Oil For Food?

NY Post ^ | Oct, 17 2004 | Cynthia Fagen

[Tawnya]

October 17, 2004 -- Saddam Hussein secretly bankrolled a notorious Palestinian terrorist group with $72 million worth of vouchers from the U.N.'s corrupt oil-for-food program, according to a bombshell new report. The former dictator funded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through a Syrian business front, the Scotsman newspaper reported, citing records uncovered by investigators in Iraq.

It could be one of the strongest links yet of Saddam's ties to known terrorists.

Thousands of documents handed over to authorities by a former Iraqi oil minister, include a paper trail showing that the scheme to give money from oil vouchers to the PFLP was carried out in full.

U.S. officials have long accused Saddam of financial dealings with the PFLP, but up until now they were unable to prove it.

Saddam used a Syrian company, Awad Ammora & Partners, as a conduit to give vouchers for two million barrels of oil — about $72 million worth — to the PFLP, the newspaper said.

[Howlin]

Your thread title is not correct.

[LegalEagle61]

This was on Fox News tonight, a special program about the duelfer report and the U.N. It was great and really makes the President look 100% right for going into Iraq. Fox is really into this and is planning to stick with it as far as investigating and reporting on it. The report shows that France, China and Russia were heavily in bed with Saddam Hussein and no wonder they didn't want to stand with us in this war! It went on to say that Hussein was using the Food for Oil Program to help continue his WMD program...Kerry is so wrong, the President was 100% right.

[OXENinFLA]

DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR IRAQ: REPORT OF FACTUAL FINDINGS
IN CONNECTION WITH DISBURSEMENTS (SEPTEMBER 2004)
An Audit By KPMG's Bahrain Office For the U.N.'s International
Advisory And Monitoring Board Examining How Iraq's Oil Proceeds
Were Spent, Concluding: 1) That Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars
In Payments Were Not Properly Accounted For; And 2) That Quite A
Number Of Contracts To Be Performed For Iraqi Government
Ministries Were Not Publicly Tendered (Including A $339M Contract
With The Ministry Of Electricity)

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/cpa101304audit.pdf

[Peach]

Let's watch Old Media not report this.

We should all e-mail this article to our e-mail group.

[OXENinFLA]

Oops, That doc has nothing to do w/ OFF, that report is about the CPA.

You can guarantee if there's something bad in it, the MSM will be reporting it.

To the International Advisory and Monitoring Board of the
Development Fund for Iraq
To Project and Contracting Office
(successor to the Coalition Provisional Authority)

We have performed the procedures enumerated in the attached Appendix. which were agreed
with the International Advisory and Monitoring Board of the Development Fund for Iraq and
the Coalition Provisional Authority, solely to assist you in evaluating the Development Fund
for Iraq's compliance with United Nations Sccwity Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1483
paragraph 14, for the period from 1 January 2004 to 28 June 2004. The Coalition
Provisional Authority was responsible for the Development Fund for Iraq's compliance with
UNSCR 1483.