Murder Of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya, by ''Jihadists''-What The Mainstream Media Might Not Be Telling Us

The brutal murder of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi and apparent mutilation of his body after (what has been reported as) brutalized torture may well have been replaced with the sanitized version of rocket-propelled grenades ending his life to spare his family and the rest of the world from the occupational hazards of Westerners doing business in Libya today. But is the sanitized version of events (assuming the CNN,Fox,BBC and Sky versions are knowingly doctored) doing a service or dis-service as we try to make sense of the chaos in North Africa today,who is fueling it and how it will impact our diplomatic,trade and cultural ties with the new Islamic regimes? How have we reached a point where the sanctity of an Embassy (let alone the bestial murder of diplomats and their guards within the confines of their own territory) is now beginning to be regarded as 'matter of fact'. This is the first issue which the Western mass media fails to address because it is largely 'staffed' with status quo 'embedded' reporters who have no independence of thought,no knowledge of the profound nature of diplomatic immunity and where 'honest' and 'truthful' analysis is more often met with heavy censorship at the sub-editorial level. I should also add at this point that we ourselves are not immune to criticism for debasing the value of this much-cherished tradition of diplomatic inviolability by our treatment of Ecuador whose London Embassy is still being 'punished' for offering political asylum to someone who is now,in effect, a political prisoner -perhaps the world's foremost political prisoner, at this point in time. I mention this international diplomatic incident because it yet again highlights the risks to our own embassies when our adversaries perceive diplomatic immunity as only applicable as and when global super-powers so determine-with smaller and poorer nations treated with contempt when asking that the same rules and standards be applied-in this instance with an offer of diplomatic asylum to a 'political dissident'.

 Going back in time,what struck me about the brutal murder of Colonel Gaddafi was the 'matter-of-fact' way it was reported by our media in the West. Almost as if we were saying to our own public and the world: 'well, he deserved it,let his own people butcher him. See what we can do when you oppose our wishes.' Again, in my opinion, we made a critical mistake here. Too many political careers were at risk if Gaddafi lived-and talked. But allowing a Salafist Jihadi Militia brigade to torture then murder and mutilate him-and ensure that the whole world saw the end result of NATO's (humanitarian) intervention-Gaddafi's mutilated naked body on public display-is a far cry from the high and lofty values of both the European Union and NATO-as a peace-keeping organization seeking to assist the Libyan people free themselves from tyranny and establish a democratic state.

Secondly,the CIA and MI6 'rendered' Libyans for interrogation and torture to Libya during the Gaddafi era. To think that the Libyans have any shorter memories than any other race of people - brutalized through repression of their politics or faith - is either naive or the height of arrogance and ignorance. From what I have observed,I would think the latter. This arrogance in itself created a false sense of security-which was very easily exploited. It was assumed that,with one tyrant out of the way-and giving the 'nod' to a 'reign of terror' against former Gaddafi henchmen and prominent supporters by the new tyrants in power, the remaining populace holding any lingering support for Gaddafi would now be so brutalized,fearful,traumatized and docile, that Libya would be open for 'business as usual' again.

This fails to appreciate the recent history of a country brutalized under Italian  colonization then handed by the victorious Allies after World War II to another repressive tyrant-to do the West's bidding by proxy.

 For brevity, I will only go on to mention one further miscalculation which,in my opinion,contributed to the murder of Ambassador Stevens: As I discovered in my travels in Malaysia (in particular) after 9/11, while Americans mourn that day,others rejoice. I said it then and I say it again, Osama Bin Laden has been elevated to the status of a 'saint' or as someone close to the right hand of the Prophet in the eyes of many Muslims-especially after the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq as more and more Muslims saw 9/11 as a U.S. (Judeo-Christian) conspiracy to conquer and occupy Muslim lands in the name of oil and gas. This has become more and more apparent to me in my travels and discussions in Muslim lands. But the mass media ignored this and chose to portray Bin Laden as a hated and reviled figure-even to his fellow Muslims-or apologists will say that of the 1.4 billion Muslims very few have time for the likes of Bin Laden. In my opinion this is not true and is a very over-simplistic overview. For many Muslims in the Middle East  and elsewhere, Bin Laden is seen (and indeed portrayed in their eyes) as a modern Muslim 'Joan of Arc'.

