Oil, CIA and Coups in Mauritania with U.S. Fmr. Ambassador Peck

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to U.S. Former Ambassador to Mauritania, Edward Peck about possible scenarios in the oil-rich West African nation of Mauritania.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, August 5, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement on August 1, 2008 in Nouakchott at the conclusion of his visit to Mauritania:




"It has been a great pleasure to visit Mauritania. I wish to thank the President, Mr. Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi for the warm hospitality extended by the Mauritanian government to participants in the seminar for African Governors of the IMF and the World Bank.

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[TheCrazyFinn]

"you always have to factor in, what things cost there."

Prices in Mauritania are actually HIGH on European standards.

[noideaorig]

asperin you are exactly right, and Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is a history book of the most recent coups economic and military supported by the US government in the past 40 to 50 years. Good post.

[asperin]

CIA behind most coups... How hard is that to accept with all the evidence around.

That old man is a denier. Or just playing his role as one of them.

[asperin]

A coup without shooting bullets...

You know how much we can do that in the US?!?!

With all the numbers of people against the government we could walk to Washington and pick the congressmen and senators like garbage and put them in the curb.

We don't realize how much we are and how powerful we are. We should.

[odin422]

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