Case goes to trial Monday in Paris.

Guns, dirty money and French elite on trial, By ANGELA CHARLTON. AP, Oct. 03, 2008.

Background Resources

Two reports from Global Witness:
All the Presidents Men: The devastating story of oil and banking in Angola’s privatised war. 01/03/2002
A Crude Awakening: The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angola’s Civil War and the Plunder of State Assets. 01/12/1999

Making a Killing: The Influence Peddlers, By Yossi Melman and Julio Godoy. The Center for Public Integrity, November 13, 2002.

On Pierre Falcone:
The Arms Dealer Next Door, by Ken Silverstein. In These Times, December 22, 2001.