"Anwar made his own bad choices during DC visit"

'FFF, once led by Anwar, funded by US govt'

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:51

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government Accountability Project (GAP), a Washington DC non-governmental whistle-blower organisation, has revealed that the Foundation for the Future (FFF), an organisation once headed by Anwar Ibrahim, was funded by the US government.

In its 42-page report released on July 8, GAP had based its findings on hundreds of documents delivered to it under the US Freedom of Information Act.

GAP said the FFF was actually established and funded by the US Department of State at the behest of Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of then vice-president Dick Cheney, and the Bush administration's neoconservatives.

A report by The Asia Sentinel, an Asian web-based publication, said GAP also found that the FFF was established and operated in a "highly irregular manner" by Bush administration officials and employees, including Shaha Ali Riza.

Shaha had been identified as the girlfriend of Paul Wolfowitz, and the latter was forced to leave the World Bank as its president in June 2007 after it became known that he had promoted Shaha to triple the World Bank's salary guidelines.

The Asia Sentinel claimed that Anwar had previously disavowed any US fundingfor FFF, established in 2005 as "an essential front on the global war on terror" and part of President George Bush's "freedom agenda" to promote democracy and reform in the Middle East and Africa.

Anwar had been asked by many, including Umno Youth head Khairy Jamaluddin, to explain the FFF's funding.

Matching money to fund the FFF was supposed to come from 11 countries.

Ultimately, GAP said, less than half of the US$60 million (RM193 million) in initial funding for the foundation (as envisioned by Elizabeth Cheney) ever materialised.

GAP said the great multilateral effort devolved into a unilateral US initiative supported only by a few countries, and eventually the major proportion of funding came from the US, in violation of the spirit of the legislation in creating the foundation.

- Bernama

"Anwar made his own bad choices during DC visit"

"Wolfowitz IS pure CIA, any ‘opposition leader’ of any country that calls this gangster ‘my friend’ is now, ipso facto, part of the CIA machine. This machine runs on FRIENDSHIPS and SECRET MEETINGS and DOUBLE TALK by these friends who lie to even their own families!" - Anwar made his own bad choices during DC visit - EMSNEWS

Excerpts:

"... When visiting Washington, when he was told to meet with various top leaders who are Jews in Congress and ‘other Jewish leaders’ what did (Anwar) do?

1. Hurry off to these meetings and then apologize and grovel?
2. Ask for US Jewish politicians to stop killing Muslims?
3. Tell them to go to hell and turn around and make a public visit to Turkey?

The answer was #1: grovel and apologize. I didn’t make this choice, HE made this choice. I didn’t even report on this, the neo-con far right wing Zionist editor of the Washington Post BOASTED about this! He thought it was funny. If I were Ibrahim, I would have chosen option #3 or if I was foolish and went off to visit a bunch of very angry Zionists in DC, I would have lectured them about their beastly behavior towards the Turks, the people trapped in Gaza and the West Bank and ethnic cleansing in general."

So why blame Utusan and Umno only? Between his great apology to his friends in Washington over his anti-Semitic remarks (which is a fact) and the claim that he is a CIA agent (which is an allegation), Anwar made his own bad choices during his DC visit. Read MORE.

Read also Bernama's Anwar Not Loyal to Country, quoting Dr M, who was responding to a question by this blogger.