Posted on 06/05/2005 9:40:25 PM PDT by Deetes
June 13 issue - Some of Saddam Hussein's most notorious former lieutenants have been dishing dirt. Senate investigators looking into prewar U.N. Oil-for-Food deals have named Saddam's former personal secretary and security chief, Abid Hamid Mahmoud al-Tikriti, former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan and former foreign minister Tariq Aziz as key witnesses who have provided inside info about Saddam's regime.
Senate staffers traveled to Baghdad earlier this year to interview Iraqi officials, and their reports are among the first official accounts of what captured Iraqi leaders are saying. "In interview after interview, the officials were generally forthcoming and quite proud—even boastful—of their creativity in undermining U.N. sanctions," says Sen. Norm Coleman, who leads one of several congressional probes into Saddam-era oil deals. According to Senate documents, Ramadan is one of the most talkative captives, supplying pithy quotes about how Saddam allegedly manipulated the prewar oil program to buy support from influential foreigners. Senate investigators quote Ramadan saying that Saddam's regime gave foreigners oil allocations—which could be cashed in for lucrative brokerage fees—as "compensation for support." Al-Tikriti told investigators the former Iraqi leader and his aides "were all extremists" on the issue of oil sales to Israel. If they found an Iraqi oil buyer was selling to Israel, they would "not allow it," al-Tikriti said
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He kinda looks like one too....
Screw Newsweek
Quote of the week if there ever was one.
I'm sure this will posted on the front pages of our leading rags between "koran desecrations" and wacko jacko.
Singing like a canary Ping :)
"By contrast, when it came to talking about Saddam's WMDs, Kay says, the captives would say almost nothing — which Kay now acknowledges may be because there were no WMDs to talk about."
This is an interesting statement in lieu of the fact that the UN has now revealed they have satellite photos showing all this equipment for making biological and chemical weapons, along with missles, is missing. I'd be very interested in finding out when they took those photos.
And .. I'd be very interested to know if this "missing" stuff is the same missing stuff they threw at Bush right before the election ..??
Now that is a great Front Page!
Thanks for the ping!
"GULP"
Maybe some brave NewsWEAK (with the stress on weak)reporter should ask the Soviets where they moved Saddam's WMDs.
Ooooh Nooooo! We can't do that .. we might offend Putin.
Actually, right after Condi became Secy - she traveled to Russia and had a "private" meeting with Putin. Since she is fluent in Russian, I'm sure she informed Putin we were going to expose that the satellite videos showed Russian trucks moving in and out of Syria and Iraq just prior to the war. Right after Condi got home it was revealed by Powell I think.
<< "GULP" >>
Quote of the Month Award!
May that jumped-up strutting, Hailie Salasee lookalike Kaffie Annan pr*ck rot and burn in the very Hell to which his corruption and ineptitude have, as often as not by way of being hacked to death by machete or feet first through a plastic shredder, consigned so many.
I was going to say the same thing, word for word.
Nice start to Monday morning...
" ...Aziz once told him that if the U.S. government released him from prison,..."
Hope the Iraqis hang him.
"All the little birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet . . . "
Let's hope it's more like "CHOKE" but a big "GULP" is better than nothing ;)
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