The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270

The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers ^

[Shermy]

#253

That's a Steyn excerpt, from this article

http://www.vitrade.com/money_oil/Total/230414_welcome_to_anglosaxon_reality.htm

Here's another excerpt:

"......And Canada? We voted French, finally and decisively, and in defiance of our own history. Indeed, at times M. Chrétien was plus Chirac que Chirac. With exquisite timing, the Prime Minister waited till after the Americans had won before announcing he wanted the Americans to win.

France, Germany, Russia, Belgium and Canada are not on the side of peace or morality or the Iraqi people. The pictures from the streets of Baghdad make that plain. But we are on the side of TotalFinaElf. Twice in recent columns, Diane Francis has mentioned, almost en passant, a curious little fact:

The Western oil company with the closest ties to the late Saddam is France's TotalFinaElf. That's not the curious fact, that's just business as usual in the Fifth Republic. This is the curious fact: As Diane wrote in February and again last week, "Total's biggest shareholder is Montreal's Paul Desmarais, whose youngest son is married to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's daughter."

Let's see if I've got this straight: TotalFinaElf's largest shareholder is a subsidiary of Montreal's Power Corp, whose co-chief executive is Jean Chrétien's son-in-law, Andre Desmarais. Mr. Desmarais' brother, Paul Desmarais Jr., sits on the Total board.

For months, the anti-war crowd has insisted that "it's all about oil," that the only reason the Iraqi people were being "liberated" was so that the second biggest oil reserves in the world could be annexed in perpetuity by Dick Cheney and Halliburton and the rest of Bush's Texas oilpatch gang. Instead, it turns out that, if it is all about oil, then the principal North American beneficiary of the continued enslavement of the Iraqi people is the family of the Canadian Prime Minister -- that's to say, his daughter, France Chrétien, and his grandchildren. ..."

[mewzilla]

More on les Desmarais...

[Shermy]

Desmaret...there is a "Thierry Demarest" associated with Chairman of Total, at least in 2001
http://www.total.com/ho/fr/library/finance/pdf/da/2001/rapports_interactifs/RA_gb/ra_gb_1_4/ra_gb_1_4_1/1.4.1.htm

[mewzilla]

Another link on the Desmarais.

[Eva]

Thanks for the info on the French connection, I was looking for that and wondering if something would pop-up to connect Chretien.

[gaspar]

Regarding one entry for Brazil, the 8th of October Movement is the hard-left Stalinist Revolutionary Movement 8th October (Brazil) whose Secretary General is Claudio Campos. The money it made as intermediary on 4.5 million probably allowed the organization to pay its rent.

[Shermy]

I was right about Father Benjamin. New article:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_bribes_5

"...The list even included a priest who heads the nonprofit Committee for Iraq. Father Benjamin, in Assisi, Italy, ejected allegations he took 4.5 million barrels of oil.

"After having dedicated a number of years to dangerous and tiring work to support the Iraqi people, ... to be denigrated in such a fashion, with such vulgar slanders, shows once more how infinite is the wickedness of those who in truth are now interested in Iraqi oil," Father Benjamin said.

[Shermy]

#266

Saddam didn't give some loony Brazilian communist party money for nothing in return...what could they give back, intel?

[Southern Federalist]

You have identified very big difference between Germany and France and their EU followers on the one hand, and the US, the British, and the Israelis on the other hand.

What you learned from WWII was to hate war. That is not in itself ignoble.

We also know that war is unspeakable, but we learned something different from WWII: We learned that if a dictator says he's going to kill you, and millions of other people, it's wise to assume that he means it.

In the long run, we believe that our lesson will do more than yours to prevent a repetition of the carnage of the WWII battlefields, as well the carnage of the extermination camps.

I will leave you with the words of a great German:

What people write about war, saying what a great plague it is, is all true. But they should also consider how much greater is the plague which is prevented by war. If people were godly and gladly kept the peace, war would indeed be the greatest plague on earth. But how do you take account of the fact that the world is wicked, that people do not want to keep the peace, but rob, steal, kill, rape women and children, and take away honor and property? The small lack of peace called war or the sword must prevent universal lack of peace in all the world, which no one could survive -- Martin Luther.

[gaspar]

The problem with many of these names is the transliteration from Arabic to English. Hopefully, someone will come to our aid.

[Howlin]

Would it be remotely possible for us to have ONE thread where some of you all don't drag other issues into it?

Just one?

[Cindy]

GOOGLE Search Term: "SCOTT RITTER"

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Scott+Ritter%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0

[jerri]

Will the UN be angry and ashamed that its 'give sanctions time to work' slogan was just a pathetic joke? Nope, they won't. That's because some people have no shame.

[Shermy]

"Britain:
1-George Gallaway/Fawaz Rzeiqat/ 19 million
2-Mujahiden-e Khalq/ 36.5 million "

Fawaz must be "Fawaz Zureikat" - "chairman for some time of the Miriam Appeal"

[gaspar]

That makes sense. The Rzeiqat (with myriad spellings) is a Sudanese tribe.

[SandRat]

Sounds like it's time to confiscate the 11.5 million barrels for internal US use, confiscate the $$$ under RICO, and try all parties (including Jimmie) for aiding and abetting criminal activity.

[imintrouble]

I didn't see Germany's name anywhere - or were they getting it from Austria and/or Switzerland?

This was fascinating reading!

[gaspar]

Much information on Fawaz Zureikat surfaced after a London Telegraph reporter collected material at the Iraq Ministry of Interior shortly after troops entered Baghdad. Zureikat is the Jordan-born member of a Baathist family who was running a semi-conducter business in Jordan when he signed up with Galloway and his Mariam Appeal. Zureikat served as Galloway's man in Baghdad.

[Hun in the sun]

I respect your opinion, and much of it is very true.
I`m no dreamer, and most of the other 82 Million
Germans aren`t, too

We`re backing you with troops in:

Kuwait
Afghanistan
Horn of Africa
Somalia
Kenia
Kosovo
...and some other regions

German AWACS controlled your airspace post 0911
German Troops guard your german bases, while your`s
fight in Iraq.

And last, but not least:

Allowing US troops to use their german bases,
hospitals, airports and our harbors for a war on
Iraq was, and is a direct violation of our
constitution. This constitution was written in
1948/49, under leadership of the US and Britain.
It simply allows no help/assistance for/on an unprovoked
war.

The Germans still accept this violation of a
constitution, which has been inspirated by your
constitution and the Magna Charta.

And?
We are called Weasels!

So, WHO taught us again to hate war?


Quoting Quotes leads to no end, but pls let me
verify my position by this other quote:

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther

Sometimes, beeing an OLD EUROPEAN means
to honor OLD Values

Sp, pls accept that this nation will always help
friends. But critizising a friend is friendship, too.
And wars lead to nothing but poverty.

Peace,
Hun

[gaspar]

Another interesting case is found under Lebanon (Al-Hilal, Adnan Al-Janabi). Adnan Al-Janabi is a London-educated Iraqi tribal leader. He worked for years as head of the Economics Department at OPEC. He has returned to Iraq and led an oil seminar in July 2003.

I surely hope that someone in Baghdad takes an interest in this gentleman.