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

MEMRI ^ | January 29, 2004 | Al-Mada

[Uncle Miltie]

Quid Pro Quo for Formigoni:

"Movimento internazionale per i Diritti Civili Solidariet…" (Italian Solidarity Movement), started on Tuesday, Sept. 24th, in Milan, where she was officially received by the President of the Lombardy Region, Roberto Formigoni. He assigned her a medal in memory of her fight for civil rights and in memory of Martin Luther King "who is to this day a strong reference point for each one of us" as President Formigoni declared in the official cerimony to present her the medal, covered next day with an official picture by the Italian dailies Corriere della Sera and Libero.

The official release of the meeting, picked up by the papers and by the Italian news agency ANSA, also emphasized the agreement between Formigoni and Amelia Robinson on the urgent need to stop the Iraq war "which would have disastrous consequences for the whole world." In the evening she met students of various Milan universities, a group of young people from Bologna, Catholic priests, nuns and some journalists at a meeting organized by the university group of the Movimento Solidariet… at a parish, Santa Maria Liberatrice, during which she was also interviewed by the main Catholic magazine "Famiglia Cristiana."

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/highlite/amelia_italy0902.html

[MamaLucci]

Yep, lying, corrupt, leftists worldwide had an 8 year orgy.
No controlling legal authority, indeed.

[Uncle Miltie]

Quid Pro Quo: Society for Austria-Arab Relations

University of Vienna: Iraq 2000 (one-day-Symposium)

Host: Fritz Edlinger, Society for Austro-Arab Relations

Topic: UN Security Council Resolutions on the Iraq – Political and Legal Aspects

Presenter: Dr. Naji al-Hadithi (Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq)

http://www.univie.ac.at/orientalistik/Irak.html

[eaglescout]

You make a good point, and I am aware of several companies in the reinsurance business whose names are shortened in that manner. But this company was identified in the article as "the largest commodity trader in Switzerland". Are reinsurance companies typically in the business of trading commodities (like oil)?

[optimistically_conservative]

Roger L. Simon Blog

Guess which Indie Prod's makin' big international headlines? None other than moviedom's own Shakir Alkhalaji who exec produced that sensational documentary "In Shifting Sands: the Truth about Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq," helmed by renowned auteur Scott Ritter. According to ABC News, Alkhalaji--breaking all records for the documentary genre--was awarded 10.5 million dollars worth of oil for his troubles by former Iraqi potentate Saddam Hussein--only one of two US citizens to be so honored. Way to go, Shakir! (May all your barrels be "light sweet crude"!)

UPDATE: ANDY BOROWITZ has more movie news!

[optimistically_conservative]

Saddam's Cash
From the May 5, 2003 issue: And the journalists and politicians he bought with it.
by Stephen F. Hayes
05/05/2003, Volume 008, Issue 33


Editor's note, 1/30/04: On January 25, 2004, a daily newspaper in Iraq called al Mada published a list of individuals and organizations who it says received oil from the now-deposed regime. Among those listed is Shakir al Khafaji, an Iraqi-American from Detroit, who ran "Expatriate Conferences" for the regime in Baghdad. Al Khafaji also contributed $400,000 to the production of Scott Ritter's film "In Shifting Sands." Finally, al Khafaji arranged travel and financing for the "Baghdad Democrats"--Jim McDermott, Mike Thompson and David Bonior--last fall. Following the trip, al Khafaji contributed $5,000 to McDermott's Legal Defense Fund. THE WEEKLY STANDARD has contacted McDermott's office about returning the contribution. McDermott spokesman Mike Decesare said this morning that he had not yet spoken with McDermott, since it's three hours earlier on the West Coast. Asked about the contribution and the subsequent allegations about al Khafaji and oil, Decesare said, "I don't know anything about it." THE WEEKLY STANDARD will post a response from McDermott's office as soon as we get one. In the meantime, it's worth taking a second look at "Saddam's Cash."