We often forget that Islam is not just a religion but a way of life. Bin Laden should, in my opinion, have been 'brought to justice' and yes,dare I have the temerity to say it,tried in a court of law in the United States - giving some real sense of closure to victims of 9/11.  I said so much in 2002 and I repeat it again.

So far have we ventured into the jungle beyond the rule of law than any thought of an option other than a swift execution was unthinkable.

But even settling for that (revenge),the world (in particular the Muslim world) would have had more respect for the United States if at this very testing moment,the capture of Osama Bin Laden,it had lived up to Jeffersonian principles rather than those of the Taliban, Salafist and Wahhabist fanatics.

In my opinion,a whole series of events, not entirely having their origin in Libya, conspired in the murder of Ambassador Stevens:United States offshore sub-contacted torture centers after 9/11-one of which was Libya itself;a total breakdown by all sides of the principles of The Geneva Convention for the treatment of prisoners of war in this 'War on Terror'(in the case of Libya,the 'treatment' of Colonel Gaddafi after his 'arrest' his brutal torture and execution- yet again denying all his victims their day of justice through a civilized and universally accepted due process-arrest,trial in a court of law and punishment.) The spurious and dubious claims that 'terrorists' in 'undeclared' wars do not qualify for protection under the Geneva Convention is simply further undermining and chipping away at foundations which have the potential to ensure that our own PoWs in the hands of 'terrorists' are unlikely to be ever afforded any sense of hope (if not dignity) rather than our men and women in combat having to fight to the last bullet,then take a suicide pill rather than risk capture at the hands of an enemy which will likewise show little mercy and has absolutely nothing to loose-either as suicide bombers or as mujaheddin fighters. It is likely that the perpetrators of the murder of Ambassador Stevens were Salafist Jihadis-but we will never be told this because,as with 9/11, the trail of the Salafists would lead back to Saudi Arabia and while blood is thick,oil is thicker. Some excuse (decoy or 'fall-guy') will be made to get the Saudis 'off the hook'. No number of murders of Western Diplomats or their bodyguards (or indeed Muslims seen to be weakening Islamic values in favor of the West or,to be more precise,in their eyes,'in favor of the Infidel') in mineral and oil-rich Muslim lands will alter our policy of involvement in the internal political affairs in these lands-hence we will continue to incur the enmity of ordinary Muslim men and women who are seeking less not more Western involvement in their political (hence also religious,social and cultural life-as Islam is a way of life not just a religion) affairs. Because of this,incidents such as the desecration of the inviolable sanctity of embassies and missions is,sadly,only likely to increase in the future in these turbulent lands.

A Marshall Plan for the Levant and North Africa in the 1960s in tandem with the European Coal and Steel Community would have, more likely than not,created peace and stability for centuries but sadly (Western Christian) racism,imperialism and religious bigotry at that time got in the way. It is clearly too late now for such a plan or any semblance of any economic initiative for impoverished Muslim lands coming from the Christian world. The ordinary Muslim people of North Africa and the Levant have now rejected Western values in their totality and will seek economic and political salvation through Islam henceforth.

Relationships with the Christian world will be secondary to the deepening of Islamic integration. The Arab Spring has just increased the momentum of integration.

The European Union is seeking greater involvement and looking at economic development projects-at a time when the ordinary people are no longer seeing Europe as a source of anything other than the EU representing yet another of many Christian (or Judeo-Christian) scheme(s) for exploitation and economic conquest of Muslim lands which, as they perceive, will be designed to keep the Muslim people impoverished en masse by catering only for a pro-Western (and 'unIslamic') elite in these Muslim lands.

