http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/18/libya-saif-gaddafi-jack-richards
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Secretive fixer linked to Libya for 40 years

• US businessman Jack Richards met Libyan leader before coup
• Took Saif Gaddafi shooting on Princess Anne's estate
Jack Richards
Jack Richards, pictured leaving a London restaurant, allegedly told another businessman he ‘could make things happen in Libya’.

A businessman who has links with Libya stretching back more than 40 years is a secretive British-based fixer who entertained the Libyan leader's son on Princess Anne's estate.
The news has emerged after controversy over the links between the Libyan high command and Prince Andrew, the UK's special trade envoy and the princess's younger brother.
Jack Richards, an American who lives in a multimillion-pound mansion in the West Country, is a long-standing associate of Colonel Gaddafi and his son Saif, who for years was thought to be the dictator's likely successor.
A leaked memo, written by one of Richards's oil industry clients and seen by the Guardian, reveals: "He [Richards] became acquainted with Saif, whom he has since got to know well and has taken shooting on Princess Anne's estate – which borders JR's farm in Gloucestershire."
Other guests at the event confirmed that the princess was present. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
The memo was written in 2005 by a lawyer at Petro-Canada (now Suncor Energy) immediately after a meeting with Richards with a view to hiring him to assist in gaining access to Libyan oil concessions.
Contacts of Richards suggested the agent was still trading on his Libyan contacts as recently as last year, while they added that he is "paranoid" about keeping his privacy and how he talks of a friendship with the Queen's daughter, who is understood to have been entertained by Richards at his home.
Despite links to the highest possible figures within the oil-rich state and his obvious wealth, there has been next to no public material ever produced on the businessman or his activities. However, Richards – whose daughter also helped to research Saif Gaddafi's PhD thesis at the London School of Economics – has been a significant enough figure to attract the attention of Menas Associates, a consultancy with experts on north Africa.
Its 2005 report "Gaddafi's American friend" states that Richards was "based in Tripoli in the 1960s when he was working for American communications giant RCA. He apparently worked closely with Libyan military personnel and some of the young officers – including one called Muammar Gaddafi – contacted him and asked whether he would give them some English-language training.
"After the 1 September 1969 coup [which brought Gaddafi to power], Richards suddenly discovered that his students now occupied many of the most prominent positions in the country ... It is alleged that he was responsible for obtaining prime exploration blocks for one of the foreign oil companies now in Libya."
Richards told the Guardian: "[Saif] is not a particularly close friend of mine and I have to say the more I see of him the more disappointed I am in him and what he's doing in that country.
"But I have been pretty well fully retired from this business for some time. I may have given advice to some people at one time but, in fact [around 2003], I think I hadn't travelled to Libya for some years even."
Richards says that he did not do any business with Libya while international sanctions against the Gaddafi regime were in place.
More recently, it is understood that in late 2009 Richards had discussions with Sir Ian Wood, chairman of Wood Group, the FTSE-250 oil services company, about Libyan business opportunities. The Aberdeen-based company declined to comment on its relationship with Richards.
Another businessman who considered hiring the American said: "He had the contacts, there's no doubt, and he spoke at the time of being heavily involved with Petro-Canada. Jack described his contacts in Libya and said he could make a difference."
Richards, who also admits to knowing Saif Gaddafi's aide Mohamed Ismail, says: "The truth is that I've worked on and off in [Libya] from time to time. These stories of my knowing the leader early on are greatly exaggerated. I've probably met him on one or two occasions."

http://dougsaunders.net/2011/02/gaddafi-libya-oil-lavalin-suncor-gadhaf/
Excerpt:

