| Re: Dr Death cooked and cared for Mandela [boodskap #47556] |
Wed, 01 August 2001 23:47 |
Jonas
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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.)
>
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> Dr Death cooked and cared for Mandela
>
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> [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
>
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