This is the thinking behind the Jihadi extremists we have put in power in North Africa and are currently assisting to seize power in Syria.

The European Union is as remote from the changed realities in North Africa and the Middle East

as U.S. foreign policy more often than not appears to be.

It was somewhere in the vortex of such convoluted chaos,anarchy, failed hopes and dreams, that Ambassador Stevens was,to all valid accounts,very brutally slain. No doubt if such was indeed the case, we will yet reap another whirlwind to the anger created by one very badly produced and directed movie,'The Innocence of Muslims';if the trailer was anything to go by. (Indeed if it was not such a serious matter-the desecration of the Prophet's reputation-the movie trailer itself is so bad that it's farcical-also to the extreme.) It is generally accepted that that this badly produced and directed movie was simply Islamic extremists 'cover' for the premeditated murder on 9/11 of Ambassador Stevens. The likely videoing of this brutal incident and its future transmission over the Internet by the perpetrators is not beyond the realms of possibility. Again this would be 'eye for eye' (Islamic) justice ( revenge ) through the contorted lenses of Jihadi Salafists. How should we react if this also happens-apart of course by banning transmission by blocking servers where possible and practicable? Again my advice is not to play into the hands of these very evil individuals. Far too often we match evil with evil-which begets more evil. I can understand the hysteria and political pressure for revenge-especially in the United States-where Senators and Congress will be under intolerable pressure to do something.

We should always remember that these Jihadists who murdered Ambassador Stevens would like to see our world descend to their same level of inhumanity,bestiality,extremism and religious-political fanaticism and (Christian) societal control of the masses so that the 'playing field' is evenly matched-and we are giving them our world,it's values and civilization decapitated  and served on a silver platter - if we play into their hands. To conclude, I have spent time trying to place into context some events which came before the invasion of the sovereign territory of The United States and murder of it's Ambassador to Libya. It is not possible to simply disconnect this event from the sequential descent from our Greek-inherited civilization of democracy into the total disregard for all manners of international laws,obligations and protections of basic human,civil and combatant rights-unless we (Europeans-the European Union- and the United States) determine who qualifies for them as such are the examples used to ignite passions and into which extremists can tap when recruiting novices into armies,warriors or martyrs of Allah (as Jihadists.)

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We have gone far too far already in terms of rendition,offshore prisons for combatants,torture of prisoners of war (and yes,whether you want to hear it or not, captured Taliban, Al-Qaeda  and Salafist fighters,however nauseating,are,when captured alive, prisoners of war or PoWs.);internal (State) surveillance,personal intrusion and loss of civil liberties and all under the banner of the 'fight against terrorism';lets hope we can not just refrain from knee-jerk reactions if confronted with such a heinous video but at some point start to reverse and tear down the walls we are building around ourselves,as blocks,countries,communities and as individuals as our advanced technologies renders us less rather than more safe  it  also renders our enemies as remote as the technology we use to attempt to eliminate them-equally rendering the prospects of peaceful transition of power without mass bloodshed and carnage on medieval scales less likely in future wars.

Bringing the perpetrators of this savage and cowardly murder of an Ambassador to justice in a court of law by trial and jury in the United States would be a more fitting tribute to the life and legacy of Ambassador Stevens and the principles of democracy,accountability and justice he represented than  that of  targeted revenge.

Patrick Emek 15.09.2012 6.00 a.m.

Fallen Angels:Sex Before Lunch & Work-The Economist 'Accuses' DSK Of New Sex Crime!

