David Crane, the Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone has a secret agenda for being here, and today, as the Court officially opens to the world, that agenda has fortunately been revealed to us.

David Crane studied African Studies at the University of Ohio where he obtained a Masters degree in 1973, "with a future of military intelligence on Africa for the United States Department of Defence (Pentagon)." "This is a job he has held in various capacities until his appointment as Chief Prosecutor for Sierra Leone," says the source.

This fact about the reason for the presence of Mr. Crane in Freetown in his present capacity, gathering information for the US Intelligence, has been made available to us by Rev. Alfred M. Sam Foray, a son of this soil who knows Mr. Crane very well, and is ready to expose him and his secret agenda in Freetown.

He resides in the United States and is the Coordinator for the Hinga-Norman-CDF Fund.

David Crane, he says has always worked for the US Defence and Intelligence establishments, and of more significance to Sierra Leoneans is the fact that he was from 1993-96 the Chairman of the Military Operations and International Law Department of the Judge Advocate General School (JAG), where the US Military trains its lawyers, like David Crane.

The point is, despite the United States' refusal to recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court (ICC), they are willing to "deploy JAG Corps officers to assist UN agencies in collaboration with corrupt and dictatorial governments friendly to the US to prosecute perceived war crimes in other countries ," he says.

The source further reveals that David Crane has extensive links with Executive Outcomes who own the mining concession that has now been taken over by the local Kimberlite company, Koidu Holdings.

He also has ongoing relations and connection with Sandline International and Military Professional Resources, Inc, who have also been in the thick of covert operations in Sierra Leone and several other destabilized African countries.

That his stated purpose here is to lock the indictees up "never to see the light of day" betrays his disregard for justice and his attempt to "defray public attention from his involvement with previous covert and subversive elements in Africa," continues Mr. Sam Foray.

The intention of Mr. Sam Foray's, according to him, is not to castigate Mr. Crane for his role in the charade unfolding today in Sierra Leone called the Special Court for Sierra Leone, but to make public certain aspects of his background that has hitherto been out of public discourse, and to give Sierra Leoneans and the international community the chance to take a closer look at Mr. Crane's latest activities in African Affairs.