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| Wed, 04-21-2004 - 8:11am |
Monumental Rip-Off
Allegations of Widespread Corruption Involve Saddam Hussein, U.N. Senior Officials
Allegations of Widespread Corruption Involve Saddam Hussein, U.N. Senior Officials
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/oil_for_food_ripoff_040420-1.html
Read all four pages, there are links to the other three at the bottom of the story.

Other recipients include: former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua (12 million barrels); Patrick Maugein, CEO of the oil company Soco International and financial backer of French President Jacques Chirac (25 million); former French Ambassador to the United Nations Jean-Bernard Merimee (11 million); Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri (10 million); and Syrian businessman Farras Mustafa Tlass, the son of longtime Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass (6 million). Leith Shbeilat, chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Jordanian Parliament, received 15.5 million.
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA16404
Wrhen posted about this revelation when it first came to light...........
Saddam's Bribery List is Out!
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elinthenews&msg=6033.1
Will be interesting to know who did or did not exercise their options.
I have seen reports about this before on American press, though I am surprised it hasn't been made a bigger issue earlier on.
James
janderson_ny@yahoo.com
CL Ask A Guy
I think the news resurfaced because of the UN link.
>"I should have been reading this board back in January."<
What can I say? ;) Better late than never. I take Time mag. & often come across stories/topics we've discussed here long before they're published.
Renee