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Offline Ripsnort

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« on: November 17, 2004, 07:01:39 PM »
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Probe: Oil funds paid for bombers

   
 
By Desmond Butler
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, November 17, 2004


NEW YORK -- Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, say congressional investigators who uncovered evidence of the money trail.
The former Iraqi president tapped secret bank accounts in Jordan -- where he collected bribes from foreign companies and individuals doing illicit business under the humanitarian program -- to reward the families up to $25,000 each, investigators told The Associated Press.

Documents prepared for a hearing today by the House International Relations Committee outline the new findings.

Today's hearing, however, will focus on a French bank that handled most of the money for the program. An audit by a U.S. regulatory agency of a small sample of transactions out of the $60 billion U.N. escrow account managed by BNP-Paribas has raised serious questions concerning the bank's compliance with American money-laundering laws, investigators said.

 
 
 
 

"There are indications that the bank may have been noncompliant in administering the oil-for-food program,"

committee chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said. "If true, these possible banking lapses may have facilitated Saddam Hussein's manipulation and corruption of the program."

While acknowledging that U.S. regulators have raised routine issues with BNP on compliance with banking laws, a lawyer for BNP said Hyde's statement was unfair.

"No departure from any standard caused or contributed in any way to the abuse at the oil-for-food program," the bank's lead counsel, Robert S. Bennett, said. "There are simply no connections."

The humanitarian program let Iraq trade oil for food, medicine and other items. But investigators say Saddam made more than $21.3 billion in illegal revenue under the program.



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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2004, 07:07:26 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2004, 07:07:38 PM »
If anyone has ever thaught Sadam has no link to terrorism they are blind or ignorant.  This just shows that Europe helped pay to blow up school children in busses.
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2004, 07:11:04 PM »
I don't expect to hear from Gsholtz or Staga in this thread...
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2004, 07:11:55 PM »
Except to be compared to Nazis that is.

http://www.husseinandterror.com/
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2004, 07:15:47 PM »
GSchlitz will know the real scoop. He knows everything.
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2004, 08:34:20 PM »
whats the rep. on the Assc. Press?

just like you supported Israel with shootin people throwing rocks...

here's my thinking Rip, If someone is so fixated on strapping TnT on himself, there must be a passionate event he has trouble dealing with, say like rockets blowing his house up with his Family inside...

2 sides to every coin Rip, please try to be objective...

playing Devils advocate, please no childish finger pointing, you retards know who you are......right.....hmmm maybe not:D
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2004, 08:47:03 PM »
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whats the rep. on the Assc. Press?

just like you supported Israel with shootin people throwing rocks...

here's my thinking Rip, If someone is so fixated on strapping TnT on himself, there must be a passionate event he has trouble dealing with, say like rockets blowing his house up with his Family inside...

2 sides to every coin Rip, please try to be objective...

playing Devils advocate, please no childish finger pointing, you retards know who you are......right.....hmmm maybe not:D


SLO actually has a point in that there is 2 sides.

I must say that passion to kill innocents really just gets by me. And , I'm not even blonde :lol

Not sure I really understand any of it anymore with Isreal and Palistine. Seems like the real reason is now long lost in a lot of blood shed and revenge.
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2004, 08:50:05 PM »
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Originally posted by SLO
whats the rep. on the Assc. Press?

just like you supported Israel with shootin people throwing rocks...

here's my thinking Rip, If someone is so fixated on strapping TnT on himself, there must be a passionate event he has trouble dealing with, say like rockets blowing his house up with his Family inside...

2 sides to every coin Rip, please try to be objective...

playing Devils advocate, please no childish finger pointing, you retards know who you are......right.....hmmm maybe not:D


The way I understand it, it may not be that drastic. Imagine someone you really respect, like a father figure telling you every chance they get that everything that is wrong in your world, from Poverty to disease to hopelessness, is caused by a certain group of people.

You hear this over and over again for 20 years. You start to believe it, and being that you've got nothing to live for anyway...well...
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2004, 10:00:01 PM »
So let the UN find this money and use it to pay their dues and get off our backs.    That  seems fair enough.   It's not like they're going to jail.  That's covered by 'Diplomatic Imunity' so they can do just about any 'farking' thing they want in their 'Oil for Cash (to us)' progam.

The only thing that could be worse is if France, Russia and Germany were involved.   But we all know that's not possiable.. right?   I mean there's no chance that their opposition to the War in Iraq was based on economic gain.  After all,  they're from Europe where everyone is just so 'good'.
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2004, 11:24:35 PM »
Two sides to every coin.

Here's a coin, SLO.

On the day Israel was founded, the PM extended an olive branch to the Arab world, saying he hoped Israel could live peacefully w/ it's neighbors.

Do you know how long Arabs waited to declare war on Israel?


Hint:   less than 24 hours.

What about that 2 sided coin?
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Re: Saddams Oil for Food program paid for suicide bombers
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2004, 02:27:05 AM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Discuss.

The discussion will fell short soon from your article :

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Today's hearing, however, will focus on a French bank that handled most of the money for the program. An audit by a U.S. regulatory agency of a small sample of transactions out of the $60 billion U.N. escrow account managed by BNP-Paribas has raised serious questions concerning the bank's compliance with American money-laundering laws, investigators said.


I'm perhaps wrong  but should a American bank respect French laws ?
(btw if it's illegal in France they should pay)
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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2004, 02:50:51 AM »
It may be true but....congressional investigators? Who are they? How did they get the evidence? What is the evidence?

And the biggest question: are they republicans trying to justify Iraq's invasion afterwards?
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« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2004, 02:55:36 AM »
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The only thing that could be worse is if France, Russia and Germany were involved.   But we all know that's not possiable.. right?   I mean there's no chance that their opposition to the War in Iraq was based on economic gain.  After all,  they're from Europe where everyone is just so 'good'.


If gain there was it was not for the country but more for some individuals. Me think France (the country) make a lot more buziness with USA daily than it was ever made with the oil-for-food program
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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2004, 02:58:50 AM »
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IMO Kofi, and his ilk, paid for the death of Israeli children.


Oh, how emotive of you. To say that successive US administrations have paid for the death of Palestinian children would be equally true.

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...raised serious questions concerning the bank's compliance with American money-laundering laws..


American law applies to French banks now?

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If anyone has ever thaught Sadam has no link to terrorism they are blind or ignorant. This just shows that Europe helped pay to blow up school children in busses.


Two points.

1) The US has contributed money to the Palestinian Authority. Using your own logic, this would imply that the US has also helped pay to "blow up school children in busses" (sic)

2) No-one has ever seriously argued that there were no links between the Ba'athists and Palestinian organizations. Such links are a matter of record. Similar links exist with the Syrian regime and the Kuwaiti and Saudi regimes (both prime US allies but don't let that bother you). What the less logically challenged amongst us have argued is that such links constitute  no threat to the USA, especially not one warranting military action on the scale recently witnessed. That's a nice straw man you've constructed though.

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I mean there's no chance that their opposition to the War in Iraq was based on economic gain. After all, they're from Europe where everyone is just so 'good'.


The thing is, once you peer past all the emotive crap, the self-righteous moralising and the bogus rationalisations for war, the truth is that the US rush was to war to equally motivated by material considerations. I 'm sure that you're psychologically unable to grasp this idea, but it doesn't make it any less true.
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