Re: 2200 companies oil-for-food = George Galloway O


Eh? wrote:
> 2200 companies oil-for-food = George Galloway O
>
> About 2200 companies in the UN oil-for-food programme, including
> corporations in the United States, France, Germany and Russia, paid a
> total of $1.8 billion in kickbacks and illicit surcharges to Saddam
> Hussein's government, a UN-backed investigation has said in its report.
>
> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E82EABE2-C615-467C-AD1C-479149F23385.htm


Aziz denies Galloway claims

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article323424.ece

Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, has denied
telling investigators that George Galloway personally profited from the
UN oil-for-food programme for Iraq.

Mr Aziz's lawyer, Badia Aref, described claims regarding the Respect MP
for Bethnal Green and Bow as "lies". Republican Senator Norm Coleman
used interviews with Aziz as evidence that Saddam's regime granted 23
million barrels of oil to Mr Galloway and his Mariam Appeal fund. The
US Congressional report said Aziz, under questioning by the
subcommittee, had discussed oil allocations with Galloway. "These are
lies ... He [Aziz] denied this," Mr Aref said. "It is part of a media
campaign aimed at smearing Galloway's reputation," said the lawyer.


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