BUT
the Riggs bank screwed up.
The Oil Companies (including Amerada Hess, Incat, ExxonMobil, Shell) told Obiang that they they would put huge amounts of money in special account just for him, if they let him just take the oil out of EQ.
Obiang thought this sounded just fine.
Somehow though, when he decided to buy a house in Maryland, he needed a LOAN from Riggs to finance the purchase.
Then one of his cousins said something during a meeting with the press and the LA Times jumped on it.
Riggs (acting in concert with the oil companies) had pretty much stolen ALL the revenue that had been generated by the removal of crude oil from EQ.
Well, the FBI went through Riggs
(the part that does not answer to Mueller or Ashcroft)
and found a lot of other scams going. Personal bank accounts were being looted and the cash was being sent all over the place
(Princess Haifa of Saudi Arabia can testify to that.)
Riggs was ordered to put the money back into people's accounts
and in the case of Obiang,
it was ordered to surrender that cash to the Treasury Department of Equatorial Guinea
since that oil revenue is NOT Obiang's personal property but rather
belongs to the people of that country.
This is in accordance with US and international law.
Well, Unka Jonathan Bush of Riggs Bank just about had a fit.
He saw this as a direct violation of
the first principle of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition,
-- Once you have their money, you never give it back.
Jonathan Bush appealed to his fellow Ferengi
and the next thing you know,
the mercenaries in Iraq
fly off at Pope AFB in North Carolina,
to board a former Air National Guard plane now registered as N4610,
and then hop over to the Bahamas which is Spy Central HQ,
before landing in South Africa to pick up extra muscle-men
and then being busted in Zimbabwe trying to purchase arms
for the coup in they are going to perform in Equatorial Guinea.
Mercenaries accused of planning a coup in an oil-rich African state also worked under contract for the British government providing security in Iraq, raising fears about the way highly sensitive security work is awarded, The Observer has learnt.
The Department for International Development (DfID) signed a £250,000 deal last summer with the South-African based Meteoric Tactical Solutions (MTS) to provide 'close protection' for department staff, including bodyguards and drivers for its senior official in Iraq.
Two of the firm's owners were arrested in Zimbabwe last March with infamous British mercenary and former SAS officer Simon Mann. The men are accused of plotting an armed coup in Equatorial Guinea.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1232626,00.htmlSevero Moto was supposed to replace Obiang
and had he signed off on the Riggs account
or "accepted" the returned" funds,
then the problem Unka Jonathan was facing would have vanished.
Riggs has already invested the money in the worship of Ialdabaoth.
It shall never be returned.
Blood will be spilled instead.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters: "We have no indication this aircraft is connected to the U.S. government."
The Pentagon also denied a connection with the aircraft. "It isn't one of our planes and not any of our people," said Pentagon spokesman Army Major Paul Swiergosz.
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The State Department disingenuous claim -- endlessly repeated in news stories around the globe -- is that they have " no indication this aircraft is connected to the U.S. government." After a nearly forty-year relationship with the US government, you would think the poor old plane would deserve better!
Peculiarly, of the eight planes of its type, it is the only one not currently in use by the Air National Guard, listed with the site I consulted as operated by the U. S. Air Force.
http://www.kathryncramer.com/wblog/archives/000457.html