Btw, I read that Denard got off the hook.
Indeed, I saw him on the French TV: the way this whole Denard affair was presented was to depict Bob Denard as an ageing, inoffensive grandaddy who no longer cares about mercenary safaris in the African bush... Since he was acquitted of the assassination of the former Comoro president, the media claimed that Denard's been fully rehabilitated by a French civilian jury (=US grand jury).
Actually, Denard knows too much about France's skeletons in her foreign/African closet. During his trial in the French court of assizes, Denard called as witnesses several high-ranking officials from both French intelligence and military administrations (including a former Elysee aide of President F. Mitterrand) --some of them were still in active employment.
Anyway, as far as the bombings of the US embassies go, the FBI has allegedly traced the explosives back to the Comoros (several press articles are available online). Obviously, as one tries to look further, the whole picture gets blurred by the Islamic smoke screen. The only faint thread connecting Denard to the Comoros's Muslim establishment is his own, belated, and almost ludicrous conversion: according to Denard's facade version, he converted to Islam to marry his umpteenth wife... Will you buy it?
Sure, the US have alienated a lot of Muslim parties throughout the world; yet, I don't think that an Islamic terrorist agency would proceed as in East Africa's indiscriminate massacre. Both Kenya and Tanzania reputedly harbor a sizeable Muslim minority and, on the other hand, only 12 out of the 275 or so casualties of the bombings were US citizens (not to speak of the 5,000 injured)... Now, do you get the picture? Means that most of the fatalities might have been innocent, Muslim passers-by. One doesn't need to hold a PhD in Orientalism to find out that such a random bloodshed doesn't fit the radical Islamic mindset --contrariwise, it does fit in pretty well with the cast of mind of some loose, colonialist-minded gang who wouldn't give a shit about blowing up several hundred ''niggers''... Add to that the current power game between France and the US in Central Africa and it doesn't take an expert in geopolitics to get it.
Regards,
Gustave. |
