The New Republic has a story about Wolfowitz' confrontation with the government of Chad:
| Bank Statement Only at TNR Online | Post date 01.24.06 |
It's not front-page news, but Paul Wolfowitz is taking on a dictator again. And liberals, many of whom were aghast last year that an architect of the Iraq war had been tapped to lead the World Bank, should be applauding. In fact, some already are.
Two weeks ago, Chad's authoritarian president Idriss Déby effectively revoked a law requiring his government to spend 80 percent of the country's oil revenues on health, education, and infrastructure while placing 10 percent of the revenue in a fund for future generations. The law was part of a 2000 agreement in which the World Bank and an ExxonMobil-led oil consortium agreed to fund a massive project to extract Chadian oil and pipe it through Cameroon for export."
I quickly looked to see if this was a reference to me (how did Singh know I was a liberal?). It wasn't. I guess blogging doesn't provide instant celebrity status. Oh well. Singh's article has a good description of the original transaction.
