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  • Senate tries to untangle oil-for-food

    05/17/2005 8:57:25 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 23 replies · 658+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/17/05 | Nick Wadhams - AP
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A U.S. Senate subcommittee sought to tie together the complex threads of Saddam Hussein's manipulations under the U.N. oil-for-food program in a hearing Tuesday, detailing how illicit Iraqi oil was sold to peddle influence and made its way to market - sometimes in the United States. The daylong hearing in Washington was reviewing three major reports from the subcommittee of the U.S. Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which studied in great detail how Saddam made billions of dollars in illegal oil sales despite U.N. sanctions imposed in 1991 after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Committee...