To show how bizarre we have now become as a species I read today a report in the Economist On-Line,written by someone anonymously quoted by the name of 'S.P.' and filed in from Paris at 10.23 a.m. today of how Dominique Strauss Kahn had,on the controversial day in question, and I paraphrase the Economist, a sexual encounter before having a (normal) lunch with his daughter and then as a follow-on from lunch intending to leave New York by plane for work in Europe.
What a crime!
Of course the writer of the article in the Ecomomist attributes the comments to someone else - and who else other than Sylvie Kauffman, the Editor of 'Le Monde',as reported to have told the New York Times!
So The Economist is now happy to report, as fact, third hand information sexed up to appear as if it is,in relation to lunch with his daughter then blast off, some inappropriate or an unnatural act outside the comprehension of human sexual behaviour or understanding and make it appear by implication that Mr Strauss Kahn is some sort of abnormal hetrosexual beyond the pale of all current normal sexually,racially and politically correct comprehension.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/08/dominique-strauss-kahn
I wonder if the writer of this Economist story was over the age of 8 - or indeed if he/she gave the story to some other kindergarten relative to write up because he/she was too busy doing something else that day?
Are we just in denial of our sexual behaviour or have we,as a society become so insanely politically and sexually correct that we simply can no longer look ourselves in the mirror when it comes to understanding our own sexuality and human behaviour?
Or is it that when we (or at least some of us) look at ourselves what we see is so frightening, so fascinating and so erotically compelling that, with equal disgust and fascination, we want to reach through the looking glass and pull the exotic side of our animal nature from the world beyond-for just one moment - to experience what the politically and sexually correct prisons we have built for ourselves will not permit us to engage in, but again, looking over our shoulders and coming to our outraged moral senses, recoil in horror at the last moment of climax and write such trashy denial stories as the one I have just read in the Economist to justify, satisfy and sanctify our own totally confused, totally disorientated and dysfunctional sexual alter egos.

The article then goes on to make, what I think is a wholly unjustifiable
remark (not again coming direct from the Economist, of course, but again second or third hand reports) quoting faceless and nameless African-American groups campaigning against sexual and domestic violence about how the word of a powerful white man is being pitted against this poor innocent black woman and how the failure to prosecute this case is racially motivated.
At least the white editor of Le Monde is named but,as Blacks,why bother to name these African-American groups-they just remain out of sight and out of recognition to the French or french-based writer of this story for the Economist-benefitting as it will from the spoils of the racial dust it has vicariously kicked up.
The article to me reflects more about the French attitudes to race and disgust at racial intercourse and sexual relations between,specifically, an older White man and a younger Black African woman and the rather bizarre French and (perhaps Anglo-Saxon) societal complexes to sexuality and race than they do about sexual activities which Mr Strauss Kahn (or Señor Berlusconi for that matter)as a normal,healthy highly active hetrosexual might do - with no particular qualms about the race religion nor the sex of his partner.
This article therefore in my opinion is not about the guilt or innocence of Dominique Strauss Kahn nor indeed about his future for which the Economist appears to be shedding crocodile tears, but puts on trial and in focus more the bizarre French attitudes and psychological complexes to sex,race,power,age,sexuality and political correctness.
There may be more to the story but I read it as infantile,purile and more appropriate for a pre-adolescent smutty and titillating magazine rumouring and scaremongering about age, sex, race power and sexual political correctness rather than a serious factual article,the latter of which I would have expected to read from the pages of the Economist in an earlier era.

Oh how the mighty have fallen together!
Is nothing sacred anymore in this world!


Patrick Emek B.A. (Hons) Psych
Europe
August 23rd 2011

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Set Up?

