Managing Director of World Bank tells mass murderer Paul Wolfowitz to quit

April 19 (EIRNS)--At a private meeting of the managers of the bank on Wednesday April 18, Graeme Wheeler, a New Zealander who was appointed as one of Wolfowitz's two deputies when Wolfowitz took over in 2005, called for his resignation, according to a front page story in the Financial Times of London today. The managers, who are employees of the Bank, are separate from the Board, which is composed of the Executive Directors representing the 24 regions of the world. The Board is scheduled to meet today, and is expected to present their recommendation on Wolfowitz's fate at the Bank.

The Financial Times report by journalists Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan says that the managers from Latin America threatened to resign en mass if Wolfowitz did not resign. Asian managers generally agreed with Wheeler, the report says, while at least some of the African and Middle Eastern managers, mostly hired by Wolfowitz, supported him. Wolfowitz responded, according to the Financial Times, that he had no intention to resign.

The World Bank staff, meanwhile, called for an investigation of Wolfowitz's girlfriend Shaha Riza in regard to her one month deployment to Iraq in 2003, at the behest of Wolfowitz's office at the Pentagon, for private contractor SAIC, a breach of Bank regulations.

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