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Kil
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 Posted - 12/02/2010 : 17:00:32
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Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.
Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next three days,” Godwin Obla, prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said in an interview today at his office in Abuja, the capital. An arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” the world’s biggest international police organization, he said.
Peter Long, Cheney’s spokesman, said he couldn’t immediately comment when contacted today and said he would respond later to an e-mailed request for comment.
Obla said charges will be filed against current and former chief executive officers of Halliburton, including Cheney, who was CEO from 1995 to 2000, and its former unit KBR Inc., based in Houston, Texas; Technip SA, Europe’s second-largest oilfield- services provider; Eni SpA, Italy’s biggest oil company; and Saipem Construction Co., a unit of Eni. Obla didn’t identify the former officials whom he said held office when the alleged bribes were paid.
Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on bail on Nov. 29… |
Guess Cheney won't be going to Nigeria for a while...
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/02/2010 : 17:28:41 [Permalink]
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Cheney is unlikely to live another year unless he can buy himself a human heart to replace his cyborg heart (Darth Cheney jokes aside, he actually does have a robot heart. ventricular assist device, which is actually pretty freakin cool tech)
So he will never see a Nigerian court room unless he is dumb enough to travel to a country with an extradition treaty with Nigeria.
It's also interesting that when the US DOJ was investigating this alleged crime he was VP and his lackeys were in charge of the DOJ.
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The Rat
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Posted - 12/03/2010 : 06:29:22 [Permalink]
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| As much as it pains me to say this (Cheney should definitely face the music somehow), how can it be taken seriously when it comes from a country where people can be stoned to death for minor transgressions? Nigeria is a human rights hell-hole that has no legitimacy when it comes to issues of legality or morality. |
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 12/03/2010 : 08:47:37 [Permalink]
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I agree that capital punishment is barbaric.
Still, the image in my mind of Cheney getting stoned warms my heart. Does that make me an evil person?
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Dude
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Posted - 12/03/2010 : 09:52:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
As much as it pains me to say this (Cheney should definitely face the music somehow), how can it be taken seriously when it comes from a country where people can be stoned to death for minor transgressions? Nigeria is a human rights hell-hole that has no legitimacy when it comes to issues of legality or morality.
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Depends what part of the country (Nigeria) you are in. Only some of their states impose muslim sharia laws. The federal system there is closer to ours in terms of the justice system.
Still, we shouldn't be sending people to them for trial/punishment. Not until they are up to the standards of western democratic justice systems.
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The Rat
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Posted - 12/03/2010 : 16:37:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Depends what part of the country (Nigeria) you are in. Only some of their states impose muslim sharia laws. The federal system there is closer to ours in terms of the justice system.
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If the federal government allows such things then I count the whole country as a hell-hole. If Rhode Island began to allow stoning for adultery I would blame Washington for allowing them that much freedom. |
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Dude
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Posted - 12/03/2010 : 18:42:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
Originally posted by Dude
Depends what part of the country (Nigeria) you are in. Only some of their states impose muslim sharia laws. The federal system there is closer to ours in terms of the justice system.
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If the federal government allows such things then I count the whole country as a hell-hole. If Rhode Island began to allow stoning for adultery I would blame Washington for allowing them that much freedom.
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Yeah. They don't have the same strong federal government we do. They are a good example of what would actually happen here if our states ever won the "state's rights" argument. Which is why, as much as I dislike Cheney, I would argue against any attempt (not that there ever will be one) to extradite him to nigeria. We shouldn't lend them that degree of credibility until they get their shit together.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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Nigeria to charge Cheney in bribery case
