How Much Money Iraq Owes to Others

Dona-A Ilbo ^ | 04/11/03 | Koo Ja-Ryong, Koh Ki-Jung

[TigerLikesRooster]

Iraq's Overall Financial Obligations

Kuwait	$97 billion
Russia	$64 billion
Jordan	$16.295 billion
Saudi Arabia	$14 billion
Britain	$8 billion
Germany	$6 billion
Japan	$5 billion
France	$4 billion
S. Korea	$1.2684 billion
......
Total	$384.4684 billion

Note: The figures here includes foreign debts, Gulf War compensation claims, and pending contracts.
Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies(U.S.) and The Ministry of Construction and Traffic(S. Korea)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Russian, German, and French shares amount to $74 billion. A lot of money to lose.

[Support Free Republic]

God bless our troops. Come home safe, and soon.

[bybybill]

Got to give Saddammnn his credit when due, he sure found the fools

[weegee]

OPM - Other Peoples' Money.

Bono should go to Europe and get the young people to plead with their governments to drop the debt as he did here for other nations.

[Rocketman]

I ran the numbers -- 215 billion is not 384 billion who wrote this piece of crap? How do we know any of these figures are good?

Time to call in the crack FR reseach team and ferret out what the facts are if any in this story.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #5

Don't you see "...." near the end of the table. It does not include minor entries. They were skipped. But the total amounts to about $384 billion. go to CSIS web site to check yourself. It has more details.

[river rat]

It's interesting to note...

Iraq seems to have kept their payments to FRANCE -- a lot more current that to many others.....

Wonder why?

Semper Fi

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #7

It must be that France has been the most dependable long-term partner to Saddam.

[thedugal]

I think the amount owed Kuwait is because of the 1990 invasion. Anyone have any details? I am quite certain that Kuwait didn't loan the money to Iraq.

As for Russia, France and Germany, I suggest they go to the UN to get a resolution for repayment. We'll call it the "second" UN resolution on Iraq :)

[AMNZ]

Not gonna happen. That would not embarras the U.S., only everybody else.

[a_Turk]

I wonder if that was Russian or USSR debt..

[Democratshavenobrains]

Iraq has NO responsibility to pay back the countries that were giving Saddam money for palaces and DVDs. Tell them to pound sand Iraq.

[DannyTN]

Pending contracts should be cancelled.

[justrepublican]

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