[livius]

This would certainly explain some of the weirdly ambivalent statements on Iraq that came out of the Vatican. For one thing, there are a bunch of these leftover liberation theology types floating around there (many of whom are of French origin or training), so there's probably a lot of misinformation provided to the Pope and others in the first place. And a bit of bribery is surely enough to help this along.

[mewzilla]

The Russian Orthodox church is listed, too. Sheesh. Some weird interpretation of rendering unto Caesar?

[Shermy]

I found mentions that Al Khafaji donated money to McDermott ... not to he campaign fund, but to his "legal defense" fund.

[Shermy]

Weekly Standard in 2003 reported Al Khafaji gave McDermott $5,000 for his legal defense fund.

[Shermy]

Technically "legal expense trust"