John Scarlett, who penned Iraq war dodgy dossier, knighted

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2112587.ece

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The elite seek out those who think as they do and promote them\put them into positions of power. (to paraphrase Alex Jones)

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I don't expect anyone visiting this forum could possibly be so naive as to be surprised by this. The Captain of the USS Liberty was given the Congressional Medal, the highest US honour, and given his choice of posts to reward him for his silence (only broken near the end of his life); Honours for loans/donations; Ambassordorships for financial assistance to US political parties ; Mc Namara made head of World Bank for a dozen years or so (safe pair of hands/sinecure); the lists must be endless. But as a Christian, I would ask them, and indeed everyone, Christ's question 'What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?' This won't impress non-believers, but 'Wot, me worry?'

[Hazzard]

Shocking .

So King Arthurs knights of the round table consist of fairy ponses, liers, cheats and child molesters.

Ooh jolly good, I bet that Dragon is just sh-sh-sh-shivering in its cave.

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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040509/ai_n12754 814

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http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=634

John Skarlett in Moscow (1976)

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[TonyGosling]

'Dodgy dossier' helper Sir John Scarlett take top Iraq oil job
By Martin Delgado - Last updated at 2:08 AM on 22nd May 2011
Tony Blair's former spy chief has been criticised for taking a job with a multi-national company which has won a lucrative contract to drill for oil in Iraq.
Sir John Scarlett, who helped draw up the so-called ‘dodgy dossier’ which accused Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction which could be deployed within 45 minutes, has been hired by Norwegian firm Statoil as a ‘strategic adviser’.
The 62-year-old former MI6 chief, right, who retired two years ago, was one of the intelligence officials most closely associated with the Allied invasion of Iraq in 2003. He was accused of being unduly influenced by Alastair Campbell, who was then No 10’s director of communications.
The 45-minute claim was one of the key assertions that convinced MPs to take Britain to war. Labour MP Paul Flynn said last night: ‘There is a bad smell about this, worse than oil.
‘If senior officials are involved in a particular area during their professional lives, there should be no chance of working in that same area when they retire. This would avoid any danger of them being distracted by the prospect of retirement riches.’
Norwegian-owned Statoil is one of the world’s largest oil and gas suppliers. It is a leading member of a consortium awarded exploration rights in the vast West Qurna oil field, west of Basra, in December 2009. The field is expected to yield 150,000 barrels of oil a day by 2013, making it one of the most productive in the Middle East.
Despite the controversy over the ‘dodgy dossier’, Sir John was knighted in 2007.
The consortium of which Statoil is a member beat off several other bidders for the Iraqi government contract, including BP.
Statoil declined to say how much Sir John would be paid. A spokesman said: ‘He will be on an advisory board to help us understand the geopolitical context in which we operate.’
The appointment has been approved by the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, which vets jobs taken by senior civil servants after they have left office to ensure there is no conflict of interest.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389550/Dodgy-dossier-John-Sca rlett-Iraq-oil-job.html
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments