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To: Scott Bergquist who wrote (7036)	7/12/2003 12:50:23 AM
From: trueblood986	Respond to of 8683

Asean Holdings Inc (C-AHI) - Street Wire Asean's Saxena faces $25-million (U.S.) libel suit Asean Holdings Inc AHI Thursday July 18 2002 Street Wire by Brent Mudry Nevada businessman Tariq Ahmad wasted little time firing back at Rakesh Saxena after being targeted by the fugitive Thai financier in a $15-million suit in Canada in late June. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) Mr. Ahmad responded with a $25-million libel and defamation suit against Mr. Saxena, one of his Vancouver lawyers and one of his offshore companies, a week after Stockwatch revealed the initial suit. Mr. Saxena, Marcala Foundation, based in the secretive offshore enclave of Liechtenstein, and lawyer Stewart Andree are named as defendants in a civil complaint filed July 3 in United States District Court for the District of Nevada in Reno. To support Nevada as a valid jurisdiction in which to file the suit, the action notes that Mr. Saxena is the president of Africa Resources Corp., a company the Thai fugitive states is incorporated in the state. The allegations have not yet been proven in court and no statements of defence have yet been filed. In this latest suit, the wily Mr. Ahmad has turned the tables on the wily Mr. Saxena, revealing the fugitive financier, wanted as one of the top figures in the $2-billion collapse of the Bangkok Bank of Commerce in 1996, is being probed by American authorities for much more recent questionable financial dealings. "In truth and fact, defendant Saxena is under criminal investigation by the FBI in Los Angeles, the District Attorney in the State of New Jersey and others for criminal activity, and is currently a defendant in a civil law suit for fraud in Los Angeles and for securities fraud in Salt Lake City, Utah," states the Nevada suit. It should be noted that Mr. Saxena has not yet been charged in any U.S. cases and even if he is charged, he remains presumed innocent until proven guilty. These U.S. investigations, however, are quite embarrassing for Canadian officials, as Mr. Saxena is currently fighting an extradition order from Vancouver, where he lives under self-financed $375,000-a-year house arrest in a luxury waterfront condo close to Howe Street, an international centre of penny stock dealings. Mr. Saxena's house arrest arrangement, a Canadian first, has sparked quite some controversy already. While the Saxena saga is rich with irony, scandal and intrigue, this current chapter has a special political twist. Opposition politicians would usually jump and down on Parliament Hill, claiming it is a mockery of Canada's justice system to have a foreign fugitive under U.S. investigation for alleged frauds committed while in custody under house arrest. Last August, however, Stockwatch revealed that Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament, John Reynolds, one of the top figures in Canada's official opposition, was linked to Mr. Saxena. In numerous contacts, Mr. Saxena tried to help Mr. Reynolds work out a whopping $484,000 (Canadian) debit the politician left at Vancouver brokerage Global Securities. Mr. Ahmad's current suit follows a Stockwatch story on June 27, which reported that the Reno entrepreneur was the latest figure named by Mr. Saxena in the $1-billion collapse of General Commerce Bank SA, a fraudulent Austrian bank linked to international boiler rooms, last year. In his June 26 suit, Mr. Saxena claims Mr. Ahmad worked closely with Raoul Berthaumieu of Belgium, the front man in the collapse of GCB, and helped raise $200-million in illicit proceeds from shares of penny stock shells controlled by or related to Mr. Saxena. Mr. Ahmad claims that not only are Mr. Saxena's statements "completely false," the mischievious fugitive Thai financier faxed the Stockwatch article to Mr. Ahmad's employer in Reno, to Kamputech, an associated company in New Jersey, and to others, "all in order to destroy the reputation of the plaintiff and have the plaintiff fired from his job as an engineer." Mr. Ahmad suggests that Mr. Saxena and his lawyer Mr. Andree need to get their facts straight. "Plaintiff (Ahmad) is not a financier, has never had any relationship with General Commerce Bank, has never raised any funds for shell companies currently or ever controlled by Saxena or for any shell companies," states the Nevada action. The Reno businessman also claims Mr. Saxena embarked on a badmouthing campaign in retaliation for a $700,000 suit launched against him earlier this year in connection with Pacific Energy and Mining Co., one of Mr. Ahmad's companies. "As part of Saxena's defense strategy in the civil action ... Saxena commenced publication of false, defamatory and libelous statements, all in order to force plaintiff to drop his suit," states Mr. Ahmad in the current action. (c) Copyright 2003 Canjex Publishing Ltd. stockwatch.com old url (better for printing) Pacific Energy & Mining Company

