>>4085216 5199

Worst outbreak you say. DWB said that they had it contained and would pull out not too long back.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/395219-doctors-without-borders-to-pull-out-of-congo-as-ebola-scare-wanes

INTERNATIONALJuly 02, 2018 - 03:19 PM EDTDoctors Without Borders to pull out of Congo as Ebola scare wanesBY REID WILSON188TWEET SHARE MORE

Doctors Without Borders will end its involvement in the international response to an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the heart of Africa later this month, a sign that public health officials believe the outbreak has been largely contained.

Doctors Without Borders, also called Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), had been tasked with operating treatment facilities in four towns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where patients tested positive for the Ebola virus. The group cared for 38 patients, 24 of whom survived.

MSF began winding down its involvement in the Congolese outbreak late last month, handing over operation of Ebola wards in the towns of Itipo and Bikoro to Congo’s Ministry of Health. 

>>4085290 5199

Older but related

https://anhamcorp.wordpress.com/tag/huda-farouki/

The Pentagon is investigating whether the main food and water supplier to U.S. forces in Afghanistan illegally moved provisions bound for U.S. service members through an Iranian port, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Anham FZCO was awarded a contract by the United States Defense Logistics Agency in the summer of 2012 — worth an estimated $8.1 billion — to provide food, water, and produce to American forces throughout Afghanistan.

According to the Journal, Anham shipped equipment it needed to establish the infrastructure for its food supply system in Afghanistan — steel, tractors, and refrigeration panels — through the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

After Journal inquiries, the company notified U.S. government authorities that some supplies had been moved by its foreign subcontractors through Iran and that it was trying to determine what had happened.

While Iran is the least expensive and most straightforward route for moving supplies into Afghanistan, U.S. law prohibits conducting business with Iran as a way to pressure that country into curbing enrichment of uranium which the United States and its allies believe is part of Teheran’s push for nuclear weapons.

Two Republican senators, Mark Kirk of Illinois and New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte had called on the Pentagon’s Inspector General to probe whether Anham had done business with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard which has economic control over the Bandar Abbas port, according to the Journal.

>>4086529

A little more…related ties to politicians

https://dailycaller.com/2013/09/30/clinton-donors-get-a-pass-on-shady-contracting/

In June 2011, the Defense Department’s Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released a scathing report on a defense contracting company called Anham. The title of the report and its conclusion were the same: “Poor Government Oversight of Anham and Its Subcontracting Procedures Allowed Questionable Costs To Go Undetected.”

Dubai-based Anham and its “affiliated” subcontractors were awarded a $119 million contract in 2007 to provide materials to the Iraqi Security Forces. The DOD review analyzed Anham’s business practices for contracts representing 40 percent of its award, or $40 million taxpayer dollars and found problems and irregularities in Anham’s estimating and billing, sub-contractor relationships, and delivery confirmations.

The report recommended that the Office of the Secretary of Defense further monitor and review much of Anham’s contracting activity in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So how did Anham then go on to win an $8 billion multi-year contract in Afghanistan which allowed it to illegally ship supplies through two Iranian border crossings and a seaport controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?

Mr. Farouki is a successful entrepreneur with demonstrable fealty to the Democratic Party. His wife and children also support liberal politicians. One need only follow their wallets to arrive at this conclusion.

Personally, and through his businesses, Mr. Farouki has been donating to Democrats since the mid-1990s. During the 2004 Democratic primaries, he financially supported both John Kerry and John Edwards. In 2000, he gave at least $67,000 to the Democratic National Committee, while Mrs. Farouki making a small donation to the Bush campaign, presumably to hedge their bets.

The Faroukis are a longtime donors to California Senator Dianne Feinstein, their neighbor in Aspen, current member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Military Construction and Appropriations Committee for many years. Feinstein has attracted wide criticism when defense contracting companies affiliated with her husband received favorable status in contract awards. They have also been generous to Virginia Congressman Jim Moran, whose election bids have been fraught with illegal donations from contractors, and who serves on the House Defense Appropriations Committee.

Obama For America benefitted from Farouki generosity with multiple contributions made in 2008 — before Anham was awarded another $8 billion from the administration after his fraudulent business practices became a matter of public record.