The Dirty Business of Doing Business in Gadhafi’s Libya

By Doug Saunders | Published: February 26, 2011
Ben Gardane, Tunisia
When the big men come crashing down, all manner of mysteries spill out on the sand. Here in this dusty and somewhat disreputable slice of the Sahara near the Libyan border, people fleeing Moammar Gadhafi’s fast-collapsing dictatorship gather at stuccoed hotel bars and make furtive deals in the night.
340x 205x300 The Dirty Business of Doing Business in Gadhafis LibyaMost of the exhausted, frightened figures making their way through the smuggler hideout of Ben Gardane are Egyptians, Turks and even a few Japanese who had come to Libya for the fat paycheques of this bizarre oil kingdom, enjoying a living standard and wage level far higher than their own. Libya was a magnet to everyone in Africa, a place where you could make some money if you shut up and played along.
Read full column in The Globe and Mail
But there’s a more elevated clientele, such as the Austrian diplomats who sat up drinking beer and making desperate phone calls to destroy their Tripoli embassy’s records. On the other side of the country, you can encounter hundreds of Canadians boarding flights to get out as quickly as possible, some leaving their own embarrassments behind.
Among these is the revelation that SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the giant Montreal-based engineering firm, has been quietly building a prison, on a contract worth an estimated $275-million (U.S.), in Tripoli, the capital of the Libyan police state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (TSX: SNC) is a large Canadian engineering firm. It is one of the ten largest engineering firms in the world and is based in Montreal, Quebec. It formed in 1991 from the merger of SNC and the failing Lavalin, another Quebec based engineering firm.

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The company was established by Arthur Surveyer in 1911 in Montreal. Surveyer’s private practice at first specialized in hydraulics (rivers, hydropower projects and flood control), but soon branched out into the industrial sector (particularly pulp and paper and mining and metallurgy).
Surveyer formed a first 10-year partnership with Emil Nenniger and Georges Chênevert in 1936. A second partnership agreement was signed in 1946, and the firm’s name was changed to Surveyer, Nenniger and Chênevert. The name would eventually be abbreviated to SNC.
Lavalin was formed in 1936 by engineers Jean-Paul Lalonde and Romeo Valois. Bernard Lamarre was named President and CEO in 1962, and led the company for the next 29 years. During that time Lavalin grew to become SNC’s main rival in Canada. Lavalin also branched out in other industries, such as cable television—Canada's The Weather Network and MétéoMédia were founded by Lavalin in 1988; Lavalin's shares would be sold to Pelmorex in 1993.
In 1991, SNC merged with Lavalin to become SNC-Lavalin.

[edit] Operations

The company has interests in transportation, construction, hydroelectricity, mining and metallurgy, oil and gas, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, aerospace engineering, defense, nuclear, environment, agriculture, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.

The James Bay Project for the James Bay Energy Corporation (completed in 1979)[2]

  • The Canada Line, an extension of the SkyTrain rapid transit system in Vancouver (completed in 2009)[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Michael_Trentadue
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Kenneth Michael Trentadue (b. ?, d. August 21, 1995) was an Oklahoma man who died while in federal custody during the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing.[1]

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Kenneth Trentadue was born to a family of coal miners and raised in Number 7, a coal camp located between Cucumber, West Virginia, and Horsepen, Virginia. In 1961, when the coal business was facing hard times, Kenneth moved with his family to Orange County, California. In high school, despite being an accomplished athlete, Kenneth dropped out. He enlisted in the army, in which he shortly developed an addiction to heroin. He attempted employment doing factory work and carpentry, but eventually settled on bank robbery. He was subsequently caught, and served a prison sentence of several years, being released on parole in 1988, after which he got married and tried his hand again at legitimate employment. On June 19, 1995, his first child was born.[1]

