Irish papers on Libertas launch note Ganley's military fetish as he steps down from Rivada board.

Irish papers note Ganley's military fetish. Why does he love the military so? his grand designs are interlinked with his miltary connections. Ganley's Rivada company supplies the US miltary through its Rivada Pacific arm which utilises laws intended to aid native Americans to get no competion contacts in with the US militray. Nana is and Alaskan firm.

they issued the following press relase

New CEO and Board Members Appointed at Rivada Networks

March 10, 2009 -- Rivada Networks is pleased to announce the appointment of a new President & CEO and the appointment of four new members to the company's board of directors.

The new CEO will be Mr. John J. Kelly, a former President of Bell Aerospace, Textron Marine & Land Systems and Chairman and President of Pan American Life PLC, and a founding Director of Rivada Networks. John brings a lifetime of experience in leading technology-based enterprises to the position of CEO, where he will succeed Rivada Networks founder Declan J. Ganley. Mr. Ganley will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of Rivada Networks.

Commenting on Mr. Kelly's appointment, Mr. Ganley said:
"John is an immeasurable asset to Rivada, and with his hand at the wheel, Rivada will be well placed to drive forward and build on its record of excellence in the field of life-saving interoperable communications technology. As the company continues to grow and expand into new markets, John's experience and judgment will ensure that our business plots the right course in its ongoing quest to develop and market technology solutions that save lives and improve our ability to respond to humanitarian disasters".

Rivada is also announcing the appointment to the board of directors of the following individuals:

• General Richard B. Myers, USAF (ret), former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Michael Jackson, Former Deputy Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security.
• George Forseman, Former Under Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security.
• General (ret) the Lord Guthrie, Former UK chief of Defence Staff.

Commenting on these appointments, incoming CEO John J. Kelly said:
"As we move forward into this next exciting phase of Rivada's development, I am delighted that my first act as CEO is to welcome to the board of directors these four individuals, who have demonstrated throughout their careers that their commitment is to public safety first, and that they recognize the immense importance of adequate preparation for emergencies which threaten the lives and safety of our population.

These four individuals bring to our company a wealth of experience, insight, and innovation which will be of immense assistance to us as we continue the development of technologies that will make our world safer, and make the jobs of our emergency services easier in situations where human lives are at risk."

Rivada Networks is a market leader in the provision of interoperable communications systems for emergency situations, and has deployed its technology to assist first-responders in the aftermath of hurricanes, tornadoes, and terrorist threats. Rivada has been chosen by an ever-growing number of State and Federal agencies in order to provide them with the technology they need to maintain communications channels in the event of an emergency situation.

Ganley appoints defence industry figures to communications company

Declan Ganley: preparing to declare election candidacy

DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent

LIBERTAS FOUNDER and chairman Declan Ganley has appointed four high-profile defence industry figures to the board of Rivada Networks, his communications technology company.

The news comes as he prepares to declare formally his candidacy for the June 5th elections to the European Parliament in Ireland North-West, a move expected to come next week.

Mr Ganley is to quit his role as chief executive of Rivada and take over as chairman, which will allow him more time to concentrate on the European elections. John Kelly, a former president of Bell Aerospace and a current Rivada director, is to take over the post of chief executive.

All four newcomers to the board are linked to the international defence industry. They include a former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff during the Iraqi invasion, Gen Richard Myers; former chief of the UK defence staff, Lord Charles Guthrie; and two former senior officials in the US department of homeland security, Michael Jackson and George Forseman.

Rivada Networks is a US-based defence contracting firm specialising in the provision of telecommunications systems to the military, police and emergency services in disaster situations and has secured US military contracts worth up to $240million (€190 million). Lord Guthrie, who has served in the SAS, was chief of the UK general staff between 1997 and 2001. He is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. He was created a life peer after retiring as chief of the defence staff.

Gen Myers is a former four-star general in the United States air force and served as the 15th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

He was the principal military adviser to George Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Mr Jackson is a former deputy secretary of the US department of homeland security. Mr Forseman was the department’s under-secretary for preparedness until 2007.

The appointments are likely to fuel claims by Mr Ganley’s political opponents that his opposition to the Lisbon Treaty reflects his close links with the US military-industrial complex.

The 40-year-old businessman has been recruiting support throughout the European Union in advance of the elections to the parliament.

Mr Ganley would be seeking to take one of the three seats currently held by Seán Ó Neachtáin of Fianna Fáil, Jim Higgins of Fine Gael and Independent MEP Marian Harkin.

Irish Times

The Irish Independent also note the same in their piece on the Libertas UK launch.

Ex-soldier to lead Libertas battle in UK

By Andrew Woodcock and Michael Brennan

Wednesday March 11 2009

LIBERTAS founder Declan Ganley has announced that a former soldier will head his party's European elections campaign in Britain.

He said yesterday that it would provide British voters with their "last and best chance" to send out a message that they did not support the Lisbon Treaty, which has been ratified by 25 EU states but cannot enter into force until it has been approved by Irish voters.

The leader of Libertas UK will be Robin Matthews, a former soldier who left the British army last year after more than 20 years' service in countries such as Bosnia and Afghanistan.

