American (Republican political consultant Paul Manafort) admits cash role in 'Karachi affair'

[The Straight Story]

American admits cash role in 'Karachi affair'

Republican political consultant Paul Manafort has admitted being paid by an intermediary in 1994 arms sales for advising the campaign of French presidential hopeful Edouard Balladur

Manafort, who worked for Republican presidential campaigns of the 1980s, also told investigators he met with officials in Balladur's unsuccessful 1995 presidential campaign, Liberation newspaper said.

French investigators suspect a web of corruption behind the sale of sub-marines from France to Pakistan, with illegal funds going to the Balladur campaign in a scandal known as the "Karachi affair."

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was a cabinet minister and then prime minister Balladur's spokesman at the time, is linked to the affair.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20130804/us-republican-admits-cash-role-in-karachi-affair

[dipsydoodle]

1. I wondered what it was Sarkozy was trying to wriggle out of association with.

and now we know.

[malaise]

2. Ever wonder how Sarkozy became leader of France

Follow the Iraq war and the coalition of the willing

[dipsydoodle]

3. Coalition of the silly more like it.

In years to come historians will look back and say was in their minds.

[malaise]

4. Silly is too good for them

war criminals is more appropriate