I met on Sunday with an individual who gave me information not yet in the public domain about the unnamed chambermaid making allegations against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director, Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the intended main challenger to President Sarkozy as the next President of France.
The person I met said, basically, that the woman involved in the allegation has a history of sexual dysfunctionali

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ty which makes here prone to making allegations after suggestive encounters towards men-not for attention seeking reasons but because of her own profile and background with relationships going back to her childhood.
‘’Because she is an immigrant her own background as a child may be hard to uncover and she is also in the unique position of having complete anonymity under US law-until she decides voluntarily to ‘cash in’ on this affair.’’
As the alleged victim,should anyone attempt to reveal her identity they too become liable to criminal prosecution.
At this point, whether guilty or not, Strauss-Kahn is ruined politically and socially.
‘’The only people with the capability of unearthing the facts are the USCIS the FBI and the CIA and most likely all three agencies will be required to take a back seat as it’s a US Police local state (not Federal) matter and only the Justice Department will be involved.’’
As a Euro sceptic I have always been against most things which are EU-orientated.
Indeed for many years I have supported an anti-European Union group as I share it’s sentiments-so I am the last person in the world to want to say any good words about the EU or it’s officials.
Why would anyone want to ‘set-up’ Strauss-Kahn and who benefits from his absence from key talks about the Euro and it’s future hanging as they are in the balance?
What would be the global implications of the collapse of the Euro as a single currency and how would it affect the dollar?
Strauss-Kahn is undoubtedly a brilliant economist and visionary in his own field.
He is singularly credited with saving the Euro from collapse by his ability to persuade
Germany to buy into a rescue package with the prospect that it will emerge as
the economic super-giant of the European continent when the European economies recover-which they eventually will.
How would this emergence affect Europe’s relationship with the United States and the rest of the world?
Let’s stick with the facts as known at present and remove the hype.
Is it credible to believe that Mr Strauss-Kahn would, without being solicited, actively commit a sexual assault of the kind he is being accused of?
The answer is currently unknown but as in the Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) case, there are troubling doubts-not about his guilt but about the scenarios of alleged guilt given the critical timings.
''Even if he is eventually proved to be guilty of attempted rape that does not preclude the possibility of him having being set up to commit a crime.
Entrapment of high-profile individuals by rival companies and corporations is not unknown in the world in which we live.''
It is known that there have been prior issues affecting Mr Strauss-Kahn in his work environment and this alone is likely to heighten suspicions about his guilt-even before a fair trial.
Already today an individual in France is alleging attempted assault and other individuals may see this as the time to also bring forward past affairs or grievances.
''These issues however were matters, as I gather, which could affect many co-workers working or travelling together for prolong periods of time and under great stress and should not have a bearing on any current accusation-but in this case they undoubtedly will-making it impossible for Mr Strauss-Kahn to be given a fair trial in the United States in the glare of media publicity which will now devour every aspect of the man’s private and public life.''
Back to the crises in Europe. Mr Strauss-Kahn is being replaced in these complex negotiations between economically ailing Euro zone countries and the IMF by someone who has only months of experience as a Deputy Director and lacks the charisma and ‘fixing’ abilities across so complex an economic structure which Strauss-Kahn is reputed to possess.
Why is such an international high profile individual who cannot flee nor hide anywhere in the world being held in custody and not released on bail to continue his work-which is critical to the future of Europe?
Even if he is released on bail or bond assurance, such is the damage done to his reputation that he may find it impossible to function in his current role at this critical juncture in EU-IMF relations such will be the detraction of this issue.
This will have immediate effects on the course and direction of the negotiations-especially if European leaders lose faith in his credibility-which is highly likely.
Of course everyone can be replaced-but in time. So the timing is critical in this instance.
The Justice Department of The United States is fully aware of his role in IMF
discussions aimed at saving the Euro and ensuring that Portugal, Greece, Spain and Ireland do not default so why are they not prepared to release him on bail in order that this work, vital to the unity of the European continent as an economic block can continue?
They would quite rightly answer because he is being arrainged on a serious criminal matter and the issue of bail and bond is a matter for a judge at a hearing and is not the Justice Department's decision.
In so high profile a case, The New York State Criminal Justice Department, the U.S. Justice Department and even The State Department could conceivably intervene with their own conflicting recommendations.

