MP's partner linked to £80m trade in crude (MORE GALLOWAY)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 24, 2003 | Anton La Guardia

[MadIvan]

Fawaz Zureikat, George Galloway's Jordanian partner who claims not to be involved in oil deals, is closely associated with a company that has traded Iraqi crude valued at millions of pounds, according to United Nations documents seen by The Daily Telegraph.

Mr Zureikat has dismissed as a "forgery" an Iraqi intelligence report identifying him as the front man for Mr Galloway's secret contracts to buy Iraqi crude and sell humanitarian supplies under the UN's oil-for-food programme.

The Jordanian businessman has repeatedly insisted that he does not deal in oil, although he does sell food and other civilian supplies to Iraq.

However the UN register of companies allowed to buy Iraqi oil, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, includes the name of one firm closely associated with Mr Zureikat - Middle East Advanced Semiconductor Inc (Measi).

Diplomats said Measi had bought 8.8 million barrels of Iraqi oil since December 2000. Depending on the price of oil, this would amount to between £80 million and £160 million worth of crude. Mr Galloway, who has yet to reveal his accounts, admitted on Tuesday that Mr Zureikat was a major donor to his political campaigns, alongside the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

The Labour MP said Mr Zureikat, whose name frequently appears on Mr Galloway's campaign literature, gave about £200,000 over four years to the Mariam Appeal, set up to help a young Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia. But he said he did not know whether he dealt in oil.

Mr Zureikat shares premises in Amman and uses the same telephone numbers as Measi, which appears as number 610 in the UN's list of 1,129 oil purchasers as of March 11 this year. The UN's Office of the Iraq Programme said it would not release details of individual traders. But diplomats said the UN lists Measi's director as one Ziad Abdallah Zureikat, who appears to be a brother of Fawaz Zureikat.

Fawaz Zureikat yesterday did not respond to a list of questions left by The Daily Telegraph. But he allegedly told a Jordanian journalist that he was a "partner" in Measi. He insisted, as he did a day earlier, that the company did not deal in oil and threatened to sue if the newspaper mentioned his name.

The names of Fawaz and Ziad Zureikat appear as joint partners in another company - Ziad and Fawaz Zureikat Trading Company - listed by the Jordanian government's register of companies.

Its postal address is the same as that of Measi. The two men share the same middle names, which in Arabic usually denote the names of the father and grandfather, implying that they are brothers.

The ministry of trade lists several other companies headed by Fawaz Zureikat, some with Iraqi and British partners.

[MEG33]

I am relieved by your assurances!

[Miss Marple]

My candidates on who got money from Saddam:

Jim McDermott
David Bonior
Cynthis McKinney
John Conyers
Ramsey Clark
Michael Moore (someone has to be buying all those stupid books)
Peter Jennings
and (drum roll please)
Bill and Hillary Clinton, mainly through the Clinton Library slush fund

[Happygal]

The Telegraph has him. The papers have been verified by Saddam's chief of protocol. There is no way that Galloway will get away with this.

OF COURSE the Telegraph has him. I work in the provincial news media in Ireland, and nothing (I mean NOTHING) contraversial goes into our newspapers without our libel lawyer casting his ascerbic red pen through stuff. So the Telegraph AIN'T stupid. This is true, and this is sticking. And Galloway can fluff about all he likes in denial...but he is screwed!!!!

[MEG33]

It's getting better and better.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

My candidates on who got money from Saddam...and from Uday: Scott Ritter?

[Shermy]

Sources of Revenues for Saddam and Sons - A Primer on the Financial Underpinnings of the Regime in Baghdad (September 2002)

It explains Middle East Advanced Semiconductor is one of the non-oil companies that took over oil trade from the Oil majors - who didn't want to deal with the corruption anymore.

Also a great read and primer!

I also found this Russian site:

http://inconnect.ru/description/643733.html

A Russian company “inConnect” that manages trade exhibitions. At this site it says it helps connect Russian companies with Iraqi partners. In this regard inConnect collaborates its “Iraqi” partners, including Middle East Advanced Semiconductor.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Methinks GW, the misunderestimated one is getting ready to snap a few of his own traps. All the while as he lets his most vocal opponents shoot off their traps as to how he has failed.

[GailA]

Useless Nations Oil for Food scam + galloway Master Lists

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thats a good list!

[Grampa Dave]

This may be the link to all of the Jordanian ammunition found in Iraq.

These brothers had millions of pounds to buy anything with from politicians to war toys to whatever.

[Grampa Dave]

One of these days we will be able to find a money trail from the Islamofacists and Opecker Princes to Ramsey Clark, ANSWER and every vile anti American organization he has run for over two decades.

Then we need to see where he sent money and who, he bought out to be against America.

[Grampa Dave]

You might want to add to your list:

Dan Rather got his exclusive interview with the Soddomite double thanks to Ramsey Clark. Lets put him into the mix.

Also, the new fairies who are in charge of the NY Slimes are prime candidates here.

Also, any rat senator who deballed the CIA and made them ineffective against this financing by Soddomite.

Also, CNN, is up to its keister in involvement with the Soddomite regime and other Islamofacist regimes in the middle East, like Syria and Iran.

[Grampa Dave]

This mess makes a Tom Clancy book look like something my 4 year old grand daughter might write.