Re: Dr Death cooked and cared for Mandela
Iemand sê vir my dat daar êrens in die Bybel geskryf staan - "daar sal geen geheime wees nie..." Dit laat my dink aan wanneer jy 'n ou trui ontrafel - jy soek slegs een los puntjie en die res volg. Dit is wat met die ANC gebeur. Daar is/was te veel vertrouelinge. "." skryf in boodskap news:9kaso8$9bq$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net... > Hier gaan nog lelike dinge uitkom by die ou se saak. Jammer die stuk is in > ingils. > . > On y soit, qui mal y pense. > (You are what you think.) > > > Dr Death cooked and cared for Mandela > > > [Pretoria, August 1 ] - Apartheid-era chemical warfare expert Wouter Basson > on Wednesday claimed he had in the early 1990s visited the house of former > president Nelson Mandela several times, had cooked for Mandela and even took > care of him when he undertook flights. > "I was at Mr Mandela's home four or five times with the Libyan Minister of > Foreign Affairs and Yusef Murgham (Basson claimed he was a Libyan > intelligence officer) and later with Graca Machel and (former African > National Congress spy) Sol Pienaar. > > "I had dropped Murgham and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Mandela's > house in 1992. I cannot remember when I was introduced to Mr Mandela, but I > know I at a later stage made food at Mandela's house and also took care of > him when he travelled by plane. > > "Pienaar travelled to Libya to fetch money for the ANC. That's what he did. > Later on we took over that function ... Murgham was responsible for funding > from Libya to the ANC. He paid cash to ANC members in Harare every month," > he said. > > He admitted bringing Pienaar under the impression that he was a wealthy > businessman. Pienaar earlier bitterly told the court how Basson had conned > him into introducing him to the top echelon of the ANC. > > Basson claimed to have been instrumental in handing a letter from Libyan > leader Muammar Gadhafi to British leader John Major through the intervention > of the chief of the then SA Defence Force, Georg Meiring. > > "Since I met the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs the first time, it was > always about the Lockerbie case. The letter from Gadhafi to John Major > suggested that Mandela should act as mediator," he said. > > Basson on Wednesday admitted that he had in 1994, after he was already put > on pension by the SADF, lied to the National Intelligence Agency about his > Libyan contacts and the chemical and biological warfare programme. > > He did this because of strict orders by the Chief of the Defence Force that > he had to withhold sensitive information about the programme from the NIA. > > "The operational solution was mine. I could say and do what I wanted to, as > long as I did not reveal any details of the project," he said. > > Basson said he could not remember being told by former SADF Surgeon General > Niel Knobel or the Minister of Defence to "play open cards" with the NIA. > > He however said he had at a later stage talked to the English and American > secret services about proliferation on behalf of the NIA. > > According to Basson, he did not inform Knobel about his contacts with the > Libyans, "because it was not necessary and he did not want to know". > > Basson claimed to have acted on behalf of Libyan, East German and Russian > principals when he set up a network of companies overseas and in South > Africa, using their funds. > > He had also used these "principals" to supply him with information, > technology and substances needed for the project. Defence Force money was > paid to the principals, but the proceeds ploughed back into the group of > companies. Basson said it did not concern him how the principals paid the > suppliers, as long as he received what he needed for the project. > > He said no books were kept for the front companies he created on behalf of > his principals and where he initially reported back regularly and in detail, > he later on had a free hand to do as he wanted and only reported back > occasionally to his principals. > > To a question of his principals ever wanted to know how much money they had > pumped into South Africa, Basson said: "I really don't know how much money > they invested in South Africa. They were satisfied as long as they obtained > the services they wanted. It was incidental money for them -- it was peanut > money -- it's not even money for them," he said. > > Basson said his principals appeared to have been satisfied with his work for > them and how he spent their money and the manner in which he reported it to > them. > > "If I used the money and did not tell them about it, I would probably not be > here today," he said. > > Basson is facing 46 charges, ranging from murder to fraud and drug > trafficking. He has denied guilt on all of the charges. > > The State alleges that he had used SADF funds to enrich himself and some of > his business partners and that he had supplied, or had been instrumental in > supplying, deadly toxins to kill enemies of the apartheid government. > > The trial continues -Worldonline news team >