources, International Diamond
Industries, NIKANOR and Global Enterprises Corporate.
“Dan Gertler is ‘the new kid
on the block,’” writes Yossi Melman in
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
“In the diamond industry,”
Melman wrote, “Gertler is considered something of an odd bird. He maintains few
ties with the other merchants and is not very sociable... Alongside his
business affairs, most of his energy is channeled into matters of faith. He is
a donor to religious institutions and from time to time makes a pilgrimage to
the rabbi he most admires, Rabbi David Abuhatzeira, from Nahariya, in order to
consult with him and receive his blessing. Gertler is surrounded mostly by
religious people and laces his speech liberally with praise to God.” [9]
In 2003, Condoleeza Rice,
then Assistant to President Bush for National Security Affairs, introduced Dan Gertler
and Chaim Leibovitch to
When Dan Gertler and Chaim Leibovitch
and their friends visit the luxury Gertler villa in Lumumbashi, the capital of
The average income for Congolese
citizens each year—if they survive it—is about $95. Shootings at mining
facilities and diamond mines are common, land is stolen from Congolese people,
strikes are crushed by security forces that companies are partnered with, and black
overseers of state terror routinely arrest and torture any vocal opposition—and
sometimes disappear them—in support of white bosses. The Société Minière de Bakwange—MIBA—and the diamond fields of Mbuji-Mayi
in
After a century of
exploitation and slavery, we find MIBA consistently withholding payment of
salaries to starving Congolese laborers and middle managers for months at a
time. April and May 2007 saw strikes and protests leading to the Kabila
government’s arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of trade union organizers
like Leon Ngoy Bululu; police have also shot protestors.[14]
So-called ‘illegal’ diamond workers—disenfranchised local Congolese people
forced into “criminal” activities to survive—were summarily executed on MIBA
concessions in Mbuji-Mayi. MIBA security guards have also been sniping
unemployed diamond miners.[15]
Meanwhile, Dan Gertler’s
kosher meals depart
“Kosher does not mean that a
Rabbi blesses the food,” Rabbi Betolila corrected me, “but rather that the food
was supervised by a Rabbinical Thora [sic] authority who sees that the
ingredients were in accordance with the laws of Kashrut expressed in the Bible
(Leviticus and Deuteronomy).” [17]
Dan Gertler often flies
people into
The Gertler, Steinmetz and
Templesman interests are advanced in part through the support of the Committee
of the Jewish Community of Kinshasa—le
Comité de la Communauté Israélite—that is tightly coordinated with the
power structure in
From June 26-30, 2007, the Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa
received a visit from the Israeli Ambassador Yaakov Revah, director of the
Africa Department of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Revah also flew
to Lumumbashi for meetings with Dan Gertler and his agents, including Moishe
(Moses) Katumbi, the Governor of Katanga, and they most likely enjoyed a lovely,
$23,000 kosher meal sent from the Chabad in Kinshasa.[19]
The Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa maintains very intimate political
relations with President Joseph Kabila’s PPRD party, the People's Party for
Reconstruction and Democracy. On March 1, 2006, in a formal ceremony, the
President of the Communaute Israelite de Kinshasa, Ashlan Piha, was awarded the
THOU SHALT NOT COVET
Before his assassination on
January 16, 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila—the President of the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC)—made a deal with the Gertler gang that would play out
in favor of the current President Joseph Kabila and, it seems, be a central
factor in relation to both Congo’s ongoing war and the bloody warlord’s battle in
Kinshasa in March 2007.[20]
Back in 2000, former
Congolese president Laurent Kabila offered a monopoly on Congolese diamonds,
and 88% of the proceeds, to Gertler’s International Diamond Industries (IDI) in
exchange for Israeli military assistance to his new government.[21]
Top Congolese military officials apparently flew to
The original Gertler-Kabila
deal fell through after Laurent Kabila was assassinated for not cooperating
with the Great White Fathers of industry (January 2001), but Gertler and
Leibovitch and their disciples formed another company, Dan Gertler
International, and advanced their Congo plan.[23]
By 2002 Gertler’s company was the leading exporter of Congolese gems,
controlling a diamond mining franchise worth about $
In 2003, the mighty Congolese
diamond parastatal Societe Miniere De
Bakwanga (MIBA)—which has been forever controlled by the Great White Fathers
in
Security for mining
operations in
Dan Gertler and Philippe de
Moerloose were, reportedly, the only two white men who attended the wedding of
Joseph Kabila and the two clearly share interests in “security” provided by
Overseas Security Services
(OSS) operations are apparently grounded in the experience of top expatriate
security operatives formerly involved with the biggest security firm in
Mobutu’s
Emaxon Finance International
is a real gem, one of these octopuses of mining tangled up with interlocking
companies and subsidiaries based in specious geographical offshore “tax havens”
that work to shield from prosecution people who are responsible for money
laundering, weapons and drugs operations, assassinations and other terrorism.
