BUSH TIES TO QUESTIONABLE DIAMOND BUSINESS
Wayne Madsen
Following the recent visit of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila to Washington to meet with George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, details have emerged of a link between Bush's re-election campaign and a questionable diamond arrangement in the DRC. The link between the Bush campaign and the DRC diamond mining industry surrounds a Panamanian-registered Canadian company called Emaxon, headed by major Republican Party contributor Chaim Leibowitz. Emaxon has negotiated a virtual monopoly arrangement with the DRC diamond parastatal, Mini�re de Bakwanga (MIBA). According to well-placed diamond industry sources, the coupling of Leibowitz's diamond monopoly in the DRC and his financial backing of Bush and the Republican Party, in addition to the fact that the UN Envoy for the DRC is a pro-Bush American diplomat, William Swing, has called into question Bush's conflicts of interest in dealing with the DRC situation and the possibility that ill-gotten funds are being pumped into Bush's re-election campaign war chest. According to a source with DRC military intelligence, Leibowitz is "way too close" to the DRC leadership.
