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  • U.S. Iraq oil claims target Chirac: French senator (GEE YA THINK!?)

    05/17/2005 11:56:45 AM PDT · by Paul_Denton · 5 replies · 594+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | May 14, 2005
    PARIS (Reuters) - A senior French politician said on Friday he had been implicated in an oil-for-food scam in Iraq in an effort to discredit President Jacques Chirac, a fierce opponent of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. A U.S. Senate report on Thursday said Senator Charles Pasqua -- once a close Chirac associate and former interior minister in a conservative government -- had received an allocation of 11 million barrels of oil with the personal approval of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The oil-for-food program allowed Iraq to sell limited oil supplies to buy basic goods and negotiate its own...