NIKANOR is registered as an
Isle of Man (UK) company, an offshore tax haven that helps to conceal criminal
activities and maximize profits. NIKANOR directors include Dan Kurtzer, former
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
Back in 2001, when the
Gertler enterprises surfaced in dirty diamond deals, public relations was
handled by Lior Chorev, the “Special Strategic and Communications Consultant”
to International Diamond Industries (IDI), and Chorev continued in this role to
support Dan Gertler businesses.[32]
Today, Lior Chorev is partnered with the brothers Yuval and Eyal Arad as
director-owners of the Israeli marketing and public relations firm, ARAD
Communications.[33]
“We do work for Mr. Gertler
on some of his business issues,” said Lior Chorev.[34]
Dan Gertler
is close to Israeli politicians, especially Avigdor Lieberman, head of the
right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, and he is very close to diamantaire Beny Steinmetz, a good friend of Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert. Gertler’s inseperable friend,
Chaim Leibovitz, is also very close to Lieberman, and was “a regular fixture”
in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offices.[38]
Beny Steinmetz is considered
to be one of the richest billionaires in
Seems Dan Gertler’s land
grabs and exclusion in Congo have a lot in common with the current crimes
against humanity being committed by Israel through its illegal partition in the
Middle East. On January 3, 2008, the Jerusalem Post reported that Lior
Chorev was an integral part of past Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s advisers, and
he was recently quoted to say that even though Sharon did not get to finalize
Israel’s final borders (he suffered a debilitating stroke in 2006), the route
of the security fence—which he decided—would ultimately serve as the basis for
the border and as Sharon's lasting legacy.[41]
“He felt he needed to set
the border because he didn't trust the younger generations,” Chorev was quoted
to say. “He knew the fence route by heart and the reason for every stretch of
land being on one side or the other.”[42]
In 2003, the U.N. Panel of
Experts on war in
Yaakov Neeman is a founding
partner of Herzog, Fox and Neeman, Tel Aviv, one of
One of the main objectives
of the Kimberley Process, and the
The Israeli-American
enterprises of the Gertler/Steinmetz gang have proliferated and today are major
shareholders or owners of diamond concessions in
The entire
military-industrial-prisons complex revolves around minerals like cobalt, niobium
and heterogenite (cobalt oxide), yet the truth about what happens to African
people in lands taken over by these mining companies is hidden by the corporate
media. More and more land is being stolen, more and more atrocities committed,
with less and less transparency, and less and less accountability, and fewer
and fewer voices for the voiceless. And, as usual, there are always a lot of
empty promises.
