Why does the headline say he is sticking it to the liberals?
Maybe UK liberals... certainly he sympathises with American liberals.
The report is based in part on subcommittee interviews with key players in the OFF scam including former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, and the person referred to in the report as "Senior Hussein Regime Official No. 1."
The press release accurately summarizes the gist of the report. As to the magnitude of the transactions, the report states: "In light of the fact that most allocations consisted of millions of barrels of oil, such commissions were quite lucrative, reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars per allocation."
The report diplomatically buries one of its most interesting revelations in footnote 5. According to footnote 5, "Terrorist individuals and entities who received [OFF] allocations include the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Abbas and the Mujahedeen-e Khalq".
The report notes that the arm of the Iraqi goverment that managed the sale of Iraqi crude oil under the OFF program was the State Oil Marketing Organization, commonly called SOMA. An anonymous Husssein regime official is cited in the report as observing that inside SOMA, the OFF program was nicknamed the "Saddam Bribery System."