The alternative interpretation of this event could be very troubling and not at all related to the alleged crime.
Which currency, I was asked, most benefits with the collapse of the Euro as a single currency?
''The dollar has never been in a more precarious condition than it is today-under pressure from the Yuan.
The emerging Russian Rouble is poised to affect the Eurozone in a way Strauss-Kahn has been working to positively and co-operatively pre-empt.''
Russia managed to prevent a global meltdown of its financial and industrial institutions several years ago when, what it perceived as an external conspiracy to place control of it's key strategic resources into the hands of hostile foreign corporations and place the country into a future situation of indebtedness was foiled.
President Putin, a former intelligence officer, could never prove a conspiracy to bankrupt and seriously indebt the country so Russian authorities responded by promptly arresting and serving warrants for the arrest of all the oligarchs they could get within it’s own territory who were believed to be part of this unproven conspiracy and charged them on spurious economic crimes grounds-justified or not.
Today, the Rouble is, like the Yuan, emerging as one of the future challengers to the Dollar-and the Euro-worldwide.
Strauss-Kahn was involved in other delicate discussions-to bring the European Union and Russia into a closer economic union-and to persuade The German Chancellor Merkel to accept Turkey as a de facto associate member of the European Union with the issues of Cyprus and immigration being left for longer term settlement-should the Turks agree not to press for full membership.
From what I gather, a complex man involved in intricate and complex issues profoundly affecting all our lives-now incarcerated in a U.S. jail and being paraded by U.S. Detectives from court hearing to court hearing as an indicted common criminal.
The gut instinct of Chancellor Merkel and other European politicians will be to drop him like a stone as the political fall-out from having such an albatross could be even more damaging.
No doubt many former colleagues will now try to distance themselves as far as possible from Mr Strauss-Kahn fearing the outcome on their own political careers.
Strauss-Kahn’s impact as the most likely future President of France would have been even more profound. Even the incumbent President, Sarkozy, would admit he (Sarkozy) is not a brilliant economist. Having a man like Strauss Kahn running France and with German money and drive behind him, this powerful combination could have conceivably lifted Europe out of the economic recession faster than it will now take with the absence of so powerful an alliance of brilliance, brains, connections, fixing ability money and brawn - as all in unison would have effectively implemented an EU-structured Marshall Plan to save the economic union.
Should any of the above prove true, (and I have been offered nor am offering any proof), then key personnel involved in critical aspects of EU policies may well be advised to take extra special precautions to avoid entrapment when on business or holiday trips abroad.
If such proves to be the case, it would be reminiscent of the Cold War days when civil servants and other commercial and local government officials were expressly forbidden to travel behind the Iron Curtain without governmental permission

It may well also be advisable to have a new set of rules governing the arrest of suspects so as to ensure that all are guaranteed protection from publicity under the law
until conviction takes place as often the unproven allegations alone can destroy a life and a career.
.

The stakes are very high-a fact not appreciated by the general public since it's difficult to have access to a complete picture of exactly what is happening and how one issue affects another in a world where information overload creates as much confusion as it's paucity.

Either this story represents the personal tragedy and the untimely end of a brilliant career of an individual who has succumbed to human failings at a most historically unfortunate time for Europe or a new, very vicious and very ugly chapter is emerging in the global fight for currency domination.

I would hope that the former is the case so that one day Mr Strauss-Kahn and his victim will both be able to re-build their shattered lives and that the victim of this crime will see the justice she deserves.

In conclusion, in the world we live, human failings and high public office do not go hand in hand.
Is it any wonder that the most gifted and able individuals in this world avoid politics, high profile and public office like the plague.

I left my contact with many questions unanswered and unresolved and with a heavy heart.

