SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
Brian Mulroney needs to give answers that only Schreiber has
Friday, September 07, 2007
By: Daniel M. Deilgat
Toronto, Ontario
Is Brian Mulroney victim of the machinations and manipulations of a desperate man?There’s nothing I despise more than having to defend someone who doesn’t deserve it. But let that be a reminder to those who will read this, if a cold blooded murderer can have children and truly loved them then there must be something good deep inside that man, something worth respecting.Mulroney’s problem has always been greed. Money drove his life and was the architect of his dreams. His personal wealth was always first, Canada, I presume, might have come in third after his family but in the end, money was everything he needed the rest was a bi-product of his wallet and the generosity of those who‘s needs Mulroney was in a position to advance.That brings in Karlheinz Schreiber, a man who’s job it was to indiscriminately shower the right people with cash. Mulroney was in the right place at the right time, it was a marriage made in… the bank.Schreiber is a reputed arms dealer and the sharpest tool in the shed. He said it himself, he might be ugly but he’s not stupid.I remember sitting behind Schreiber in a Toronto court looking at him smiling in an approving manner at the judge from his seat, as if he understood exactly why these lawyers were arguing over some futile circumstances that were really a misunderstanding. He looked like the father who would let the children argue until they realized that they wasted their time.Schreiber and his wife attending court as if it was Sunday morning church, kids in tow and dressed to the nines.I remembered thinking just how surreal this all looked. Here is a man on trial in a deportation hearing for bringing down the government of Chancellor Kohl, a man that sold tanks to the Saudis and had direct connections with Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. I couldn’t help looking at his wife and wondering how someone so Christian looking could be with a man who’s product kills children an innocent civilians by the thousand.I had a hard time focusing on the debate in front of me, all I could remember is Eddie Greenspan going on and on about a book. Greenspan was fixated with this book, every reply was this book this, that book that…Of course he was talking about Stevie Cameron’s book, The Last Amigo, a book she co-authored with a producer of CBC’s Fifth Estate, Harvey Cashore. Greenspan was right to question the crown’s quote taken right out of the book, Greenspan knew the book was wrong but he knew something else, he knew that if it ever came out that the cash came from entities affiliated to Al Qaeda, Mulroney was toast. An ace in the hole if you will.This was a well orchestrated campaign. Schreiber found The CBC’s Fifth Estate to play with Mulroney’s nerves.Then one day Schreiber dropped the bomb with complete detachment, he had paid Mulroney three hundred thousand dollars in cash in hotels in Montreal and New York. Right after Mulroney had stated that he had no business dealings with the man, to a judge…Then even more stunning, Mulroney admitted to receiving cash from Schreiber, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Why he would admit to that when it was his word against Schreiber’s is beyond comprehension. Then I remembered a quote from Mulroney’s PR guy, Luc Lavoie, “ Mulroney is not that stupid it’s just not him…”Right Luc, what the heck were we thinking here…At that point Schreiber clearly is on his way to saying what he tried so hard no to say. He recently admitted to a journalist that he regrets having held back the truth for so long. In another article he claims that revelations that he might make will shock Canadians, stuff they can’t even dream about…What he means of course is that the money came from terrorism affiliated accounts, Al-Qaeda is one of the beneficiaries.Now before I get back to this I would like to note that at this point CSIS is clueless, not one iota of a clue.What’s interesting here is that the transactions pre-dated the 9/11 attacks by more than seven years and Al-Qaeda’s rising public profile. So why would this be so important? After all I couldn’t find one Canadian that would believe for a second that Mulroney is a terrorist sympathizer ( sorry Mr. Arar), so why is it so significant… Peter Munk once said of Mulroney that our ex-prime minister was on first name basis with every single dictator around the world… That’s not good. But the picture gets clearer as we consider the time lines.Harper is now Prime minister and of course Mulroney a valued advisor to the minority prime minister. So Karl tightened the proverbial nuts a little tighter.Now we have a prime minister who’s most high profile advisor admitted receiving funds from an individual that drew the funds from an Al Qaeda entity - still no CSIS.Harper is set to address the Australian parliament on September the 11th to commemorate the 9/11 attacks and Mulroney is coming out with his memoirs. Yesterday a protester in Australia was arrested in a Bin Laden costume waving a Canadian flag… I wonder when Harper will visit our troops again in Afghanistan…Now you would think that Schreiber is feeling vindicated, but he isn’t. The last thing Schreiber wants the Canadians to know is that he was wheeling and dealing with Osama. Unless of course he could strike a deal where he would be immune from prosecution and would stay in Canada. No, Schreiber isn’t happy right now. Neither is Mulroney.Harper meanwhile now has to answer to the world.I wonder if Ogilvy Renault sent golf balls to Osama Bin Laden.Daniel M. Deilgat
