Posted on 09/19/2004 5:38:16 AM PDT by Snapple
LUGANO, Switzerland — Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program to help fund Al Qaeda?
Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam's overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda (search) that continued after billions of Oil-for-Food dollars began pouring into Saddam's coffers and Usama bin Laden (search) declared his infamous war on the U.S.
Now, buried in some of the United Nation's own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort. (To review a series of documents, audits and other stories related to Oil-for-Food,
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Tonight's "Breaking Point" might be real interesting.
Watch FNC at 9PM EST.
This is the first time I have tried to post. Let me know (nicely) if I missed any posting ettiquette.
As the Oil-for-Food program actually worked, however, the United Nations let Saddam choose his own business partners. The world body also kept secret the details of those contracts and the identities of the contractors, and it let Saddam graft at least $4.4 billion out of the program through manipulated contract prices, by estimates of the U.S. General Accountability Office.
Saddam's standard scam was to underprice oil sales and overpay for relief supplies, thus generating fat profits for his business partners. Many of those contractors would kick back part of the take to Saddam's regime — or divert it to whatever uses Saddam might fancy. By various accounts, those uses ranged from building palaces to buying arms to supplying Saddam's sadistic son Uday with equipment for torturing Iraqi athletes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1218656/posts
POTENTIALLY HUGE: Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
FOX News ^ | Sept. 17, 2004 | Claudia Rosett and George Russell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096037/posts
-"No Blood for Oil"- Kojo & Kofi: Unbelievable U.N. stories.
various FR links | 03-12-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 03/12/2004 2:56:57 AM CST by backhoe
Ya done good! What took ya so long?
Dive in, you're doing well. Just keep in mind that, if possible, it's much better to add your thoughts to an existing thread on the subject rather than creating a whole new vanity thread. The posting police sometimes go overboard.
There are plenty on here who will let you know, nicely or otherwise. I have never posted myself, so the only comment I have is to always include a link. Some get upset if that isn't done.
Great post on a very important topic.If Dan Rather hadn't been a "girly" man gossip columnist, he could have pursued an important story like this.
Dan Rather has stepped into the high-heeled shoes of that other notorious gossip columnist, ...
Louella Parsons
If this scandal is ever unraveled, it will possibly turn out, as many have speculated, that some of that money skimmed from the Oil For Food Program financed the 9/11 hijackers.
You did great..I have not taken the plunge!
This is the first time I have tried to post. Let me know (nicely) if I missed any posting ettiquette.Ya done real good, Snapple.
A couple of suggestions:
- Before you post, do a search to see if the article has already been posted. Follow this link to see what I'm talking about.
- Use the same title as posted with the original article. If you shorten it or change it, the search mentioned above might not work.
Please keep posting, you're doing great.
Was that nice?
"This is the first time I have tried to post."
Just fine.....and remember, everybody here was new at one point in time. :-)
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