Patrick Emek
Europe
Monday 16th May 2011
10.30am

I met on Sunday with an individual who gave me information not yet in the public domain about the unnamed chambermaid making allegations against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director, Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the intended main challenger to President Sarkozy as the next President of France.
The person I met said, basically, that the woman involved in the allegation has a history of sexual dysfunctionality which makes here prone to making allegations after suggestive encounters towards men-not for attention seeking reasons but because of her own profile and background with relationships going back to her childhood.
‘’Because she is an immigrant her own background as a child may be hard to uncover and she is also in the unique position of having complete anonymity under US law-until she decides voluntarily to ‘cash in’ on this affair.’’
As the alleged victim,should anyone attempt to reveal her identity they too become liable to criminal prosecution.
At this point, whether guilty or not, Strauss-Kahn is ruined politically and socially.
‘’The only people with the capability of unearthing the facts are the USCIS the FBI and the CIA and most likely all three agencies will be required to take a back seat as it’s a US Police local state (not Federal) matter and only the Justice Department will be involved.’’
As a Euro sceptic I have always been against most things which are EU-orientated.
Indeed for many years I have supported an anti-European Union group as I share it’s sentiments-so I am the last person in the world to want to say any good words about the EU or it’s officials.
Why would anyone want to ‘set-up’ Strauss-Kahn and who benefits from his absence from key talks about the Euro and it’s future hanging as they are in the balance?
What would be the global implications of the collapse of the Euro as a single currency and how would it affect the dollar?
Strauss-Kahn is undoubtedly a brilliant economist and visionary in his own field.
He is singularly credited with saving the Euro from collapse by his ability to persuade
Germany to buy into a rescue package with the prospect that it will emerge as
the economic super-giant of the European continent when the European economies recover-which they eventually will.
How would this emergence affect Europe’s relationship with the United States and the rest of the world?
Let’s stick with the facts as known at present and remove the hype.
Is it credible to believe that Mr Strauss-Kahn would, without being solicited, actively commit a sexual assault of the kind he is being accused of?
The answer is currently unknown but as in the Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) case, there are troubling doubts-not about his guilt but about the scenarios of alleged guilt given the critical timings.
''Even if he is eventually proved to be guilty of attempted rape that does not preclude the possibility of him having being set up to commit a crime.
Entrapment of high-profile individuals by rival companies and corporations is not unknown in the world in which we live.''
It is known that there have been prior issues affecting Mr Strauss-Kahn in his work environment and this alone is likely to heighten suspicions about his guilt-even before a fair trial.
Already today an individual in France is alleging attempted assault and other individuals may see this as the time to also bring forward past affairs or grievances.
''These issues however were matters, as I gather, which could affect many co-workers working or travelling together for prolong periods of time and under great stress and should not have a bearing on any current accusation-but in this case they undoubtedly will-making it impossible for Mr Strauss-Kahn to be given a fair trial in the United States in the glare of media publicity which will now devour every aspect of the man’s private and public life.''
Back to the crises in Europe. Mr Strauss-Kahn is being replaced in these complex negotiations between economically ailing Euro zone countries and the IMF by someone who has only months of experience as a Deputy Director and lacks the charisma and ‘fixing’ abilities across so complex an economic structure which Strauss-Kahn is reputed to possess.
Why is such an international high profile individual who cannot flee nor hide anywhere in the world being held in custody and not released on bail to continue his work-which is critical to the future of Europe?
Even if he is released on bail or bond assurance, such is the damage done to his reputation that he may find it impossible to function in his current role at this critical juncture in EU-IMF relations such will be the detraction of this issue.
This will have immediate effects on the course and direction of the negotiations-especially if European leaders lose faith in his credibility-which is highly likely.
Of course everyone can be replaced-but in time. So the timing is critical in this instance.
The Justice Department of The United States is fully aware of his role in IMF
discussions aimed at saving the Euro and ensuring that Portugal, Greece, Spain and Ireland do not default so why are they not prepared to release him on bail in order that this work, vital to the unity of the European continent as an economic block can continue?
They would quite rightly answer because he is being arrainged on a serious criminal matter and the issue of bail and bond is a matter for a judge at a hearing and is not the Justice Department's decision.
In so high profile a case, The New York State Criminal Justice Department, the U.S. Justice Department and even The State Department could conceivably intervene with their own conflicting recommendations.

