Sounds like you are locked, the Deputy Commandant replied.

This is Commandant Haji Malem Mohsin Khan of Kamenj.

Commandant Haji Malem Mohsin Khan of Kamenj was a great host.

Based in Aru territory, Mr. Mazio entered into a privileged relationship with Commandant Jérôme.

The relationship between Commandant Jérôme and FEC, which includes some 80 local businessmen, is unscrupulous but lucrative.

Mr. Mazio is not charging this debt to Commandant Jérôme but to the Transitional Government in Kinshasa.

During an interview with Mr. Mazio in Kinshasa, the Group inquired into his arrangements with Commandant Jérôme and the cross border gold trade.

The Group has continued, however, to gather testimony that Mr. Mazio was not a victim but a key architect of Commandant Jérôme's economic interests.

I just wanted you to make sure you were aware because it's such an unusual high visibility event, the commander of HMX 1 emailed his superior, the Marine Deputy Commandant for Aviation, the day before the event.

On 1 April 2005, after the departure of Commandant Jérôme from Ituri district, Mr. Mazio issued a list, of which the Group has a copy, of outstanding reimbursements for some 2,002,750 that the 80 FEC members claim they are owed from uncompensated pre financing transactions with Jérôme.

In fact, the only perceptible change is that instead of the legitimate authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Commandant Jérôme has been collecting import and export taxes as part of his quasi governmental authority that the Group has described in previous reports as a pre financing scheme.

In addition to corruption of all trade by the extorting presence of Commandant Jérôme and other Ituri armed group leaders, their overall destabilizing effect has depressed the value of the Congolese franc to the point where the currency will not be accepted as an instrument of payment outside the Democratic Republic of the Congo.