U.S. probes if Syria spent Iraq oil profit

[sabra]

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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/12228996.htm

U.S. probes if Syria spent Iraq oil profit

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS - Syria misspent more than $500 million in Iraqi oil money left over in its central bank after a three-year stretch of doing business with Baghdad in defiance of U.N. sanctions, U.S. investigators claimed in documents obtained Tuesday.

A House of Representatives subcommittee is questioning if the money, deposited in two accounts at Syria's Central Bank, was later used to finance attacks in Iraq. The United States has repeatedly claimed that insurgents used the bank to launder cash.

The documents were to be the focus of a Wednesday hearing by the subcommittee, on the Middle East and Central Asia, about Syria's relationship with Iraq at the time of the $64 billion U.N. oil-for-food program.

"The public deserves to know Syria's role in the oil-for-food scandal and there needs to be an accounting of those funds to ensure they aren't being used against us," subcommittee Chairman Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, said in a statement.

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[3waygeek]

1. Damn Syrians...

we stole that money fair & square!

[Jazzgirl]

2. No!! The public deserves to know

what happened to the 9 billion that disappeared from Iraq under Bremer's control. $500 mil is pennies compared to that!! :mad:

[MasonJar]

3. This is just another 500 million stolen by Cheney.

[bemildred]

4. Rohrabacher.

:banghead::banghead:

[lakeguy]

5. whupty f'in do...

how much did the US collect during the food for oil scandle?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. What about the $20B missing under us?

Half a billion? Petty theft.

[daleo]

7. Bushco wants its cut

A couple hundred million and it'll hush the whole thing up.

[Chicago Democrat]

8. Syria probes if US spent Iraq oil profit!

Lets call the whole thing off!

You say Zionist and I say Terrorist
You say Crusade and I say Liberator

[PurityOfEssence]

9. Junior's mob is going to fuck that country if it's the last thing they do

With any luck, it will be.

The PNAC is so obsessed with buttressing Israel that they can't see straight even in perilous situations like the ones they find themselves in right now. With their last gasp, they'll ratfuck that country just as Hitler diverted trains from sending clothing, food and munitions to embattled troops on the Eastern Front so they could ship Jews to their deaths. The priorities get obvious in times of strife.

Our only hope is that they just don't have the wherewithal to do it.

[leesa]

10. Oh! That's a good one! Blame the theft you pulled off on the neighbors.