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Posted on 03/17/2006 1:11:38 PM PST by proud_yank
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's government faced more criticism Friday after acknowledging its intelligence agencies knew eight years ago that Saddam Hussein was using the U.N. oil-for-food program to take financial kickbacks.
The scam is the subject of a top level inquiry into whether Australia's monopoly wheat exporter, AWB Ltd., knowingly paid up to $222 million in bribes through the Jordanian company to win lucrative contracts.
The money then was allegedly diverted to the former Iraqi dictator via a Jordanian company.
While AWB is the focus of the inquiry, Prime Minister John Howard's government is coming under increased scrutiny.
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I'm confused. The Australians are under attack for knowing about a scandal which the MSM still has yet to admit existed?
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That is quite the list you have compiled backhoe, thanks for all the work you do!
I wonder if Pat Buchanan knew?
He used to complain that the brutal USA was starving and depriving Iraqi children of their medicines.
Thanks for looking.
No prob. Bookmarked too, always nice to have an arsenal like that to send to libs I know!
Yep. When Buchanan started fighting to lift the sanctions, I stopped taking him seriously.
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