Was America mentioned in the Duelfer Report?

There are two American individuals involved in the Oil for Food scandal.

One is named al Khafaji.

The other is named Vincent.

Al Khafaji is the guy who bribed Scott Ritter by paying him $400,000 or so to make his documyth propaganda film to push the idea of lifting sanctions on Iraq.

Al Khafaji is the guy who donated to Democrat Cynthia McKinney on Sept 10 or 11, 2001. At least that's when the donation was recorded.

There are other Democrats and leftwingers who have accepted money from the guy, and his money of course came in part from sales of oil vouchers given to him by Hussein. He also arranged PR visits to Iraq for US officials, including congressmen McDermott, Bonior, and Thompson. Khafaji owns Falcon Trading Group, a company based in South Africa and I'm guessing it could also be a front for Hussein.

Vincent is a guy who I believe arranged PR meetings back and forth between Iraqis and influential Americans. One such event was a trip by Iraqi clerics to the US where they met with Jimmy Carter.

There are no other known Americans on the list but as I understood it, the list may be incomplete.

There are probably companies in almost ALL countries involved in the scandal- whether they were knowingly involved, though, is another matter. No doubt there are American companies involved, though relatively few because US companies know the Feds would be on them in a heartbeat if they knowingly made illicit sales.

French companies, on the other hand, may know they will receive a pass from their government.

Because of Iraq's habit of using front companies, a foreign company could sell banned items legally to a company in a country other than Iraq. the problem with the sanctions system, is how can anyone tell if a company based outside Iraq isn't a front company for Iraq? It isn't always easy. In that case, how can you blame the company?

Now if a company knows that its product is one which requires a run through the commerce dept for approval, or is being sent to a country on the sanctions list, and deliberately avoids checking with Commerce, then you can say they were to blame.

So don't go off half-cocked just because a kidney machine company (for example) sold switches to a company which looked for all the world like a legal entity in the UAE or Luxembourg and then that second company in turn sold the goods to an Iraqi front or smuggled them into Iraq, which then used them on a nuclear bomb design. In that case it's only the knowing party that screwed up. It's not uncommon to have no idea what the end use of your products will be.

That goes for all companies, not just US ones. Even a French company may have simply not known.

The money McDermott took from al Khafaji- which also included some 5,000 bucks to travel to iraq- was given to McDermott indirectly- paid to his legal defense fund.

You see, his legal defense fund was something he set up to fight the lawsuit filed by a Republican on whose cell phone conversations some Democrat activists from FL had illegally eavesdropped. They used a scanner to pick up the converrsation, pretended to have just been a little old couple that liked police scanners and had done it all by accident.

Problem is, the quality of the recording was EXTREMELY high. Very professionally done.

The couple turned the recording over to McDermott to use politically against Gingrich and others. Quite a coincidence, I'm sure.

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Comprehensive
Report
_____________________

of the
Special Advisor to the DCI
on
Iraq’s WMD

30 September 2004

This report relays the findings of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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