French To Indict Cheney?

[Me.]

This story has been on the back burners for at least a year, but it my be starting to perk.

CHENEY INDICTED IN FRANCE?

Monday, October 24, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

by staff reports
“In the context of all the indictments, both impending and already served, concerning PlameGate, it may seem overkill to consider what other countries are up to. However, according to a report on Uruknet.org, there is a distinct possibility that a French court might indict U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, on charges of bribery, money laundering and misuse of corporate assets.

The issue involves a $6 billion gas liquification factory, built in Nigeria on behalf of oil mammoth Shell by Halliburton - the company Cheney headed before becoming Vice President - and in partnership with Technip, a large French petroengineering company. The story says Judge Renaud van Ruymbeke, a renowned French jurist, has been probing the Nigeria deal since last October.

According to accounts in the French press, it says, Judge van Ruymbeke believes that some or all of $180 million in so-called secret "retrocommissions" paid by Halliburton and Technip were, in fact, bribes given to Nigerian officials and others to grease the wheels for the refinery's construction. – ST”


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[PatrioticLeftie]

1. Do foreign countries have that kind of power?

Seems irresponsible to allow countries to indict officials from other nations.

[Me.]

2. Not Sure

Could be it was done on "French soil". If a foreigner committed a crime here we'd ask for extradition. Don't know how it works when the person is a "leader" of the country, though the crime(s) in question happened when he was at Hallibutron. It could be a just show trial, but in a bad week, it's another pile on.

[H2O Man]

4. I think that it

is intended to be symbolic. It seems unlikely that the French government would assume that Cheney is going to be delivered on a platter to stand trial. It should serve as a measure of how the rest of the world views the United States government. When your friends are doing even symbolic things which show that they recognize Cheney as a criminal.

[Me.]

3. Giving A Kick

and a second try