UDAY'S FAVORITE YANK

The New York Post ^ | February 1, 2005 | NILES LATHEM

[ConservativeStatement]

February 1, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — An Iraqi-American businessman under investigation in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal was placed on an honor roll of former regime thugs by Saddam Hussein's demonic son Uday just months before the war, The Post has learned. Detroit-area real-estate developer Shakir al-Khafaji, who received millions of dollars worth of vouchers to buy discount Iraqi crude in the U.N. oil-for-food program, appeared on an "Honor List" of Iraqis considered most valuable to Saddam that was published by the Uday Hussein's newspaper, Babil, in November 2002.

[DainBramage]

Remember Scott Ritter, the weapons inspector in Iraq, who was insistent that Iraq had weapons then suddenly changed his tune? "By his own admission, Ritter accepted $400,000 in funding two years ago from an Iraqi-American businessman named Shakir al-Khafaji."

Who is Shakir al-Khafaji? I don't know, but he is on the list of people directly receiving money from Saddam's regime:

"United States: Samir Vincent received 10.5 million barrels. In 2000, Vincent, an Iraqi-born American citizen who has lived in the U.S. since 1958, organized a delegation of Iraqi religious leaders to visit the U.S. and meet with former president Jimmy Carter. Shaker Al-Khafaji, the pro-Saddam chairman of the 17th conference of Iraqi expatriates, received 1 million barrels."

http://www.emoryvanguard.com/2004_01_25_archive.html

[thoughtomator]

And now the reasons for the traitor and child rapist Scott Ritter's sudden conversion to the Hussein point of view are fully exposed. Likewise the reasons for traitor McDermott's unending sympathy for Saddam.

[sdpatriot]

interesting Scott Ritter - Uday link..

[BenLurkin]

$400,000 is a lot of money.

[MEG33]

Follow the money BUMP

[Irish_Thatcherite]

But there was a bizarre twist. Because the front-page list also contained names of Iraqi intelligence agents abroad and a mysterious agent based in Pakistan who was identified as a liaison to terror master Osama bin Laden, Saddam ordered hundreds of security agents to shut down his son's newspaper and confiscate copies, according to reports at the time.

Gee, I wonder why they didn't find links to Al Qaida? /sarcasm

[Dog]

Scott Ritter ping.

[nothingnew]

"Is he dead yet, Jim?"

FMCDH(BITS)

[DainBramage]

I must have missed the movie he and his Russian agent wife were going to make.

[Shermy]

Surely we had a copy of "Babil" before. Surely our billions and billions of dollars spent on spy satellites could have photographed the print of the newspaper off an Iraqi newsstand.

< /sarcasm>

[anniegetyourgun]

Seems like this one brings things full circle back on the Ritter critter. I hope the CIA is keeping tabs on this traitor.

[TexKat]

Thanks for the heads up sdpatriot.

[MizSterious]

Good find. It's all coming out--slowly, but surely.

[maine-iac7]

It's all coming out--slowly, but surely.

but who will listen - rather, who will hear or who will ACT

[expatpat]

...and Jimmy Carter's?

[Squire Eaton]

What to subscribers think of Jimmy Carter's participation is all of this? Is he really that naive and was just being used or has he a private reason for being involved. What do you think??

Squire Eaton

[cyncooper]

And now the reasons for the traitor and child rapist Scott Ritter's sudden conversion to the Hussein point of view are fully exposed.

It's been exposed as it was plain when the list first came out. I prefer to say it's getting fully documented.

And guess where Scott's writings appear these days? Al Jazeera.

[cyncooper]

Thanks for the ping.

[KOZ.]

$400,000 is a lot of money.

ritter could buy a lot of whoppers and kiddy meals from burger king with that kind of money

[cyncooper]

I hope we see some actual charges filed against somebody someday.

~sigh~

[doug from upland]

Let's not accuse Ritter of something he did not do. He is not a child rapist. He just liked to show girls what he could do with his whopper at the Burger King.