Re: [Islah-Net] Fwd: [anak_KEDAH] Betuika Anwar ni kawan Baik Wolfwittz dan Shaha Riza la ni kerja dgn dia..??
The Star Online Monday May 21, 2007
Anwar denies involvement in scandal engulfing
Wolfowitz
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has denied
having a hand in getting the high pay rise for Shaha
Ali Riza, girlfriend of World Bank president Paul
Wolfowitz.
The former deputy prime minister, who is the chairman
of Foundation for the Future, said he did not appoint
Shaha Riza to the foundation.
She was first assigned by the World Bank, through the
US State Department, to the foundation in late 2005,
before I became chairman.
The executive committee decided in mid-December 2006
to regularise the appointment so that Shaha (Riza)
advised directly from the World Bank and not the State
Department, he said in a statement.
News reports had said that Anwar had written to a
letter to Robin Cleveland, Wolfowitzs counsellor at
the World Bank, last October, asking for Riza to be
transferred from the State Department to the
foundation.
The move raised her pay by 36% from US$133,000
(RM452,250) to US$193,590(RM658,255).
In his press statement, Anwar said the setting up of
the Foundation for the Future was announced in Bahrain
in November 2005.
The aim was for an independent body, comprising
governments and civil societies to support
non-government organisations (NGOs) in developing
democracy and freedom in the Middle East and North
Africa.
He said US$56mil (RM190.5mil) was promised to the
foundation but to date, it had only received funds
from Turkey, the UK and Jordan, and none from the US.
Anwar said he had been invited to join the board of
the foundation in mid-2006 along with representatives
from Morocco, Kuwait, Iraq, Spain, Syria, Turkey,
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Switzerland and Qatar.
At the first board meeting, he said he was unanimously
chosen as the chairman.
Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin had said on
Sunday that Anwar must explain his role in the
controversy involving Wolfowitz and Riza, clarify his
relationship with Wolfowitz, and explain his motives
for heading a foundation bankrolled by the US.
--- Dr Omar Yaakob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Asm,
>
> A cause for concern.
>
>
> --- Wira Putih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > From: Wira Putih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: [anak_KEDAH] Betuika Anwar ni kawan Baik
> > Wolfwittz dan Shaha Riza la ni kerja dgn dia..??
> >
> > Lepas baca cerita kat bawah, pi tengok ni pulak
> > untuk kenai lebih dekat Foundation of the Future
> > yang diPengerusikan oleh Anwar. Rasanya Mahathir
> tak
> > dak kena mengena dengan website/blog ni.
> >
> >
>
http://www.foundationforfuture.org/bios/board_of_directors.html
> >
> http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/apr/83050.htm
> >
>
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/04/wolfowitz_cia_l.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Wolfowitz and Riza: How Sweet It Is!
>
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}http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=192571
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>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070504/cm_thenation/3192571
> >
> > At the start of the scandal triggered by the
> > revelation that World Bank President Paul
> Wolfowitz
> > had helped arrange generous pay boosts for his
> > girlfriend Shaha Riza, Wolfowitz declared, "I made
> a
> > mistake, for which I am sorry."
> > Two and a half weeks later, Wolfowitz had
> > readjusted his rhetoric. "The ethics charges are
> > unwarranted" and "bogus," he said.
> > On Friday, the Bank's board of directors was
> > working to complete its report on the Wolfowitz
> > affair and pondering whether to reprimand or even
> > remove Wolfowitz. But regardless of the outcome of
> > the official deliberations--which have been
> affected
> > by behind the scenes maneuvering and the
> individual
> > agendas of member nations--the Wolfowitz and Riza
> > tale is one of Washington insiderism, a story in
> > which a powerful player was able to guarantee that
> > his companion would make hundreds of thousands of
> > dollars a year and be entitled to a lucrative
> > pension while working at a fledgling foundation
> with
> > a friend of his. This is not how most public
> > servants in Washington live.
> > After Wolfowitz, a former deputy defense
> secretary
> > who was a prime architect of the Iraq war, assumed
> > the Bank's presidency, he was faced with what he
> has
> > called "a potential conflict of interest." He
> would
> > be the boss (albeit not the direct boss) of his
> > girlfriend, who was a communications officer in
> the
> > Middle East section. He subseq
[Islah-Net] Fwd: [anak_KEDAH] Betuika Anwar ni kawan Baik Wolfwittz dan Shaha Riza la ni kerja dgn dia..??
