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The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270
The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers ^
Posted on 01/28/2004 4:56:40 PM PST by rotstan
The following report from MEMRI's Baghdad office is a translation of an article which appeared in the Iraqi daily Al-Mada,(1) which obtained lists of 270 companies, organizations, and individuals awarded allocations (vouchers) of crude oil by Saddam Hussein's regime. The beneficiaries reside in 50 countries: 16 Arab, 17 European, 9 Asian, and the rest from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Only a portion of the 270 recipients are listed and identified.
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To: Dog
Thanks. :)
To: Dog
Very interesting how the mainstream press is ignoring this this information.
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posted on
01/30/2004 4:49:19 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
( <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure put it in your tagline too!)
To: Dog
and the Clinton/Gore 1996 Primary Committee Well ain't that special
323
posted on
01/30/2004 7:43:21 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
To: rotstan
bump
324
posted on
02/02/2004 10:35:56 AM PST
by
malia
(BUSH/CHENEY '04 NEVER FORGET!)
To: b4its2late
How the heck could a church (The Russian Orthodox Church received 5 million barrels) receive 5 million barrels of oil? Does someone receive it for them then sell it? I don't get it.... yet anyway. I'm sure some FReeper will know.... As I post this, several days after your question, and with hundreds of posts up, I see no responses listed under your replies. I'm sure someone besides me must have spotted this, and maybe they replied, but I don't see it.
The article states in part:
Fifth, the voucher recipients sold the vouchers to oil traders, who then collected the oil against the vouchers from the Kirkuk-Banias (Syria) pipeline terminal, which was operating in contravention of the Security Council sanctions. The pipeline carried 200,000 barrels per day of Iraqi oil, which benefited Syria greatly.
325
posted on
02/03/2004 10:29:44 PM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Temporary tagline. Applied to State of New Jersey for permanent tagline (12/24/03).)
To: BykrBayb
Somebody replied about a middleman type scheme, which is what I thought since it would be kind of tough to keep that much in the basement of even a church.... :-)
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:25:18 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough!)
To: b4its2late
bump
327
posted on
02/16/2004 10:03:23 AM PST
by
malia
(BUSH & CHENEY 2004)
To: Dog
My, my, my......France, Russia and Qatar got the biggest shares of oil. Aren't we a cozy bunch?
328
posted on
02/17/2004 8:41:33 AM PST
by
GigaDittos
(Bumper sticker: "Vote Democrat, it's easier than getting a job.")
To: rotstan
One of the common arguments by recipients of vouchers was that the vouchers paid for goods provided in the framework of the U.N.-administered Oil for Food program. However, under the Memorandum of Understanding governing the program, oil allocations were intended for "end users," meaning those with refineries. Most of the voucher recipients would be considered "non-end users." Moreover, if vouchers were used to pay for goods, it would suggest that these were not authorized by the program and should be considered illicit since all contracts approved by the U.N. were reimbursed from the trust account where the oil revenues were kept, at a French bank, at Iraq's insistence. According to the United Nations: "The oil buyer had to pay the price approved by the Security Council Sanctions Committee into a U.N. escrow account, and the U.N. had to verify that the goods purchased by Iraq were indeed those allowed under the program. But the U.N. had no way of knowing what other transactions might be going on directly between the Iraqi government and the buyers and sellers."(8\)I guess that man that Jessie Jackson gave some oil revenues to here in the states, couldn't be considered an "end user" i.e. no trucks and no refinery...another oil fraud from another slickster..................
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posted on
02/19/2004 3:55:58 PM PST
by
yoe
(WMD come in small containers/vials...small minds don't want you to know that.)
To: Howlin
Silly girl......this list is infinitely more interesting than the FBI files.
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posted on
03/20/2004 5:48:49 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: b4its2late
You get the right to sell the oil.
Remember Jesse Jackson getting oil rights from the reserves X42 released shortly before the election.
331
posted on
03/20/2004 5:49:50 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: yoe
332
posted on
09/08/2004 7:12:23 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: piasa
333
posted on
11/26/2006 6:38:40 PM PST
by
AmeriBrit
(Soros and Clinton's for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington = SCREW.)
To: AmeriBrit
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