Saddam Hussein rewarded his/her "friends" out of barrels for oil...

[cantwealljustgetalong]

Saddam Hussein rewarded his/her foreign friends, in particular all those who were the zealoies of its mode and were made the ambassadors of them. That was known. More than ten months after the fall of the Iraqi dictatorship, of the elements of proof were published for the first time, Sunday January 25, by an independent newspaper Al-Mada ( the Horizon ).

On a full page, this new slack daily newspaper in its 45 E number, the list of more than 270 known or unknown personalities, companies, members of Parliament, associations, the journalists, the political parties which benefitted from generosities of the deposed raïs. Facsimiled with the support, this newspaper denounces "the greatest operation of corruption" of Ancien Régime. And it affirms that "million oil barrels was offered to individuals who have nothing to do with the oil activities" . On the whole, 16 Arab countries, 17 Europeans, 9 Asian and 4 of North and Africa and South America are concerned with this operation of reward.

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For France, not less than eleven names are published with the quantity of oil barrels which were allocated to them. Among them, written with a sometimes approximate orthography and including/understanding some uncertainties on the first names or headings of companies and associations, appear the company Adax, Patrick Maugein de Traficor or Travicor, Michel Grimard, the association of friendship arabo-Frenchwoman, Charles Pasqua, Elias El-Ferzeli or Ghazarli of Lebanese origin, Claude Kaspereit, Bernard Mérimée (former ambassador from France to Rome and UNO), Bernard Desmaret and De Souza.

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A LETTER OF THE SOMO

George Gallaway, former Labour deputy with the Communes, appears in good place in the list. Its name is mentioned in six contracts and the newspaper publishes a letter of the SOMO on December 31, 1999, signed by Saddam Zbin, cousin of Saddam Hussein which managed this company and in which it asks for the ministry for oil of grant contracts to him. Apparently, this British member of Parliament was particularly well treated. But it is not only.

In this very long list appears also Khaled, the son of Egyptian president Nasser, the son of the Syrian Minister for defense, the son of the president of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud, the girl of the president indonésien Sukarno, Megawati, today Prime Minister, the Russian orthodoxe church and the Russian Communist Party.

The Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Jirinovski, it, particularly are also well parcelled out (79,2 million barrels). Swiss companies, Italian nationals, Jordanian deputies, Egyptian politicians, the Popular Front of release of Palestine (FPLP), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are quoted. The list is not exhaustive.

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[shrlnaw]

1. Is it any wonder...

No wonder France threatened a U.N. Security Bullshit Council Veto against America.

[markses]

4. To believe one word of that nonsense

requires an alienation from reality too grave to be treated lightly. Any child would know it was bullshit.

I suggest help, as some therapeutic correction is definitely necessary.

Of course, on the issue of the UN Resolution, the US - if we remember correctly - did not even have the requisite votes to force a veto. I mean, please.

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[pinto]

6. "I try to splash you" and other comments you take with pillars of salt bag

[markses]

2. Ay yay yay

As if, if these documents were serious, this story wouldn't be printed on the front page of every newspaper in the world.

That and you're subjecting people to this no doubt awful translation. is there suddenly a question as to Saddam Hussein's gender?

Laughable pile of nonsenses.

[papau]

3. I do like how honest our US oil industry was !

:-)

And after the CIA and the UN cleared George Gallaway, we finally get the real dope from this list - which others may have called fake when first "discovered" 6 months ago, but now we know as valid!