Posted on 07/07/2004 7:40:23 PM PDT by Mark Felton
THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE IRAQI MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SAID HIS COUNTRY WILL SOON RELEASE TO THE IRAQI PRESS DOCUMENTS REVEALING THE NAMES OF COUNTRIES AND INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE 'OIL FOR FOOD' SCANDAL. (AL-SABAH AL-JADID, IRAQ, 7/6/04)
So the U.N. will get some mud on its face, but will this really change anything?
The people running the show at the U.N. are going to blow this off and will go back to business as usual.
I just hope anyone named from the U.S.A. that are found to be guilty of being in saddams back pocket will be dealt with accordingly.
We will see.
I would only be mildly surprised to read that people associated with the Clintons are on the list.
Senior Iraqi finance ministry official, two staff killed in roadside blast
(AFP)
1 July 2004
BAGHDAD - A senior finance ministry official and two of his staff were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bombing in the Iraqi capital, hospital officials said.
Ihsan Karim, a financial controler at the ministry, was seriously wounded while his driver and one bodyguard were killed on the spot in the blast as they drove down a main road in Baghdad’s western Yarmuk district.
Karim later died from his wounds in hospital. “Ihsan Karim has passed away,” said Dr Ussama Fares at the Shahid Adnan hospital which specialises in neurosurgery.
“Seriously injured in the head and foot, he died of a haemorrhage,” the doctor explained.
The finance ministry official was deliberately targeted in the attack, said a second bodyguard, Taha Abbas Hussein, 30, who escaped with shrapnel wounds to the leg.
“I was sitting with Doctor Ihsan in the back of the car, and another bodyguard and a driver were in the front,” Hussein said.
“The explosion went off ... killing the driver and bodyguard on the spot,” he said, speaking to AFP before Karim died.
The blast occurred at about 8:00 am (0400 GMT), said an AFP photographer in the area at the time.
Why is it that I think the media isn't as excited as we are?
Today from http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070704/content/stack_a.guest.html
One of the billions of dollars' worth of contract techniques was oil barrels, barrels filled with oil, Iraqi oil, futures, if you will. Saddam was pledging millions here, hundreds of thousands there, tens of thousands of barrels there, and the list of nations and individuals getting these bribes has been published. And you'll find officials from France, you'll find officials from Germany, you'll find officials from Russia, you can go up and down the list, there are two names you won't see on the bribe list, and that's Cheney and Bush, nor will you see Halliburton, and we're over there for oil?
And we have under lock and key the chief writer of the bribery checks so to speak.
He could prolong his miserable life a bit perhaps, if he helped in the revelation...wouldn't that be nice!
Sacre Bleu!!
Ach du lieber!!
Agreed...it is going to be ho-hum...the media won't give a rats ass....because it doesn't fit their agenda...of Abu Ghraib.
Dang!
Remember, too, that some who received money from the scam will be secondhand.
For instance, the man who financed Scott Ritter's movie is on the list that has already been published. The same man also contributed to Jim McDermott's defense fund.
Just something to keep in mind if certain suspected names do not show up as primary customers.
Biggest financial scandal in history and our "journalists" are all in the tank......protecting future contacts and sources.....pathetic.
hmmmmm....this'll be interesting.
You are absolutely right about Chretien's son-in-law, but there was very little mention of it by our wonderful liberal media up here. Disgusting. I hope they are all fully exposed.
April 20 — At least three senior United Nations officials are suspected of taking multimillion-dollar bribes from the Saddam Hussein regime, U.S. and European intelligence sources tell ABCNEWS.
One year after his fall, U.S. officials say they have evidence, some in cash, that Saddam diverted to his personal bank accounts approximately $5 billion from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
SNIP
documents have surfaced in Baghdad, in the files of the former Iraqi Oil Ministry, allegedly linking Sevan to a pay-off scheme in which some 270 prominent foreign officials received the right to trade in Iraqi oil at cut-rate prices.