THOUGH SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS
Over the past fifty years,
elite Israeli nationals have perpetrated conflict and injustice in
Israeli trained shock troops
became Mobutu’s bodyguards, with Mossad advisers. According to a report by the
American Jewish Committee: after 1980 “Mossad agents, military emissaries, and
a small group of private businessmen… replaced diplomats as
Israeli
operatives and “businessmen” appear everywhere there is egregious suffering and
dispossession. Dan Gertler’s forays into the bloody world of diamonds involve
Israeli arms dealers Yair Klein, who is reportedly wanted by the
Retired Israeli Defense
Forces Colonel Yair Klein reportedly organized arms for diamonds networks in
The Steinmetz Group of companies
are also involved in the bloody diamond fields of
Like most mining mafias in
Africa, the Israeli octopus—organized crime syndicates, offshore subsidiaries,
interlocking directorships and affiliated mercenaries—has gripped the very
heart of Congo like an octopus grips and stuns its prey. Mining regulates the
pulse of
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
Beyond the intriguing Jewish
rivalry for diamonds in the heart of darkness, this tale takes a chilling turn
with the involvement of certain German firms and
These companies were all
behind the Jewish Holocaust. The infamous German Krupp firm is the industrial
corporation that collaborated with former CIA director Allen Dulles and former
Brown Brothers Harriman & Company (BBH) was the primary Wall Street
connection for German companies and the
A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD
There are no records or
statistics of the numbers of people brutalized or killed in the diamond or
cobalt mining areas, like
When Gertler and Steinmetz
and their buddies came to Congo it was soon clear that they had to challenge
Zimbabwean tycoons John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach—two cronies of dictator
Robert Mugabe involved in pillaging Congo and Zimbabwe for decades. The United
Nations Panel of Experts on DRC named both men for plundering copper and cobalt
from
On November 7, 2007 it was reported
that Dan Gertler was instrumental in putting together a deal in which Katanga Mining
Ltd. would buy rival NIKANOR for $2.1 billion and merge their adjacent mine
projects in
The CAMEC/Prairie joint
venture will exploit DRC’s Luita copper processing facility, develop the
Mukondo Mountain cobalt mine—called the world's richest cobalt mine—and work on
“other” exploration properties. Prairie is majority owned by the family of Dan
Gertler. CAMEC is connected to Zimbabwean/South African/British tycoon Billy Rautenbach.[62]
The DRC government effectively banned controversial Zimbabwean businessman
Billy Rautenbach
from the country by declaring him persona
non grata in July 2007, but this doesn’t seem to stop him from getting what
he wants. Rautenbach
is also wanted in
Rautenbach is a former motor
car rally driver who controls a business empire in Southern and Central Africa
through a
While there has been a lot
of Western media fanfare over the Kabila governments’ supposed “independent”
review of mining contracts, little substantive change can be expected.[64]
Structural factors exploit the Congolese people and lands and benefit white
businessmen, arms dealers, bankers, and their embraceable black agents. Big
business benefits from perception management articles well-placed in media to
give the impression that the international system is just, that there are
watchdogs, checks and balances.
However, while the DRC and
the World Bank present a propaganda front about their ostensible attention to mining
reform and the new mining code, NIKANOR—Mining Journal reports—“is in
the advantageous position of having entered into a post mining-code contract,
‘which makes us [NIKANOR] relatively comfortable’” [65]
In other words, the mining review is a sham, it may force some changes, but it
will be cosmetic at best.
Dan Gertler and the
Steinmetz Group’s partner Jewish-American Nir Livnat is also a director of
Anglovaal Mining with Rick and Brian Menell and Basil Hersov of the South
African Menell and Hersov dynasties.[66]
Hersov has been named as a beneficiary of fraud and racketeering involving
British BAE Systems weapons deals with shady offshore companies.[67]
The octopus of South African
connections is a story in itself, with links to top officials from
Rick Menell is a director of
Bateman Engineering—owned by Benny Steinmetz—the junior partner of the NIKANOR projects
in
Brian Menell, Nir Livnat’s
associate on the board of Anglovaal, is on the board of Energem (formerly
DiamondWorks) with Tony and Mario Teixeira. The Livnat connection ties Teixeira
into networks that have supported both Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba in
Brian Menell is also on the
board of First Africa Oil, which operates in seven African countries, and First
Africa Oil director John Bentley is a director of Osprey Oil and Gas, whose
directors include Carol Bell, a director of the Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan
Bank. Bentley is also on the board of Adastra Minerals—formerly America Mineral
Fields (AMF, AMFI, AMX), a company based in 1995 in Hope, Arkansas—and set up
by Robert Friedland and Max and Jean-Raymond Boulle, notable “friends of Bill”
Clinton. Since 1995, American Mineral
Fields has been involved in
