[FormerLib]

Didn't the Russian Orthodox Church receive oil money from Saddam Tikriti's terrorist regime???

I'd be interested to see your proof. I hope you think this rumor justifies what Harvard is doing.

[Destro]

http://www.gateway2russia.com/st/art_204952.php

29 January 2004 16:18

Russian church denies recieving bribes from Saddam Hussein

The head of the Moscow Patriarchate's External Relations Department, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill has denied foreign press reports that Saddam Hussein presented oil contracts to the Russian Orthodox Church.

"This is an absurdity, I cannot think of any other word. Nothing of the sort could happen," Metropolitan Kirill told a Thursday press conference in Moscow. Foreign press reports claim that Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the Russian Communist Party also received oil contracts from the former Iraqi leader. Kirill said he was perplexed at the "strange company" the Russian Orthodox Church finds itself in.

The metropolitan said he "will thoroughly analyze the origin of the press reports and see what is behind them."

[http://gazeta.ru/]

[Savage Beast]

"Saddam Supporters Received Lucrative Oil Contracts," by Brian Ross. ABC News, January 29, 2004:

The following are the names of some of those who, according to the document, received Iraqi oil contracts (amounts are in millions of barrels of oil):

Russia:

The Companies of the Russian Communist Party: 137 million
The Companies of the Liberal Democratic Party: 79.8 million
The Russian Committee for Solidarity with Iraq: 6.5 million and 12.5 million (2 separate contracts)
Head of the Russian Presidential Cabinet: 90 million
The Russian Orthodox Church: 5 million

[Savage Beast]

Please see post #11 by Destro. My apologies. Harvard should return the bells.