The family’s closest affiliation is with the Clintons. Between 1995 and 2008, Farouki family members — including two associated with the same UniTrans International, under scrutiny for the Iran transshipment — made at least 19 donations to Clinton-associated campaigns. Since 2005, Farouki has participated in The Clinton Global Initiative, and during his presidency, Bill Clinton appointed him to the prestigious advisory board for Washington’s Kennedy Center.

>>4086559

And a little bit back some more…

https://electronicintifada.net/content/making-business-out-palestines-struggle/8620

Hani Masri and Abul Huda Farouki founded Palestine Note in early 2009. Masri and Farouki are two businessmen and Democratic Party fundraisers with connections to the PA, as well as the lobbying group the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP).

The two men epitomize the kind of Arab-American political strategies that have created few benefits for Arab-Americans as a community, and achieved almost no benefits to the Palestinian people — even if they have been personally beneficial for the two men themselves. Further, the tactics they have adopted have flouted the very principles that create the basis of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Masri has been an active donor to the Democratic Party. In addition to a $5,000 donation to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, in January 2009, Masri donated $2,000 to Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D-NY) (see Center for Responsive Politics, search for “Hani Masri”). Weiner is the Congressman from the 9th district of New York who is notorious for his anti-Palestinian views. In 2007, Rep. Weiner tried to outlaw the Palestine Liberation Organization in the United States (HR 2975, 110th Congress). In September 2009, progressive Jewish blogger Philip Weiss documented a town hall meeting where Weiner “trash[ed] Jimmy Carter” for his mild criticism of Israel, said that “Israel has no partners in Palestinians, who vote for terrorists,” and denied that settlements were problematic in the so-called peace process (MondoWeiss, “Anthony Weiner Goes From Right Wing Thug to Brilliant Populist in a New York Second”). Weiner ended his meeting uttering the words “am yisrael chai,” a slogan meaning “the Jewish nation is alive” and which is particularly associated with right-wing extremists in Israel. Weiner’s open and proven anti-Palestinian views and politics did not stop Masri, who is on the Board of Directors of ATFP, from donating to the campaign.

Sadly, Abul Huda Farouki’s money trail is hardly cleaner. Farouki recently donated $50,000 to former Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for Virginia governor. More troublingly, Farouki apparently had business connections to the Bush Administration. In 2004, a contract worth $327 million to equip the Iraqi army-under-occupation was awarded to Nour USA, Farouki’s company, before it was rescinded due to controversy about the assignment procedure (“Tank Armaments Command Reissues Contract to Equip Iraqi Army,” Inside the Army, 31 May 2004. Arnaud de Borchgrave, “Iraq power grab,” The Washington Times, 7 March 2004). Incidentally — or not — Palestine Note’s domain name is registered to the same firm (see WHOIS Information). Contracts awarded to Farouki’s firm were criticized by those who suspected he won them as a result of his friendship with Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial Bush Administration protege at the center of the rush to invade Iraq; the Bush Administration vigorously denied the claim (Borchgrave). Farouki’s connections to the occupation of Iraq might explain why the Palestine Notestaff member who originally contacted me, soliciting my participation in the publication, had a history of working with the US-sponsored al-Huriyyah satellite channel and various USAIDoccupation projects in the country.

The rescinded contract did not end Farouki’s relationship with USoccupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as he later signed a deal with Oshkosh Truck to “invest in infrastructure and training to support possible future sales of Oshkosh trucks in Afghanistan and Iraq” (“Terrorism Sparks Surge in Special Ops Market,” Defense News 3 April 2006). These dealings came under scrutiny once again when questions emerged about fraud in Iraq (Christian T. Miller, “Evidence of Fraud Found by Iraq Audit,” Los Angeles Times, 30 April 2006). Farouki, like Masri, is connected to the Democratic Party fundraising machine, giving $10,000 to the Clinton Legal Trust in 1999 (“Virginia No 6 in Donations for Clinton’s Legal Defense,” The Daily Press, 26 February 1999). Finally, Farouki is a founding member of the ATFP.