The Gertler/Steinmetz
interests apparently curry huge favors with
Anvil Mining has been
involved in massacres in DRC.[74]
Anvil directors include former U.S. Ambassador Kenneth L. Brown, who served at
THOU SHALT NOT RAPE AND PLUNDER
Gertler/Steinmetz interests
have also been jostling for copper and cobalt concessions with Kinross-Forrest
Group. Gertler has bought up or invested heavily in companies just to close
them down. George Forrest also made the UN hit list of
Born as Entreprise Générale Malta Forrest, the Belgian Forrest interests
have been pillars of exploitation in
Katanga is the world’s
richest mining metropolis, part of the vast copper belt that stretches across
northern Zambia and southern Congo—and the home to unprecedented human misery
due to state orchestrated repression and communities overrun with toxic mining,
tuberculosis, cancers, immune disorders, racial discrimination and slavery. The
Zambian copperbelt concessions over the border involve many of the same companies
and interests mentioned above, and others.[78]
Workers and communities in
and around these mines suffer all the standard treatable maladies (typhoid,
malaria, tetanus, polio, malnutrition) as well. However, such stories are off
the agenda for the North American, European, Japanese, Australian and Israeli
media corporations providing the mainstay of English language indoctrination
meant to instill racial superiority and a vast ignorance and obliviousness that
leaves westerns populations shaking their heads and wringing their hands and
clicking their tongues, while all the while wondering “what is to be done?” It
does not cross people’s minds that their own hands are dirty, that their own
consciousness has been falsified, as all the raw materials from
The immediate capital
investment required for just one Gertler project in
The Krupp firm is one of several
German firms involved in the plunder in eastern
HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER
Dan Gertler’s grandfather,
Moshe Schnitzer (d. November 2007), was known in Israel as “Mr. Diamond;” in
youth he joined the pre-state underground organization Etzel (Irgoun), an Israeli military cell self-defined
as an “untra-nationationalist Jewish militia,” but one that committed acts of
terrorism in service to the Israeli cause.[85] Moshe Schnitzer assumed a major role in the
Africa-Israeli diamond trade in the 1950’s in a partnership business called
Schnitzer-Greenstein. Schnitzer later founded the Israel Diamond Exchange in
Tel Aviv in 1960, which today brings Israel $14 billion annually in blood
business, and is the country’s second-largest industry, but Israel’s top export. King Leopold III of
The diamond jewelry trade in
the
On
August 16, 2007 Rabbi Bentolila in
There
was no reply from Rabbi Bentolila, he was apparently busy readying for another
Bar Mitsvah in
[1] In January 2008 the International
Rescue Committee, who is also discussed in this article, released its second
survey of mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo, estimating that
5,400,000 people have died, or some 1500 people every day. Mortality in the
Democratic Republic of Congo: an Ongoing Crisis, International Rescue
Committee, January 2008, <http://www.theirc.org/special-report/congo-forgotten-crisis.html>.
However, IRC statistics are highly biased and politicized. See: keith harmon
snow, “Over Five Million Dead in
[2] Personal interview, Democratic
Republic of Congo, August 2006.
[3] keith harmon snow, “Warlord’s
Deadly Battle, Toward Freedom, 2007.
[4] Officers: Antonio Teixeira,
President & CEO; Robert G. Rainey, CFO; Brett Thompson, COO, Mining;
Dimitri (Jimmy) Kanakakis, Vice President, Corporate & Legal Affairs;
Bernard Poznanski, Corporate Secretary; Board Members: Brian Menell, Richard
Dorfman, Bruce Holmes, Robert Rainey, Antonio Teixeira, <www.energem.com>.
[5] See: “Africa/Diamonds: Rough
diamonds,” Africa Confidential, 5 March 2004, Vol. 45, No. 5; and “
[6] Tim Hoare, the head of the advisers
that launched it, Canaccord Adams, sits alongside rock star and champion of
Africa Bob Geldof on the board of the television-production company Ten Alps.
See: Ben Laurance, “Energy firm link to blood diamonds,” The Sunday Times,
December 30, 2007.
[7] See: keith harmon snow, “A People’s
History of Congo’s Jean-Pierre Bemba,” Toward Freedom, September 18,
2007.
[8] Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel,
“Diamond in the rough,” March 24, 2005, <www.haaretz.com>.
[9] Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel,
“Diamond in the rough,” March 24, 2005, <www.haaretz.com>.
[10] See: keith harmon snow, “
[11] Private interview,
[12] See: “Terror in the Diamond Fields:
Excessive Force and Impunity in the DRC,” Amnesty International Canada, <http://www.amnesty.ca/realsecurity/DRC.php>; Democratic
Republic of Congo: Government should investigate human rights violations in the
Mbuji Mayi diamond fields, Amnesty International, October 22,
2002;
[13] Making a Killing: The Diamond
Trade in Government Controlled DRC, Amnesty International, 2002, AFR 62/017/2002 22/10/2002.
[14] See: “ICEM protests
[15] “Diamond miners killed in DR
Congo,” BBC News, 7 August 2006, <http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:z9WCcOGeL8MJ:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5254006.stm+%22MIBA%22+%22illegal+miners%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4>.
