Monday, November 08, 2004

Is this man Kosher?

US Ambassador to Greece Thomas Miller

"Ambassador to Greece, Thomas Miller, who was, until recently, the United States ambassador to Bosnia, is rumored to have conspired [in 2000] with Milorad Dodik, then prime minister of the Bosnian-Serb Republic, to divert $500,000 of an American aid package to the Gore/Lieberman campaign. This claim, made privately by a former minister in Dodik's government, has been confirmed by another highly placed source in Banja Luka, the capital of the Republika Srpska (RS).

The alleged deal was simple: in July [2000], Ambassador Miller is said to have arranged a multimillion-dollar ASAID grant for the RS budget. Once the money arrived in Banja Luka, half a million was allocated to the prime minister's "discretionary fund" -- over which he had exclusive control -- and promptly sent back to the United States as his contribution to the Gore/Lieberman campaign. This was not the only payment to a Western political figure from the fund (the existence of which Dodik admitted in a television interview last November), but it was the largest single disbursement....The partial disclosure of the Gore deal [was] published by the Banja Luka magazine Extra in February of 2000, [and] it looked like the cat was out of the bag. Interestingly, there has been no follow-up. Source. Chronicles. Aug.2001. p.6"
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