http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nothalliburton/ en-us Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:03:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1099449/posts The cover-up in the office of the U.N. secretary general of a multibillion-dollar financial fraud known as the Iraqi oil-for-food program is beginning to come apart. The scandal has been brewing for years. The first I learned of it was in a New York Times Op-Ed article last April by the journalist Claudia Rosett charging that the U.N.'s secretive oversight of more than $100 billion in Iraqi oil exports and supposed humanitarian imports was "an invitation to kickbacks, political back-scratching and smuggling done under cover of relief operations." After checking with Kurdish sources in Iraq, I reported that half the... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1099449/posts#comment Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067157/posts The following report from MEMRI's Baghdad office is a translation of an article which appeared in the Iraqi daily Al-Mada,(1) which obtained lists of 270 companies, organizations, and individuals awarded allocations (vouchers) of crude oil by Saddam Hussein's regime. The beneficiaries reside in 50 countries: 16 Arab, 17 European, 9 Asian, and the rest from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Only a portion of the 270 recipients are listed and identified. The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067157/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:56:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066798/posts <p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.</p> <p>The oil ministry papers, described by the independent Baghdad newspaper al-Mada, are apparently authentic and will become the basis of an official investigation by the new Iraqi Governing Council, the Independent reported Wednesday.</p> Washington Times - UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066798/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:52:27 GMT