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Maverick Lawmaker Accepts Damages Over Newspaper Claims He Accepted Iraqi Money Mar 19, 2004 By Jane Wardell/ Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) - Outspoken British lawmaker George Galloway accepted undisclosed damages and a public apology from the Christian Science Monitor newspaper Friday over an article it published alleging that he took money from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. Julia Schopflin, a lawyer for the newspaper's publisher, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, told the High Court that the Boston-based publication accepted that allegations made in the article were false. The report was based on documents that later proved to be forgeries,...

Kenneth Timmerman is on the Al Rantel show right now . . . . . www.kabc.com to hear internet feed. The French believe in blood for oil. Over a seven-year period, they had a 100 billion dollar oil deal with Hussein!

The Iraqi daily newspaper "Al-Mada" published a sensational expose on 25 January of companies, organizations, and individuals whom it alleges were bribed with hundreds of millions of barrels of oil by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in return for their political support and as payment for items prohibited under the interwar (1991-2003) embargo on Iraq. Headlined "Presidents, Journalists, and Political Parties Received Millions of Oil Barrels From Saddam," the article listed the names of 270 alleged recipients. The Iraqi Governing Council responded to the publication by launching an investigation into the charges and, according to the "Financial Times" of 3...

<p>The latest revelations that the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used oil sales under the U.N. oil-for-food program to buy friends and influence policy around the world should turn on an alarm in Washington, New York, Paris and other capitals. Saddam's influence buying is only a part of a broader phenomenon. Other oil-producing countries are engaged in similar activities on an even larger scale.</p>

Introduction On January 25, 2004, the Iraqi independent daily Al-Mada published a list of approximately 270 individuals and entities who were beneficiaries of Saddam Hussein's oil vouchers. [1] The report evoked reactions from many of those included in the list as well as from the Arab media, among them apologists for Saddam's regime. The fact that so many have opted for silence may give credence to the list's authenticity. A former undersecretary in the Iraqi Ministry of Petroleum, Abd Al-Saheb Salman Qutb, said that the ministry possesses documents proving the authenticity of the list published by Al-Mada. The list was...

Special investigation   Iraq oil cash funded MPs' campaigns Businessmen handed on money illicitly siphoned from UN deals to pressure groups run by George Galloway and Tam Dalyell David Leigh and David Pallister Tuesday February 17, 2004The Guardian Money illicitly siphoned from the UN oil-for-food programme by Saddam Hussein was used to finance anti-sanctions campaigns run by British politicians, according to documents that have surfaced in Baghdad. Undercover cash from oil deals went to three businessmen who in turn supported pressure groups involving the ex-Labour MP George Galloway, Labour MP Tam Dalyell, and the former Irish premier Albert Reynolds, it...

Iraq oil cash funded MPs' campaigns Businessmen handed on money illicitly siphoned from UN deals to pressure groups run by George Galloway and Tam Dalyell David Leigh and David Pallister Tuesday February 17, 2004 The Guardian Money illicitly siphoned from the UN oil-for-food programme by Saddam Hussein was used to finance anti-sanctions campaigns run by British politicians, according to documents that have surfaced in Baghdad. Undercover cash from oil deals went to three businessmen who in turn supported pressure groups involving the ex-Labour MP George Galloway, Labour MP Tam Dalyell, and the former Irish premier Albert Reynolds, it is alleged...

Special investigation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 cents a barrel: how Iraqi oil fuelled UK campaigns Secret commissions paid to pro-Saddam middlemen by western oil firms found their way into George Galloway's anti-sanctions drives David Leigh, David Pallister, Brian Whitaker, Owen Bowcott, Rory McCarthy in Baghdad, Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow, Jon Henley in Paris Tuesday February 17, 2004 The Guardian In November 1998, Riad al-Tahir, a businessman of Iraqi origin who lives in Esher, Surrey, arranged a visit to Baghdad by the British Labour MP Tam Dalyell and an Irish delegation led by the former prime minister Albert Reynolds. It was not...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068854/posts FRENCH FOR BRIBERYNew York Post ^ | 1/31/04 I wonder if the liberal news network will be reporting this gem of an article. Looks like the jig is up for our some of our fellow liberal 'Americans'.     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068867/posts TREASURY PROBES SADDAM'S OIL PALSNew York Post ^ | 1/31/04 | NILES LATHEM   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068596/posts IRAQ OIL: Mother OF All Scandals: List of all Business DealsHealing Iraq ^ | 1/29/2004 07:47:23 PM | zeyad     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068518/posts Did ABC tamper with Iraqi bribe list? Protect Kerry?abcnews.com ^   Saddam bribed Chirac.. ( 1 2 )     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067968/posts Document:...

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.

Ever since September 11, liberals in the United States and abroad have done their best to undermine the War on Terror by maligning the intentions of the Bush administration. In a pattern reminiscent of how liberals sought to undermine Ronald Reagan's successful effort in the 1980s against communism, the far-left today is waging an ongoing smear campaign against President George W. Bush's bold actions on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere around the globe. From Howard Dean's suggestion President Bush had advance knowledge of September 11, to Sen. Teddy Kennedy's charge that the war was "cooked up" in Texas,...

This is just the beginning: There are thousands of documents in Baghdad that need to be catalogued, translated,... Oil is not just fuel for your car. It is a mighty political weapon. The latest revelations that the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used oil sales under the U.N. oil-for-food program to buy friends and influence policy around the world should turn on an alarm in Washington, New York, Paris and other capitals. Just as Saddam's oily revenues corrupted presidential chancelleries and newsrooms, funds from other major Middle Eastern oil suppliers with ambitious religious and political agendas may wreak even more...

PARLIAMENT has decided to set up a temporary committee to investigate allegations that the Bulgarian Socialist Party received 12 million barrels of petrol from Saddam Hussein's regime. The decision on the committee was taken with 125 votes for, 24 against, and 32 abstentions. The membership of the committee will be decided upon on Friday. The proposal for it was made by MPs from the right-wing Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and was supported by the BSP. The majority National Movement Simeon II (NSMII), however, initially did not support the idea. Last week the Speaker of Parliament, Ognyan Gerdjikov, opposed the...