This move comes after Mr Ganley appointed four defence industry heavy hitters to the board of his telecommunications company, Rivada Networks, including General Richard Myers, a former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff during the invasion of Iraq, and Lord Guthrie, the former British chief of defence staff.

Mr Ganley, who is expected to declare his own candidacy for the European elections in the North West constituency next week, is planning to run anti-Lisbon Treaty candidates across Europe.

Libertas UK leader Robin Matthews said that people who wanted a strong and healthy Europe that is democratic and answerable to them should vote for a Libertas candidate.

"If they do not want Europe to succeed. . . then they should vote for another party."

The launch attracted a sceptical response from other established British political parties.

- Andrew Woodcock and Michael Brennan Here

Declan Ganley The Iraq Years?

T. Christain Miller's Blood Money, Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corportae Greed in Iraq
details Ganley's bid for telecom licence in Iraq.
"The storm is gathering apace, it will present itself with spectacular effect in the cities of the west soon enough,"
Declan Ganley on pulling out of Iraq

Given the topical nature of the subject with Declan Ganley's legal team presenting themselves at the High Court in Dublin today to suppress the Irish Village magazine.

In an ex parte affidavit filed at the High Court yesterday, Mr Ganley said the article has made “very serious allegations concerning my business dealings in Iraq”. Mr Ganley said the article makes out that he is “dishonest, a liar, a fraud and that I am responsible for the deaths of thousands of police officers and soldiers through corruption”. The assertions and allegations are without foundation and are a deliberate attempt at character assassination, he added
Irish Times 10 Feb 2009

The below email correspondence from Declan Ganley at a time when he was seeking to do business in Iraq gives a fascinating insight into day to day activities in Declan Ganley's world. His bid to get a mobile licence in Iraq had failed. Accusations of bribery and corruption fly, against Iraqi officials and US/American officials.
Libertas? Nein Danke? is looking for public help! Were any of the claims made in the below emails substantiated? Email: peoplekorps@gmail.com if you know more.

OFFICIAL USE ONLY WARNING: This document is the property of the Department of Defense
Inspector General, International Armament and Technology Trade Directorate and is on loan to your agency. Contents may not be disclosed to any party under investigation nor may this document be distributed outside the receiving agency without the specific authorization of the Director, International Armament and Technology Trade.
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FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Preliminary Findings: Report to the Inspector General into Mobile
Telecommunications Licenses in Iraq APPENDIX N

E-mail Correspondence from Declan Ganley
Subj: FW: Iraq telecom report 22nd. March 04
Date: 3/22/2004 12:18:25 PM Eastern Standard Time

(From Declan Ganley;-e-mail address redacted)

The following is my report following my briefing from our Iraqi source Mr. A, upon his return from Baghdad yesterday, Sunday 21st. March 04. He does not wish to be named in the body of this report as he is concerned that a certain member of the CPA who he believes to be compromised might be in receipt of the information. I am prepared to provide the name verbally to the appropriate persons.
“A” had multiple sources for his information but the primary sources are two serving Ministers of the Iraq Interim Government. I am aware of their identities and again will provide them verbally but A. stressed that they not be written down at the request of the individuals who for the time being do not wish to be identified as the sources of this information. [Resumes of Iraqi’s making accusations are on file at the IATT office for security reasons.]
The Ministers reported the following: Al Jaffari (a member of the Governing Council and I think head of the ‘Dawa’ party), El Abedi (the minister for communications and member of Dawa) and Sudnick are all in receipt of payments in return for favors relating to the Iraq telecommunications process. When giving this information which they volunteered, the conversation was started on the subject of the service being offered in Baghdad by the Orascom network. They were not prompted and gave the information as part of a description of the telecom process and the role of Dawa party
members. When giving the information on the recipients of payments they stated that there was an American in the CPA called “Sadik or Sandy or something like that”, A. asked if it was “Sudnick” and they said yes that was it and how did he know of the name, he told them that he knew Sudnick was a senior guy in communications. The Ministers said that Sudnick was “coordinating” with Al Jaferi and El Abedi and that Al Jafferi had set up an office in Kuwait which is staffed by one of his former London based ‘Dawa party’ figures a Mr. Adnan Ali Al Kadhmi. This gentleman and one other receives payments which are then passed on to Al Jafferi and from him to Sudnick and El Abedi, the payments are believed to be in large denomination dollar cash bills. The other gentleman allegedly receiving and passing on payments is a Mr. Shwan Al Mullah who is a share holder in the central region license. Al Mullah picks up payments from Najib Sawiris

