Posted on 12/16/2004 9:50:36 PM PST by Former Military Chick
A federal grand-jury investigation of pardoned financier Marc Rich's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal has focused on whether he helped Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein reward the families of Palestinian bombers who carried out suicide attacks in Israel, sources said yesterday.
Law-enforcement authorities and congressional investigators said the grand jury wants to know whether cash funneled to Saddam by oil traders — including Mr. Rich — to help arrange multimillion-dollar Iraqi oil deals for political leaders and well-heeled investors was used by the now-deposed dictator to pay the bombers' families.
"Can we legitimately speculate that some of the blood money Saddam paid to kill people in Israel may have originated or at least been touched by Marc Rich through the United Nations' dreadful oil-for-food program?" said a source close to the probe. "We know Saddam Hussein was getting a rake off from the U.N. program and Rich was in the middle of that."
The grand-jury probe centers on questions of whether Mr. Rich, pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office in a pending $48 million income-tax-evasion case, brokered millions of dollars in deals between Saddam and other traders as part of the oil-for-food scandal, the sources said.
It has focused on concerns that Mr. Rich and others made illegal payments to Iraq to obtain lucrative oil contracts in deals that were intended to circumvent U.N. sanctions against the Iraqi government and whether any of that money was used to pay the families, they said.
Last month, the House International Relations Committee cited documents confirming that Saddam diverted money from the oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out the Israeli attacks.
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'Clinton' was indeed missing from the title.
Grand jury probes Rich-Saddam link? Didn't we forget someone??
Shouldn't this read:
Grand jury probes CLINTON-Rich-Saddam link?
Jeeze, Bill Clinton had more reasons than we know for wanting to be the New and Improved Secretary General of the UN, maybe Cover-up General of the UN. Hill is in the White House and Bill in the UN; WOW What a Team!!
That would make White Water look like Yard Sale!
Marc Rich again.
NW_AZ, do you remember off hand that URL for the thread with that older article you found? About Clinton's assassination attempt?
I will start digging through my comments section. But that should be added here.
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Never mind. Found the old article.
Adding on to thread, this reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1300696/posts
Al Qaida may have tried to kill Clinton (2002)
>>>>Jeeze, Bill Clinton had more reasons than we know for wanting to be the New and Improved Secretary General of the UN, maybe Cover-up General of the UN. Hill is in the White House and Bill in the UN; WOW What a Team!!
This tidbit has always been my favorite. Of course this has not been covered by the MSM. Where did this MONEY GO?
http://goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseForce/NIXTOBLIX.doc
(snip)
NIX TO BLIX: ...The second has been the failure to implement Congress's Iraq Liberation Act - which was supposed to fund the overthrow of the dictator by native opposition groups. President Bill Clinton signed the 1998 act which was supposed to invest $97 million in this project. Apparently only $20,000 has been disbursed to the opposition groups - enough to buy some basic office supplies. The London office of the Iraqi National Congress, the main democratic opposition group, shut down at the end of last year...
(snip)
If this Federal Grand Jury investigation leads to an indictment, does Clinton's pardon still cover Rich?
bump!
I guess that the new question of the century.
Thanks for the ping!
Paging all Jewish 'Rat voters. Look at your party's leader, the Sink Emperor. The greatest president ever, one who pardoned more terrorists than his admin ever killed or captured....
Legacy ping...
A pardon, AFAIK, only covers events up to that time. New actions since the pardon could still well lead to new charges.
That is an interesting thought. I hope someone reading this can offer insight on pardons.
I hope they probe so deep into Marc Rich, that it exit's his ears.
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I wonder if they'll have the nads to subpoena the Toons...
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