Asm,
A cause for concern.
--- Wira Putih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Wira Putih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [anak_KEDAH] Betuika Anwar ni kawan Baik
> Wolfwittz dan Shaha Riza la ni kerja dgn dia..??
>
> Lepas baca cerita kat bawah, pi tengok ni pulak
> untuk kenai lebih dekat Foundation of the Future
> yang diPengerusikan oleh Anwar. Rasanya Mahathir tak
> dak kena mengena dengan website/blog ni.
>
>
http://www.foundationforfuture.org/bios/board_of_directors.html
> http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/apr/83050.htm
>
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/04/wolfowitz_cia_l.html
>
>
>
> Wolfowitz and Riza: How Sweet It Is!
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}http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=192571
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070504/cm_thenation/3192571
>
> At the start of the scandal triggered by the
> revelation that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
> had helped arrange generous pay boosts for his
> girlfriend Shaha Riza, Wolfowitz declared, "I made a
> mistake, for which I am sorry."
> Two and a half weeks later, Wolfowitz had
> readjusted his rhetoric. "The ethics charges are
> unwarranted" and "bogus," he said.
> On Friday, the Bank's board of directors was
> working to complete its report on the Wolfowitz
> affair and pondering whether to reprimand or even
> remove Wolfowitz. But regardless of the outcome of
> the official deliberations--which have been affected
> by behind the scenes maneuvering and the individual
> agendas of member nations--the Wolfowitz and Riza
> tale is one of Washington insiderism, a story in
> which a powerful player was able to guarantee that
> his companion would make hundreds of thousands of
> dollars a year and be entitled to a lucrative
> pension while working at a fledgling foundation with
> a friend of his. This is not how most public
> servants in Washington live.
> After Wolfowitz, a former deputy defense secretary
> who was a prime architect of the Iraq war, assumed
> the Bank's presidency, he was faced with what he has
> called "a potential conflict of interest." He would
> be the boss (albeit not the direct boss) of his
> girlfriend, who was a communications officer in the
> Middle East section. He subsequently worked out a
> deal under which Riza would remain a Bank employee
> but be reassigned out of the Bank. What has caused
> the fuss is that this arrangement included a 36
> percent pay hike--which raised her annual salary
> from $132,660 to $180,000--and guaranteed yearly pay
> increases of 8 percent. (She is now pulling in
> $193,000 a year.)
> Wolfowitz has justified the initial compensation
> boost by arguing that when he arrived at the Bank
> Riza was short-listed for a promotion to
> communications adviser to the vice president of the
> Middle East region. Such a promotion would entail a
> jump in pay grade. The office of the vice president
> of the region had placed Riza's name on a short list
> of nine candidates, but, according to an official
> familiar with the deliberations of the human
> resources committee overseeing this job opening,
> Riza's position on the short list was not initially
> approved by the committee--a necessary step for her
> to receive the job. That did not end the matter. "It
> became clear the board was under strong pressure
> from upstairs to keep her on the short list," this
> official says.
> Whether or not she made it to the final short
> list--Bank officials have different
> recollections--she was no shoe-in for the promotion.
> Two years earlier, Jean-Louis Sarbib, then the vice
> president for the Middle East region, had proposed
> Riza for a similar position, and the human resources
> board had rejected her. The board noted, according
> to a report made available to The Nation, that
> Sarbib should have sought other applicants for the
> position, that Riza "needs to establish herself as a
> communications professional," and that she should
> not receive a "promotion through the backdoor." Riza
> did not meet the minimum job qualifications: an
> advanced degree in communications and 15 years of
> experience. She was a gender specialist at the
> Bank--a well-known Arab feminist-- who had done
> communications work for only a few years.
> In statements to the Bank's board, Wolfowitz has
> pointed to Riza's candidacy for the communications
> adviser post as a reason for awarding her a $47,340
> compensation increase. "This raise is about double
> what you'd be allowed to get if you got that
> promotio
