The guy that was mentioned was a Middle Easterner who arranged and financed the congressional trip to the Middle East. I have trouble enough with European names, Middle Eastern names never stick in my head. But he was one of the few Americans named in the Volker Report.
Among the handful of Americans named by Mr. Volcker is Shakir Al-Khafaji (12 million barrels), a well-connected Detroit-area businessman who led a delegation of anti-war Congressional Democrats to Baghdad in September 2002 and who funded an anti-sanctions documentary produced by former weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Mr. Al-Khafaji's financial involvement with Saddam was first documented in these pages by our Robert Pollock in March 2004.