http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066494/posts "Saddam's Web of Bribery 'Went Round the World'"
The Telegraph ^ | Philip Delves Broughton and Jack Fairweather
Posted on 01/27/2004 7:44:19 PM PST by quidnunc
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Saddam Hussein bribed his way around the world, buying the support of presidents, ministers, legislators, political parties and even Christian churches, according to documents published in Iraq.
The list of those who allegedly benefited from Saddam's largesse spans 46 countries.
According to the newspaper al-Mada, one of the new publications that have emerged since the removal of the dictator, Saddam offered each of his friends lucrative contracts to trade in millions of barrels of Iraqi crude under the United Nations oil-for-food programme.
The 270 individuals and organisations alleged to be in his pay included the sons of a serving Arab president, Arab ministers, a prominent Indonesian leader, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, the party led by the Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and even the Russian Orthodox Church.
Abdul Sahib Qotob, an under-secretary in Iraq's oil ministry, said the documents "reveal how Saddam jeopardised the oil wealth of Iraq on personalities who had supported him and turned a blind eye on the mass graves and injustice he inflicted on the sons of the Iraqi people".
He said the ministry was building up a legal case and might seek the help of Interpol to recover the money. Interpol refused to comment."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/28/wirq28.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/28/ixnewstop.html
This sounds like it is in reference to all those black box files. MadIvan was posting about these way back at the beginning of our war. But I have not seen MadIvan in ages.