[16] See: <http://www.jewishafrica.com/>
and <http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.htm/aid/117894/jewish/Chabad-of-Central-Africa.html
>.
[17] Private communication, Rabbi Chlomo
Bentolila, August 16, 2007.
[18] “Lag Baomer in
[19] “Visite de l’Ambassadeur Revah a’
[20] See: keith harmon snow, “Behind the
Scenes: Warlord’s Deadly Battle in
[21] Nicole Gaouette, "Inside
Israel's diamond trade: a family affair," Christian Science Monitor,
21 February 2002, <http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules6437.php>.
[22] Yitzhak Danon, “Top Israelis accused of illegal diamond deals:
[23] Christian Dietrich, Blood Diamonds:
Effective African-Based Monopolies, African Security Review, Vol. 10, No
3., 2001, <http://www.iss.co.za/ASR/10No3/Dietrich.html>.
[24] Yitzhak Danon, “Top Israelis accused of illegal diamond deals:
[25] Yitzhak Danon, “Top Israelis accused of illegal diamond deals:
[26] See: keith harmon snow, “Behind the
Scenes: Warlord’s Deadly Battle in
[27] “Presidential Chopper,”
[28] See: Overseas Security Services
Congo sprl web site, <www.oss-congo.com>.
[29] See: Overseas Security Services
Congo sprl web site, <www.oss-congo.com>.
[30] OSS-Congo owner Philippe de
Moerloose communicated with this author after his name appeared in a prior
story mentioning OSS-Congo and offered to meet in Europe and provide the author
with the “correct” information about his companies operations in
[31] See e.g., SEC info on Lenorth
Holdings: <http://www.secinfo.com/dsvrw.z14q.htm
> and SDG Marketing: <http://www.secinfo.com/$/SEC/Filings.asp?As=M&Name=incmarketingsdg>.
[32] Lior Chorev, The First [DRC]
Diamond Polishing Plant to Move into Full Production, Press Release, DGI Group of Companies, January 11, 2005,
<http://www.pressemeldinger.no/read.asp?RecNo=8106>.
[33] ARAD Communications web site,
[34] Private communication, Lior Chorev,
January 19, 2008.
[35] See: keith harmon snow, “Over Five
Million Dead in
[36] Private email communication, Lior
Chorev, January 19, 2008. See also: Gil Hoffman, “Olmert, Netanyahu Rivalry
Gets Personal,” Israel.jpost.com, March 26, 2006; “Sharon allies and
foes joust over new party as March 28 elections are set,” Associated Press,
November 22, 2005, <http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/7095.htm>;
[37] NATO Transformation, the
Mediterranean Dialog, and NATO-Israel Relations, October 23, 2006, <http://www.nato.int/med-dial/2006/registered_participants_isr.pdf>.
[38]
Yossi Melman and Asaf Carmel,
“Diamond in the Rough,” Haaretz.com, March 24, 2005.
[39] The Olayan Group web site: <http://www.olayangroup.com/directory.asp>.
[40] The Steinmetz Group, http://www.steinmetz-group.com/>.
[41] Gil Hoffman, “Politics; Unconscious
Legacy,” Jerusalem Post, features.jpost.com, January 3, 2008.
[42] Gil Hoffman, “Politics; Unconscious
Legacy,” Jerusalem Post, features.jpost.com, January 3, 2008.
[43] United Nations Panel of Experts
Confidential Report.
[44] Under the contract Emaxon granted
Miba loans totaling $5-million in 2003, and a further $10-million subsequently.
In exchange, Emaxon gained rights to 88% of Miba’s production at a discount,
formally, of 5%.
[45] Herzog, Fox and Neeman web site:
<http://www.hfn.co.il/pages/lawyers/neemany.htm>.
[47] See: keith harmon snow and Rick
Hines, “Blood Diamond: Doublethink and Deception About those Worthless Little
Rocks of Desire,” Z Magazine, June and July, 2007.
[48] On Neeman and Hurvitz, see
Markstone Capital Group, <http://www.markstonecapital.com/markstone2_5.htm>; on
Robert Rotberg, Maurice Templesman and the
[49] Criminal rackets known to the
United Nations security were or some time illegally shipping uranium and cobalt
out of
[50]
[51] Ron Ben-Yishai and Molly
Camprier-Kritz, “The Murder Request Went to the Wrong Address,” Yediot
Aharonot weekend supplement on 19 September 1999.
