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To: jpw01

2 names were listed from the US. google provided the following: t a c i t u s || Jim McDermott's Tainted Money
... Jim McDermott (D-Seattle), received $5,000 from Shakir al-Khafaji--the legal maximum--for his legal defense fund ... Who is Shakir al-Khafaji? He is embroiled in the UN oil ...
www.tacitus.org/story/2004/4/18/ 122952/684 - 39k - Cached - More pages from this site


35 posted on 10/06/2004 7:49:06 PM PDT by mathluv (Protect my grandchildren's future. Vote for Bush/Cheney '04.)
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McDermott was one of three Congressmen who went on Saddam’s propaganda tour of Iraq in Fall 2002. The trip was funded by Life for Relief and Development (LRD), a “charity” which laundered money to terrorist group Hamas’ Jordanian operation. LRD is funded in part by Shakir Al-Khafaji, a man who did about $70 million in business with Saddam through his Falcon Trading Group company (based in South Africa). LRD’s Iraqi offices were raided by US troops last week, and the Detroit-area “charity” is suspected of funding uprisings, such as the one in Fallujah. Its officials bragged of doing so at a recent private US fundraiser.

Mr. Alkhafaji, one of two Americans named in Iraqi newspapers as a participant in Saddam’s “Oil for Food” scam, gave Congressman McDermott $5,000 in October 2002 for McDermott’s legal defense fund in a lawsuit against him….

http://www.bowlingfortruth.com/fahrenheit911/terrorists.htm


38 posted on 10/06/2004 8:10:12 PM PDT by lwd
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