IRAQI MINISTRY SOON TO RELEASE NAMES OF COUNTRIES, INDIVIDUALS IN THE 'OIL FOR FOOD' SCANDAL

MEMRI ^ | 7/6/04 | MEMRI

[VOA]

Claudia Rosett (of WSJ) has been on the case for awhile. She appears maybe once a week on
the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss "the naughty bits" of the UN, espcecially the Oil-For-Fraud case.
Here are links for an article from May and her archive (at WSJ Opinion Journal):
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110005060

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/archive/

[Howlin]

Did you see this?

[Uncle Miltie]

WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE 'OIL FOR FOOD' SCANDAL

I like how the scare quotes are used; we all know it was Oil for Frenchmen and Oil for Palaces. This will be fun.

[tutstar]

I can't wait for this one!
Any bets running?
France
Germany

Whatever country Kofi is from.

Corrine Brown
Jesse Jackson

[dead]

And then lets remember that the LA Times put 21 more reporters on the "hunt" for Arnold Schwarzengger's supposed "groping" scandals than they did on the multi-Billion Dollar oil-for-food scandal that took money away from Iraqi childrens' hospitals in exchange for bribing weapons importers.

Man, that’s a keeper. Thanks.

The LA Times actually had the nerve to print an article, today or yesterday, that made the claim that FoxNews is the most biased major media player since the days of yellow journalism.

Of course, maybe they're not lying. Maybe they don't consider themselves a major media player.

[Chad Fairbanks]

A Patiently awaiting the list Bump!

[TeleStraightShooter]

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Good post kcvl
I was thinking of doing that myself.

Value of $25 million barrels{55 gal} of oil = 1 Billion US Dollars

[wattsup]

I hope F'in Kerry or the Ketchup Queen is on it

[EGPWS]

SAY GOOD BYE UN

YOU ARE GOING DOWN!

Sadly enough it most likely won't happen until Dubya' leaves office in '08.

He won't see the fruits of his efforts until he is retired.

[RandallFlagg]

Is this a live thread??

Somebody please take notes. I'm on graveyard shift....

[Mo1]

I'm not so sure of that .. this scandal .. even though the lberal media is trying to squash the news .. it's starting to pick up speed ..

We shall see though

[cyncooper]

I don't think Marc Rich will show up directly on the list, but see the list up thread at post #55, right under France:

Trafigura (Patrick Maugein), businessman: 25 million

That's the Rich link.

See post #2 on this thread:

***AMEP still exists on registry documents in Monaco, but Mr. Abdelnour confirmed that the office there on Boulevard Princesse Charlotte closed two years ago. Intriguingly, the same building in Monaco houses another oil company, Toro Energy SAM, whose owner and a key business partner both figure prominently on the Al Mada list: oil industry specialist Cabecadas Rui de Sousa and Frenchman Patrick Maugein. (Mr. Abdelnour says he does not know either man). Mr. Maugein, a billionaire with close ties to Jacques Chirac, is a longtime associate of the trader and former fugitive Marc Rich, who fled to Europe in 1983 to avoid answering charges of racketeering, illegal trading and dodging a tax-bill of $48 million. (Mr. Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton in his final hours in the White House). Mr. Maugein was also a close contact of Tariq Aziz, with whom he met regularly. He is the non-executive chairman of Soco International PLC, a publicly listed London-based petroleum exploration/production company, which goes into markets the majors tend to skip--Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea, Libya and Yemen.***

[easonc52]

[eyespysomething]

I'm about to go to bed, can you or someone ping me when this happens?

[Dallas59]

Does anyone see any damage control going on? Denials? Excuses? How reliable is MERI?

[Just Lori]

Expect many more car bombs and bullets aimed at "those who know".

[Just Lori]

I can't wait- I hope the French are at the top of the list.


Maybe hoping for the truth would be better, no matter who is at the top of the list. This is no gotcha game.

[Southack]

"The LA Times actually had the nerve to print an article, today or yesterday, that made the claim that FoxNews is the most biased major media player since the days of yellow journalism."

Total for this search: $1,000

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
SCHEER, ROBERT SANTA MONICA,CA 90403	COLUMNIST [LA Times]	10/30/2000	$1,000	Kucinich, Dennis J

[untenured]

How reliable is MERI?

All they do is translate the Arab press.

[wattsup]

You know that the demorats will link the list to President Bush and VP Cheney by the son of the daughter of the guy who was the second cousin of the lady that said that she was the daughter of the man who once thought that he had a son by his third wife who went on to say that he saw the car and the truck of the butcher that cut his finger while cutting a steak that was served to a lady that had a son in WWII that once saw the ship that was used to refuel President Bush's (41) ship before President Bush (41) joined the navy.