[edit] Arrest and death

Kenneth was apprehended on June 10, 1995, while crossing the border from Mexico into California, when police officers ran his driver's license and discovered that he was wanted for violating his parole.[1] On August 18, Trentadue was transferred to the Department of Justice's Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. According to prison records, three days later, at 3:02 a.m., the morning of August 21, 1995, Kenneth was found in his cell suspended from a noose made out of his bed sheets, dead.[2]
Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy and federal officials determined that Trentadue had committed suicide by hanging himself. Officials tried to obtain the permission of Trentadue's family to cremate the body at the government's expense--an unprecedented move--but the family declined, since they found the claims of suicide suspicious. The government then performed an autopsy on Trentadue, but did not notify the family. [3]
When the family received the body from the prison authorities, it was covered in wounds, cuts, and bruises, leading the family to believe Trentadue had been tortured and beaten before his death. Trentadue had sustained three heavy blows to the head, and his throat had been cut; prison authorities claimed the wounds were self-inflicted.[2] The day after Trentadue's death, Kevin Rowland, the chief examiner of the Oklahoma state medical examiner filed a complaint with the FBI reporting irregularities in the investigation of Trentadue's death: the coroner was at first not permitted into the cell where Trentadue had died, and the cell itself was washed out before any investigation could be performed.[3] The complaint went on to state that, although the exact cause of death could not be determined, the claim that Trentadue had committed suicide was not consistent with the medical examiner's findings, and Trentadue appeared to have been tortured.[4] The FBI paperwork from the agent who received the medical examiner's call reads "murder" and "believes that foul play is suspect[ed] in this matter."[1]
A Board of Inquiry was convened by the Bureau of Prisons. The attorney in charge of the investigation was ordered to treat his findings as "attorney work product", a legal distinction that would protect information uncovered in his investigation from any potential lawsuit or Freedom of Information Act inquiries.[1]

[edit] Connection to the Oklahoma City bombing

Kenneth's brother Jesse began gathering information on his brother's death, still with no knowledge of a possible connection to the Oklahoma City bombing case. After being contacted by David Hammer, a convicted murderer who had struck up a friendship with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on death row, and had read about the Trentadue case in the newspapers, Jesse and others ultimately came to believe that Kenneth had been mistakenly identified by authorities as an accomplice in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It is supposed that Trentadue was interrogated to make him talk, and died during the interrogation.[3] After being shown a picture of Kenneth Trentadue, Timothy McVeigh is reported to have said, "Now I know why Trentadue was killed, because they thought he was Richard Guthrie."[2]
It is contended that Trentadue was mistaken for Richard Lee Guthrie Jr., a member of the Aryan Republican Army, members of which were thought to have associated with McVeigh, and were the subject of FBI investigation. The two men shared a strong physical resemblance – they were the same height, weight, and build, both had thick mustaches, and both had dragon tattoos on their left arm.[2] Both are thought to have resembled the description of "John Doe 2", the never-apprehended possible third conspirator in the bombing along with McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Less than one year after Trentadue's death, Guthrie would also be found dead in his prison cell, the day before he was scheduled to give a television interview.[2] His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.[5]
In 1999, Alden Gillis Baker – an inmate who had been imprisoned in Oklahoma City's Federal Transfer Center at the same time as Trentadue – came forward to volunteer to testify that he had witnessed Trentadue's murder. According to FBI documentation, the authenticity of which is vigorously disputed by the Department of Justice, Baker was even sharing a cell with Trentadue on the night of his death. In December 1999, Baker reported to a lawyer that he feared for his life. In August 2000, he was found dead in his cell, a suicide by hanging.[2]