To: Scott Bergquist who wrote (7036)	7/12/2003 1:37:12 AM
From: Scott Bergquist	Respond to of 8683

DEBKA can be unreliable. However, interesting Iran/Korea story. The truth? Later? On October 25, 2002, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported in its No. 82 issue the suspicion in Washington that one of the two bombs allegedly hidden in Kim Jong II’s war chest was not North Korean at all, but Iranian. Our sources revealed that the Iranian bomb was delivered to North Korea in the third week of September under a secret agreement Kim-Jung Nan, the North Korean president’s overseer of his country’s military and nuclear relations, concluded in Tehran on July 24. Last week, DEBKA-Net-Weekly received fresh and surprising information on how this deal is being implemented. The information came from intelligence sources who checked out a detailed report on Iran’s clandestine nuclear program brought to Washington in early August by an Iranian exile in flight from the hard-line regime. That report found no willing listeners in the US government, which was busy at the time with its bid to rope Iran into the war against Iraq. On August 14, the exile called a select news conference and presented his report again. He still failed to attract serious official attention – until the North Koreans admitted to a secret nuclear program. Then, the powers that be in Washington began connecting nuclear dots. Intelligence agencies went to work and established that the Iranian exile’s report, gathering dust for three months, was spot on target, accurate in every detail. That report reveals that the two bombs smuggled to North Korea from Iran last September were the property of North Korea. However, they were manufactured and assembled in Iran under the secret Tehran-Pyongyang contract of last July. This means that North Korea secretly transferred its nuclear manufacturing facilities to the Islamic Republic. Specifically, North Korean plant for the production of all the essential components of the North Korean bombs, including equipment for uranium enrichment, was shifted lock, stock and barrel to Iran, where production has been taking place at two secret sites, both supervised by the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization. This state body is controlled by the National Security Council that defers only to Iran’s radical spiritual leader Ali Khamenei. The most important site, where nuclear fuel (enriched uranium) is produced, is located at Natanz, 100 miles north of Isfahan on the old Natanz-Kashan highway. A huge facility, big enough to employ hundreds of workers, it is buried many feet underground and set in layers of concrete. The director of this site is an IAEO official called Dawood Agha-Jani. The second site, producing heavy water, is at Arak in a place called Qatran Workshop close to the Qara-Chai River, three miles from Khondab in northern Azerbaijan. A second IAEO official, Daryoush Sheibani, heads this project. Unfinished structures were left at both locations to support official claims that building is uncompleted and the sites still inactive The Iranian exile’s report, as relayed to DEBKA-Net-Weekly , stressed that Iranian nuclear scientists and technicians were actively employed in every stage of production, their participation in the project in its entirety the essence of the secret Iranian-North Korean nuclear cooperation pact. Intelligence experts are still pondering the following missing information: --- After the two bombs were completed, did North Korea leave its nuclear equipment and manufacturing facilities behind in Iran? Our sources suggest it did - which means Iran is now equipped to manufacture bombs unaided, whether by Russia or anyone else - depending, of course, on the Iranian scientists having acquired the necessary proficiency to work independently. --- How much uranium was enriched? And what proportion, if any, stayed in Iran? The presumption is that Iran was left with enough to make between 8-12 bombs. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Washington sources add that the Bush administration is considering placing this information before Russian president Vladimir Putin as leverage to persuade him to come aboard, should the US decide on military action against Iran. After all, it would now appear that the Iranians used the Russian-assisted Bushehr project as a cover-up for their secret deal with North Korea, camouflage to obscure their progress towards a nuke of their own.