posted by Dan Deilgat @ Friday, September 07, 2007
By: Daniel M. Deilgat
Toronto, Ontario
Is Brian Mulroney victim of the machinations and manipulations of a desperate man?There’s nothing I despise more than having to defend someone who doesn’t deserve it. But let that be a reminder to those who will read this, if a cold blooded murderer can have children and truly loved them then there must be something good deep inside that man, something worth respecting.Mulroney’s problem has always been greed. Money drove his life and was the architect of his dreams. His personal wealth was always first, Canada, I presume, might have come in third after his family but in the end, money was everything he needed the rest was a bi-product of his wallet and the generosity of those who‘s needs Mulroney was in a position to advance.That brings in Karlheinz Schreiber, a man who’s job it was to indiscriminately shower the right people with cash. Mulroney was in the right place at the right time, it was a marriage made in… the bank.Schreiber is a reputed arms dealer and the sharpest tool in the shed. He said it himself, he might be ugly but he’s not stupid.I remember sitting behind Schreiber in a Toronto court looking at him smiling in an approving manner at the judge from his seat, as if he understood exactly why these lawyers were arguing over some futile circumstances that were really a misunderstanding. He looked like the father who would let the children argue until they realized that they wasted their time.Schreiber and his wife attending court as if it was Sunday morning church, kids in tow and dressed to the nines.I remembered thinking just how surreal this all looked. Here is a man on trial in a deportation hearing for bringing down the government of Chancellor Kohl, a man that sold tanks to the Saudis and had direct connections with Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. I couldn’t help looking at his wife and wondering how someone so Christian looking could be with a man who’s product kills children an innocent civilians by the thousand.I had a hard time focusing on the debate in front of me, all I could remember is Eddie Greenspan going on and on about a book. Greenspan was fixated with this book, every reply was this book this, that book that…Of course he was talking about Stevie Cameron’s book, The Last Amigo, a book she co-authored with a producer of CBC’s Fifth Estate, Harvey Cashore. Greenspan was right to question the crown’s quote taken right out of the book, Greenspan knew the book was wrong but he knew something else, he knew that if it ever came out that the cash came from entities affiliated to Al Qaeda, Mulroney was toast. An ace in the hole if you will.This was a well orchestrated campaign. Schreiber found The CBC’s Fifth Estate to play with Mulroney’s nerves.Then one day Schreiber dropped the bomb with complete detachment, he had paid Mulroney three hundred thousand dollars in cash in hotels in Montreal and New York. Right after Mulroney had stated that he had no business dealings with the man, to a judge…Then even more stunning, Mulroney admitted to receiving cash from Schreiber, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Why he would admit to that when it was his word against Schreiber’s is beyond comprehension. Then I remembered a quote from Mulroney’s PR guy, Luc Lavoie, “ Mulroney is not that stupid it’s just not him…”Right Luc, what the heck were we thinking here…At that point Schreiber clearly is on his way to saying what he tried so hard no to say. He recently admitted to a journalist that he regrets having held back the truth for so long. In another article he claims that revelations that he might make will shock Canadians, stuff they can’t even dream about…What he means of course is that the money came from terrorism affiliated accounts, Al-Qaeda is one of the beneficiaries.Now before I get back to this I would like to note that at this point CSIS is clueless, not one iota of a clue.What’s interesting here is that the transactions pre-dated the 9/11 attacks by more than seven years and Al-Qaeda’s rising public profile. So why would this be so important? After all I couldn’t find one Canadian that would believe for a second that Mulroney is a terrorist sympathizer ( sorry Mr. Arar), so why is it so significant… Peter Munk once said of Mulroney that our ex-prime minister was on first name basis with every single dictator around the world… That’s not good. But the picture gets clearer as we consider the time lines.Harper is now Prime minister and of course Mulroney a valued advisor to the minority prime minister. So Karl tightened the proverbial nuts a little tighter.Now we have a prime minister who’s most high profile advisor admitted receiving funds from an individual that drew the funds from an Al Qaeda entity - still no CSIS.Harper is set to address the Australian parliament on September the 11th to commemorate the 9/11 attacks and Mulroney is coming out with his memoirs. Yesterday a protester in Australia was arrested in a Bin Laden costume waving a Canadian flag… I wonder when Harper will visit our troops again in Afghanistan…Now you would think that Schreiber is feeling vindicated, but he isn’t. The last thing Schreiber wants the Canadians to know is that he was wheeling and dealing with Osama. Unless of course he could strike a deal where he would be immune from prosecution and would stay in Canada. No, Schreiber isn’t happy right now. Neither is Mulroney.Harper meanwhile now has to answer to the world.I wonder if Ogilvy Renault sent golf balls to Osama Bin Laden.Daniel M. Deilgat
posted by Dan Deilgat @ Friday, September 07, 2007
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