[edit] Investigation

Kenneth's death was investigated by the FBI, although the agent charged with the task did not view Kenneth's cell. He did visit the prison itself, but talked with prison employees only – not inmates – and he collected no evidence for the case. For months, there was no movement on the case, but mounting complaints from the state medical examiner caught the ear of the Department of Justice, and in 1996 the DOJ's Civil Rights Division was given jurisdiction over the case. It determined that a federal grand jury ought to be convened, to decide if an indictment should be issued in Trentadue's case. The jury was convened on July 6, 1996.
Medical examiner Fred Jordan remained firm in his refusal to classify the death a suicide. Jordan told the U.S. Attorney's Office that Trentadue had been "abused and tortured", and would even go so far as to say "the federal grand jury is part of a cover-up."[1] To review the case, the Department of Justice consulted forensic pathologist Bill Gormley, of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Gormley contacted Kevin Rowland, the original chief investigator assigned the case by the Oklahoma state medical examiner. In his memo of the conversation, Rowland wrote that Gormley "was troubled that [the Department of Justice] only seemed interested in him saying it might be possible these injuries were self inflicted." According to Rowland, Gormley was becoming increasingly sure that Trentadue was murdered.[1]
I think it's very likely [Trentadue] was murdered. I'm not able to prove it....You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room as Mr. Trentadue was, soaked in blood, covered with bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene, and the government of the United States says no, you can't.... At that point we have no crime scene, so there are still questions about the death of Kenneth Trentadue that will never be answered because of the actions of the U.S. government. Whether those actions were intentional—whether they were incompetence, I don't know.... It was botched. Or, worse, it was planned. --Fred Jordan, medical examiner, television interview[1]
Nevertheless, in August 1997 the grand jury found no evidence of foul play in Trentadue's death. The FBI continued to exert pressure on Fred Jordan to rule the case a suicide. Oklahoma Assistant Attorney General Patrick Crawley contacted an attorney in the Department of Justice on Jordan's behalf, telling him that the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons had "prevented the medical examiner from conducting a thorough and complete investigation into the death, destroyed evidence, and otherwise harassed and harangued Dr. Jordan and his staff." In July 1998, Jordan officially changed the listed cause of death from "unknown" to "suicide". His reversal, he said, had been based largely on the analysis of a handwriting expert of Trentadue's supposed suicide note, even though the expert had not been permitted to see the actual note.[1]
In November 1999, a further investigation – this time by the U.S. Inspector General – released a report on its findings, stating there was no evidence to support the theory that Trentadue had been murdered, or that there had been a cover-up. The report does however note that the FBI and Bureau of Prisons had poorly conducted the investigation, and that four employees of the federal government had "made false statements" under oath in connection to the Trentadue case.[4][6]

[edit] Civil suit and other legal action

The Trentadue family filed a wrongful death suit against the federal government, and were awarded a settlement of $1.1 million dollars for their emotional distress associated with the way the federal government handled the case.[4]
The federal government appealed the $1.1-million-dollar award, and in August 2007 the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit revoked the award and sent the case back to the judge who originally awarded the money.[7] In 2008, after bouncing back and forth twice on appeal, the judge reinstated the award, although the Trentadue family claims Department of Justice attorneys have told them the federal government will never pay, no matter how many judgments the family wins.[8]
In November 2008, Kenneth Trentadue's family offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to a murder conviction in the case of Trentadue's death.[9]
According to one 2008 interview, the federal government did pay a civil settlement, which is the source of the money offered as a reward.[10]
In 2007, Jesse Trentadue requested to conduct videotaped depositions of Terry Nichols and death-row inmate David Paul Hammer on the subject of Kenneth Trentadue's death and on the FBI's possible withholding of documents relating to Kenneth Trentadue, documents that Jesse had requested in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball granted Trentadue's request. After the FBI urged him to reconsider in September 2008, Judge Kimball reaffirmed the decision. The FBI appealed the decision, claiming the two prisoners "clearly have no knowledge regarding FBI procedures in filing and searching for records." In July 2009 the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned Kimball's decision, barring Trentadue from conducting the interviews.[11]

OKLAHOMA STATE MEDICAL EXAMINER SPEAKING OUT AGAINST CLINTON-RENO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86hZhcjZHE8

http://projectwakeupcall.blogspot.com/2011/02/okc-bombing-jesse-trentadue-interviewed.html
Excerpt:

Sunday, February 27, 2011


OKC Bombing: Jesse Trentadue Interviewed by Dr. Bill Deagle - 02/22/2011

The FBI Had Prior Knowledge of the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Did the FBI kill Kenneth Trentadue during an interrogation?


[Kenneth Trentadue - murdered while incarcerated]

Jesse Trentadue Interviewed on Dr. Bill Deagle's "Nutrimedical Report" Radio Show - 02/22/2011 (Hour 3)
February 22, 2011 (hour 3)

Download this interview...
Jesse Trentadue Invterview with Dr. Bill Deagle - 02/22/2011

For more information about the Kenneth Trentadue case, go to...
http://www.kennethtrentadue.com/

I'm not as trusting of Alex Jones these days but do still believe he has good info on some of the World issues.  ...cal

Alex Jones and Jesse Trentadue (Kenneth Trentadue's brother) on murder of Kenneth and the OKC bombing youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkvNKX5Jqik
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