"It's almost like having coupons of bonds or shares. You can sell those coupons to other people who are normal oil traders," said Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British adviser to the Iraq Governing Council.
SNIP
Investigators say the smoking gun is a letter to former Iraqi oil minister Amer Mohammed Rasheed, obtained by ABCNEWS and not yet in the hands of the United Nations.
In the letter, dated Aug. 10, 1998, an Iraqi oil executive mentions a request by a Panama-based company, African Middle East Petroleum Co., to buy Iraqi oil — along with a suggestion that Sevan had a role in the deal. "Mr. Muwafaq Ayoub of the Iraqi mission in New York informed us by telephone that the abovementioned company is the company that Mr. Sevan cited to you during his last trip to Baghdad," the executive wrote in Arabic.
A handwritten note indicated that permission for the oil purchase was granted by "the Vice President of the Republic" on Aug. 15, 1998.
The second page of the letter contains a table titled "Quantity of Oil Allocated and Given to Mr. Benon Sevan." The table lists a total of 7.3 million barrels of oil as the "quantity executed" — an amount that, if true, would have generated an illegal profit of as much as $3.5 million.
SNIP
The following are the names of some of those listed as receiving Iraqi oil contracts (amounts are in millions of barrels of oil):
Russia
The Companies of the Russian Communist Party: 137 million
The Companies of the Liberal Democratic Party: 79.8 million
The Russian Committee for Solidarity with Iraq: 6.5 million and 12.5 million (two separate contracts)
Head of the Russian Presidential Cabinet: 90 million
The Russian Orthodox Church: 5 million
France
Charles Pasqua, former minister of interior: 12 million
Trafigura (Patrick Maugein), businessman: 25 million
Ibex: 47.2 million
Bernard Merimee, former French ambassador to the United Nations: 3 million
Michel Grimard, founder of the French-Iraqi Export Club: 17.1 million
Syria
Firas Mostafa Tlass, son of Syria's defense minister: 6 million
Turkey
Zeynel Abidin Erdem: more than 27 million
Lotfy Doghan: more than 11 million
Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri: 11 million
Spain
Ali Ballout, Lebanese journalist: 8.8 million
Yugoslavia
The Socialist Party: 22 million
Kostunica's Party: 6 million
Canada
Arthur Millholland, president and CEO of Oilexco: 9.5 million
Italy
Father Benjamin, a French Catholic priest who arranged a meeting between the pope and Tariq Aziz: 4.5 million
Roberto Frimigoni: 24.5 million
United States
Samir Vincent: 7 million
Shakir Alkhalaji: 10.5 million
United Kingdom
George Galloway, member of Parliament: 19 million
Mujaheddin Khalq: 36.5 million
South Africa
Tokyo Saxwale: 4 million
Jordan
Shaker bin Zaid: 6.5 million
The Jordanian Ministry of Energy: 5 million
Fawaz Zureikat: 6 million
Toujan Al Faisal, former member of Parliament: 3 million
Lebanon
The son of President Lahoud: 5.5 million
Egypt
Khaled Abdel Nasser: 16.5 million
Emad Al Galda, businessman and Parliament member: 14 million
Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian Liberation Organization: 4 million
Abu Al Abbas: 11.5 million
Qatar
Hamad bin Ali Al Thany: 14 million
Libya
Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem: 1 million
Chad
Foreign minister of Chad: 3 million
Brazil
The October 8th Movement: 4.5 million
Myanmar (Burma)
The minister of the Forests of Myanmar: 5 million
Ukraine
The Social Democratic Party: 8.5 million
The Communist Party: 6 million
The Socialist Party: 2 million
The FTD oil company: 2 million
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/oil_for_food_ripoff_040420-1.html
Excellent point! And Chretien certainly qualifies.
Velly interesting ...
Oh please, let's find a Heinz subsidiary on the list.
I would be surprised if it was .. he doesn't work directly like that
But Mark Rich sure could be in the list
Moronica. Just S of Givadam.
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