Before the War, the Sale of Iraqi Oil Enriched a Multitude of Intermediaries (Le Monde)

Le Monde ^ | January 29, 2004

[Shermy]

Babelfish translation, touched up by myself.

Previous story:

Saddam Hussein récompensait ses "amis" en barils de pétrole

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/recherche_articleweb/1,13-0,36-350628,0.html

Mentions Pasqua, Galloway, Zhironofsky...

[VaBthang4]

This is gonna be good.

[Shermy]

Ping again, this time "translated"

[mallardx]

I think this is the story of the year. We need to not only follow the money, and expose the French and russian and other criminals involved, and their complicity with Saddam, but also GET THIS ON THE NEWS STATIONS! This will be swept under the rug by NYT, ABC, the usual suspects...

[cripplecreek]

i cant wait for this to start hitting the airwaves.

[gathersnomoss]

Always follow the Franc. From there you will find what lies (sp) ahead.

[omega4412]

"The United States and United Kingdom, savagely opposed to the regime, only had some crumbs of these tens of billions of euros contracts. It is another circle, of a score of large countries, of which Russia, China, France, which shared the favors of the Iraqi regime to deliver grain, drugs, machine tools..."

And these are the countries complaining that the US is excluding their companies from bidding on Iraq reconstruction...

[caisson71]

I wouldn't count on seeing this story on the "alphabet" TV news programs, not without a lot of qualifying and apologizing (spin) anyway.

[Howlin]

I've got MY list all ready, how about you?

Scott Ritter
Jacqie Boy
Sean Penn
McDermott
What's his face that went with McDermott
Anybody remotedly associated with Bill Clinton

More?

[Howlin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/861683/posts

[lilylangtree]

"The United States and United Kingdom, savagely opposed to the regime, only had some crumbs of these tens of billions of euros contracts."

I can see Bush's and Blair's enemies take this one sentence to explain the invasion of Iraq and dethroning Hussein. "It's all about oil" cry would ignite again.

[Howlin]

FR posted articles on UN Food for Oil program MASTER list

[Dog]

Patrick Maugein

This is a friend of Chirac.....

Chirac didn't get this far ....he knows how to use a cut out...oil was given to Maugein who in turn sold it and turned over the profits to old Jackie .....there has to be a Swiss bank account with his name on it.

[Dog]

I said yesterday this story was going to grow....and it looks like I was right.

[Shermy]

Patrick Maugein
This is a friend of Chirac.....


Yes, you're right. A "close" friend. Can't find any English sources for now...

[Dog]

Let me look I'll ping you...I saw something earlier today.

[Dog]

Found it..

Freeper Real fifi had posted the translated version.....earlier today in a thread.

Patrick Maugein

He recieved 25 million barrels..

[XHogPilot]

Try this hit from www.namebase.org for Charles Pasqua:

Source

[XHogPilot]

In case previous link to former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua didn't work here it is again.

http://www.namebase.org/main1/Charles-Pasqua.html