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in Jordan and passes them to Al Jafferi. A. reports that Al Mullah’s
partner’s brother Maqadam Al Khadi is now holding all of Nadhmi Auchi’s Iraq cellular interests in trust while the Iraqi investigation into the licences takes place. The ministers report that they have good information that the amounts paid to Al Jafferi, El Abedi and Sudnick are approximately $10 million U.S. dollars, the parties allegedly making the payments via Al Kadhmi and Al Mullah are Najib Sawiris (of Orascom) and Ala Al Khawaja (reportedly a shareholder in two of the networks and a bag man for Auchi whom he runs a fund for in Egypt). The ministers said thatthere was a particularly significant meeting in Kuwait four weeks agowhere in the presence of Al Kadhmi, At Jafferi and Al Khawaja met directly and where a significant payment was made to be split with El Abedi and Sudnick. A. pointed out that members of the CPA can avoid having their passports stamped going through Kuwait border controls. A. asked the Ministers how they had this information and they told him they had a good network, the information was sound and that they were able to assemble some of the information that led to the capture of Saddam and of TahaYasin Ramadan. A. expressed concern that this information would easily identify the Ministers. According to A. (and he suggested that this could and should be independently verified) there is much Iraqi anger at the way communications have been handled, the level of corruption and the inadequacy of the service. He reported that there is no roaming whatsoever. That each of the three systems will not allow roaming on the other, that there is no service at all in the Southern Licence area. He also reports that there is not even the most basic data service available and that the Baghdad network will not allow the sending or receiving of text messages. The sim cards issued in Iraq will not work in any country out side Iraq or in any other area within Iraq. A. states that the pricing is exorbitant with a one month validity sim card costing $68 USD without a handset, he also said that the prepaid cards appear to be programmed to deduct credit at a faster rate than even advertised, he gave the example of purchasing a $20 prepaid there is a rife market for stolen handsets which are coming in from Europe (this business is operated by a group called ‘Allied’ who are operating from London and owned by Al Mullah’s partner Amer Al Khadi). The Ministers reported that Sudnick and El Abedi are rushing to put as much as they can in place to protect their funders interests before June as they are concerned that both they and Al Jafferi will not be in place after June.
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Follow-up e-mail from Declan Ganley April 20, 2004:

According to our information about this time (September 2002) or earlier either Leech or Davies, more likely Leech, met with Al Khawaja most likely at the Sheraton Hotel in Kuwait City where the payment to be lodged to the Arab Bank in Jordan was agreed.

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We also heard another rumour that a meeting took place between Al Khawaja and a CPA official based in Bahrain. He had travelled to the CPA in Baghdad and was in co-ordination with David Leech. Purportedly a payment of $1.5 million was made at this meeting in Bahrain. We are currently unable to get any more information on this, though we are working on it.

The full report here

I have redacted Daniel Sudnick's claims about Jack Shaw I have received more up to date info on the case and wil be publishing in a new post. The case is ongoing!


See also Iraq: Cellular Project Leads to U.S. Inquiry A Pentagon official acted to award a contract to a group that included his friends. by T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times, April 29th, 2004

Ganley's Bid for Baghdad Action by Colm Kenna Irish Times 5 July 2008
Blood Money Ganley references.

1.	on Page 55:
	"... licenses to operate in Iraq. Qualcomm joined a consortium called Liberty Mobile led by a mysterious Irish entrepreneur named Declan Ganley. A multimillionaire, Ganley alternately drove a Rolls-Royce and a Mercedes, ..."
2.	on Page 57:
	"... S.-Arab Cham- ber of Commerce. In April or early May, DeMarino introduced Shaw and Declan Ganley. DeMarino and Ganley convinced Shaw that Qualcomm's technology was best suited for Iraq's business needs - though Shaw later ..."
3.	on Page 61:
	"... " To effect his plan, Shaw arranged for Reiser to call Ganley and discuss the cellular phone proposal. Over four months, the two negotiated an al- liance, Reiser even visiting Ganley in ..."
4.	on Page 63:
	"... received thirty-five formal proposals to establish cellular service. Sudnick personally reviewed the se- lection of the winners. All the while, Ganley's group continued complain- ing about bias against American technology. ..."
5.	on Page 65:
	"... ordering Sudnick to make sure that NANA got the contract, installed the American technology, and allowed Declan Ganley's Guardian Net to build out the system. "The continuing contracting minuet has obscured what must be part of the NANA/Guardian ..."
6.	on Page 66:
	"... Carroll called Reiser, who told her that Ganley had suggested the change. Carroll then called Ganley, reaching him on his cell phone at Stansted airport in London. ..."
7.	on Page 69:
	"... trolled the entire network in Iraq through a shadowy business alliance. Shaw based his report on anonymous e-mails, information from Ganley and DeMarino, and rumors on the "Arab street. ..."
8.	from Back Matter:
	"... 298 NOTES Chris Frabott, August 2005 Declan Ganley, April 2004 Richard Garfield, June 2005 Michel Gautier, August 2004 Lt. Col. S. Jamie Gayton, August 2005 Thamour Ghadban, August ..."
9.	from Back Matter:
	"... Not('s 303 20. E-mail from Declan Ganley to Jack Shaw, April 28, 2004. Author copy. Ganley reacted angrily to a question over whether Shaw had any financial ..."
10.	from Index:
	"... 326 INDEX G Gailani, Kamil Mubdir, 188 Ganley, Declan, 55, 57, 61, 63, 65, 66, 69 garbage removal, 215, 216, 219, 221 Garfield, Richard, 48, 51 Garner, Jay, ..."