Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Bribery and fraud at heart of defense contracting work in Iraq and Afghanistan

WMR has learned from a knowledgeable contractor who served in Iraq and Afghanistan that a number of large U.S. defense contractors have been involved in questionable deals to land major contracts in countries that made up the "Coalition of the Willing" that invaded and occupied Iraq.

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  1. Absolute, worthless scum.


    The back room dealing primarily occurred in 2006 and the U.S. embassy in Seoul helped in arranging payments of untraceable cash for several South Korean politicians. The U.S. ambassador to South Korea at the time was Alexander Vershbow, who was nominated in March 2009 by President Obama as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security, a post in which Vershbow oversees foreign military sales.
    Successive South Korean governments have been wracked by bribery scandals, some involving top retired armed forces and police commanders and, in one case, the South Korean tax chief.
    WMR�s source stated that Booz Allen�s representative for arms sales to Egypt had previously been responsible for the sale of $55 billion of de-commissioned U.S. military hardware to countries friendly to the United States. The same Booz Allen representative to Egypt allegedly was also working for Lockheed Martin�s rocket propulsion division in the deal to sell the fighters to South Korea. The dubious U.S. arms dealing based out of Tokyo also involved, according to our source, a wealthy Pakistani businessman from Lahore, a Saudi prince, and a Japanese firm based in Yokohama.
    In February of this year, two Japanese businessmen revealed that they were involved in the secret A. Q. Khan nuclear acquisition ring that saw Pakistan serve as a hub for the proliferation of nuclear technology to Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea. One of the businessmen worked for Western Trading, a firm headquartered in Tokyo.

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