The alternative interpretation of this event could be very troubling and not at all related to the alleged crime.
Which currency, I was asked, most benefits with the collapse of the Euro as a single currency?
''The dollar has never been in a more precarious condition than it is today-under pressure from the Yuan.
The emerging Russian Rouble is poised to affect the Eurozone in a way Strauss-Kahn has been working to positively and co-operatively pre-empt.''
Russia managed to prevent a global meltdown of its financial and industrial institutions several years ago when, what it perceived as an external conspiracy to place control of it's key strategic resources into the hands of hostile foreign corporations and place the country into a future situation of indebtedness was foiled.
President Putin, a former intelligence officer, could never prove a conspiracy to bankrupt and seriously indebt the country so Russian authorities responded by promptly arresting and serving warrants for the arrest of all the oligarchs they could get within it’s own territory who were believed to be part of this unproven conspiracy and charged them on spurious economic crimes grounds-justified or not.
Today, the Rouble is, like the Yuan, emerging as one of the future challengers to the Dollar-and the Euro-worldwide.
Strauss-Kahn was involved in other delicate discussions-to bring the European Union and Russia into a closer economic union-and to persuade The German Chancellor Merkel to accept Turkey as a de facto associate member of the European Union with the issues of Cyprus and immigration being left for longer term settlement-should the Turks agree not to press for full membership.
From what I gather, a complex man involved in intricate and complex issues profoundly affecting all our lives-now incarcerated in a U.S. jail and being paraded by U.S. Detectives from court hearing to court hearing as an indicted common criminal.
The gut instinct of Chancellor Merkel and other European politicians will be to drop him like a stone as the political fall-out from having such an albatross could be even more damaging.
No doubt many former colleagues will now try to distance themselves as far as possible from Mr Strauss-Kahn fearing the outcome on their own political careers.
Strauss-Kahn’s impact as the most likely future President of France would have been even more profound. Even the incumbent President, Sarkozy, would admit he (Sarkozy) is not a brilliant economist. Having a man like Strauss Kahn running France and with German money and drive behind him, this powerful combination could have conceivably lifted Europe out of the economic recession faster than it will now take with the absence of so powerful an alliance of brilliance, brains, connections, fixing ability money and brawn - as all in unison would have effectively implemented an EU-structured Marshall Plan to save the economic union.
Should any of the above prove true, (and I have been offered nor am offering any proof), then key personnel involved in critical aspects of EU policies may well be advised to take extra special precautions to avoid entrapment when on business or holiday trips abroad.
If such proves to be the case, it would be reminiscent of the Cold War days when civil servants and other commercial and local government officials were expressly forbidden to travel behind the Iron Curtain without governmental permission

It may well also be advisable to have a new set of rules governing the arrest of suspects so as to ensure that all are guaranteed protection from publicity under the law
until conviction takes place as often the unproven allegations alone can destroy a life and a career.
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The stakes are very high-a fact not appreciated by the general public since it's difficult to have access to a complete picture of exactly what is happening and how one issue affects another in a world where information overload creates as much confusion as it's paucity.

Either this story represents the personal tragedy and the untimely end of a brilliant career of an individual who has succumbed to human failings at a most historically unfortunate time for Europe or a new, very vicious and very ugly chapter is emerging in the global fight for currency domination.

I would hope that the former is the case so that one day Mr Strauss-Kahn and his victim will both be able to re-build their shattered lives and that the victim of this crime will see the justice she deserves.

In conclusion, in the world we live, human failings and high public office do not go hand in hand.
Is it any wonder that the most gifted and able individuals in this world avoid politics, high profile and public office like the plague.

I left my contact with many questions unanswered and unresolved and with a heavy heart.

Patrick Emek
Europe
Monday 16th May 2011
10.30am

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