[52] Nicole Gaouette, “Inside Israel's
diamond trade: a family affair,” Christian Science Monitor, 21 February
2002, <http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules6437.php>.
[53] For a discussion of the veracity of
these facts and more on the “Russian Military Brotherhood” see: Central
Africa Minerals and Arms Research Bulletin, Edition 2, International Peace
Information Service, June 18, 2001.
[54] Jimmy Johnson, "Israelis and
Hezbollah Haven’t Always Been Enemies," Appearing in Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions USA, 6 September 2006, <http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:pYAbqkMgTJ4J:www.icahdusa.org/2006/09/06/israelis-and-hezbollah-haven%E2%80%99t-always-been-enemies/+%22hezbollah%22+%22congo%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=15>.
[55] Report of the Panel of Experts
Appointed Pursuan2t to UN Security Council Resolution 1306 (2000), Paragraph
19, in Relation to
[56] Energem web site: <http://www.energem.com/energem_logistics_industrial.html>;
and also: keith harmon snow and Rick Hines, “Blood Diamond: Doublethink and
Deception About those Worthless Little Rocks of Desire,” Z Magazine,
June and July, 2007.
[58] Charles Higham, Trading With The
Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949, Delacorte Press, 1983.
[59] Charles Hingham, Trading With
The Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949, Delacorte Press, 1983.
[60] Susan Mazur, “Deeper Into the
Dillon-Euphronios Nexus with David N. Gibbs,” SCOOP, April 26, 2006,
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00323.htm>.
[61] David Gibbs, The Political
Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money and
[62] Eric Onstad, “UPDATE 2-CAMEC shares
soar after agrees
[63] Brenna Chigonga, “
[64] See: Maurice Carney, “
[65] Martin Creamer, “Funded NIKANOR
presses on with $1,8bn copper mine, refinery,” Mining Weekly, September
21, 2007.
[66] Julie Walker, “Hersovs and Menells
are in no hurry to yield control of Anglovaal,” Sunday Times, <http://www.btimes.co.za/98/0517/comp/comp17.htm>.
[67] Evelyn Groenink, “Arms deal: Who
got R1bn in pay-offs?” Mail & Guardian, January 12, 2007, < http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=295457&area=/insight/insight__national/>.
[68] Teal Exploration & Mining web
site: <http://www.tealmining.com/tp/brief.asp>.
[69] Press Release: Kenya-Uganda Oil
Products Pipeline, Kenya-Uganda Joint Co-coordinating Commission for
Extension of Oil Pipeline, August 17, 2005, <http://www.energyandminerals.go.ug/Press%20Release_Oil%20PipeLine%20Extension.pdf>;
see also: Energem web site: <http://www.energem.com/energem_corporate_info.html>.
[70] François Misser and Olivier Vallée,
“Des matières premières toujours convoitées. Les nouveaux acteurs du secteur
minier Africain,” Le Monde
Diplomatique, May 1998, p.24-25; also Wayne Madsen, Genocide and
Covert Operations in
[71] Diamond Fields International
Management: <http://www.diamondfields.com/s/Management.asp>.
[72] ‘Inculpations à la Belgolaise’, Le
Libre Belgique, 4 June 2004.
[73] Private interview,
[74] Norm Dixon, “Congo Massacre:
Australian mining company's managers indicted,” Green Left Review,
November 4, 2006 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/689/35790>.
[75] His name is known, but he
threatened to track down and break the author’s legs if he is revealed.
[76] See: Barry Sergeant, “NIKANOR’s
Quandry: Meet Dan the Man, King of the Congo,” MoneyWeb, 4 April 2007, < http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page1329?oid=84351&sn=Detail>;
“Congo Kinshasa: After the Election" Africa Confidential, Vol. 47,
No. 23, 17 Nov. 2006; and United Nations Security Council Report to the
Secretary General, S/2003/1027, 23 October 2003.
[77] George Forrest International, <http://www.forrestgroup.com/uk/home.html>.
[78] Personal investigation,
[79]
http://www.nikanor.co.uk/default.asp?page=15
[80] These are: the Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); Federal Foreign Office; Federal
Ministry of Finance; and Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor. Since 1998
the Supervisory Board Chairman has been State Secretary Erich Stather from the
BMZ.
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