Liberian Embassy DC Official Website

Liberian Embassy DC Official Website seems to be nore in existance anymore with all its phony universities:

http://www.liberianembassy.com/

Are they out of business:

Peter Chin

 

No its still there - see http://www.liberianembassy.com/education.html

Cheers,

George

 

Its so sad I was really expecting the whole damn sickening site to go out of operation.


Peter Chin

 

Hi,

It is still very confusing. Is this really the official website of the Liberian government, or is it a bogus site set up by some people to serve their own interests?

If it is bogus, how come it is still there? Have representatives of the Liberian Government complained to the U.S. authorities about the bogus site? Shouldn't laws of misrepresentation apply in such a case?

My opinion from the little I know.

 

it was bogus, now isn't, it seems

Hi Roya,

Oh, what a tangled mess that is! The sites (there are two: www.liberianembassy.com and www.liberiaembassy.com) used to be fake. The real site was contained in a site for expatriate Liberians at www.liberian-connection.com whose web master, Ciata Victor, had been asked by Aaron Kollie to build a Liberian Embassy web site after the Embassy lost its original domain, www.liberiaemb.org. (Perhaps they failed to reregister it in time.) She did so, with URL www.liberian-connection.com/embassy.htm.

But after Kollie left the embassy, leaving Abdulah K. Dunbar as the senior diplomatic officer, the embassy web site at liberian-connection.com posted a retraction of Kollie's statement dissociating the embassy from Saint Regis and listing the "official" Liberian schools, including Saint Regis, James Monroe, and Robertstown. It seems likely that this source of international embarrassment to the Liberian people vexed the staff of liberian-connection.com: the full text of a pair of articles concerning Saint Regis customers getting into trouble was posted to the news page on the site. Appearing simultaneously, then, were claims of legitimacy for SRU and "Member of Accrediting Group Claims Degree From Institution Known as a Diploma Mill" from the Chonicle of Higher Education as well as "Bogus degrees FROM "LIBERIA" land GA teachers in woodshed." Those two articles can still be found at http://www.tlcafrica.com/tlcnews.htm.

Now, that probably annoyed Mr. Dunbar. In any event, someone gave the go-ahead to the formerly fake embassy web sites to go on the air with a claim to be the "official site." And now the embassy page at www.liberian-connection.com/embassy.htm is gone.

The IP addresses for the now-they're-real embassy sites are a little obscure now, due to some IP redirecting stuff put in place to make them harder to track down, but one of them comes from the same ISP which has been the provider for a large number of Saint Regis (and related) sites. And, in the past, email claiming to be from the liberianembassy.com version of the embassy has come out of a Spokane, Washington internet service provider. This is the same ISP that has sourced email from the National Board of Education discussing the fee for Liberian accreditation as well as email from Saint Regis describing its impending inclusion in the UNESCO "International Handbook of Universities."

G

 

Good exposition.

Mr Dunbar, of course, is an instrument of NBOE. I had some entertaining conversations with him regarding "Adam Smith University", which he initially badmouthed while urging me to enroll at St Regis. (Mind, Adam Smith is less-than-real, also, with phony charters, etc., etc., AND fake Liberian accreditation.) Apparently the right hand didn't know what the left hand was pocketing. Or care.

Dunbar gave me a bunch of cell phone numbers and told me not to call him at the embassy because some people there (Kollie?) "didn't understand the process". When I mentioned to him that Donald Grunewald, proprietor of Adam Smith, insisted that he/it had Liberian accreditation, Dunbar wanted to know whether I was an agent of Grunewald's (!) and said flatly that the only accredited Liberian university was St Regis.

By the way, don't construe any of the above as giving "Adam Smith" a pass. It simply indicates that it was not as, um, invested in embassy personnel here, whomever they may have been invested in back in the home country.

 

Interesting tidbits, Uncle, it seems to indicate that perhaps the NBOE was not giving the Liberian emabassy contacts a "fair share" of the $50,000 for each Liberian accreditation they granted. I guess it's indication that the old saying about "honor among thieves" is just an old saying?