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Oil For Food Program Scandal; Possible Al Qaeda Links
Topic Started: Oct 26 2004, 11:14 AM (181 Views)
teryt
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The whole Oil for Food program mess is getting much more traction these days, and is starting to implicate big players. Many are hinting that while the UN will survive the scandal, is may be severily hobbled, and it's slide to irrelevance accelerated.

Here's an interesting piece which says there are some documents surfacing that shows Saddam had some linkage with Al Qaeda thru this program. With all the billions of $$ flying around, everyone wanted a piece.

Oil for Food linkages

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Now, buried in some of the United Nation's own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort. (To review a series of documents, audits and other stories related to Oil-for-Food, click here.)

Next to that door, a festive sign spells out in gold letters under a green flag that this is the office of MIGA, the Malaysian Swiss Gulf and African Chamber (search). Registered here 20 years ago as a society to promote business between the Gulf States and Asia, Europe and Africa, MIGA is a company that the United Nations and the U.S. government says has served as a hub of Al Qaeda finance: A terrorist chamber of commerce.

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teryt
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Surprised no one commented on this. Perhaps it was discussed elsewhere.
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Extensively. And this article is grasping at straws to establish terrorist ties and lacking a sense of history told very well in the 9/11 Commission Report.
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teryt
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Well sorry I missed that discussion, but it seems that the things coming out now regarding the Oil for Food program are new revelations.
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jackd
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teryt:
very nasty things can happen when oil is mixed with food.
...but the CIA is not talking..
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Bush administration officials who asked not to be identified confirmed that US investigators in Iraq have targeted several American companies and individuals.

Exxon Mobil Corp., ChevronTexaco Corp. and Valero Energy Corp. are named in the investigation but the CIA lawyers ordered Duelfer to keep secret names of Americans and American companies"
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Yep, the White House insisted they be whited out for security reasons. :no:
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teryt
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Well, I'm afraid I might be named in the Oil for Food scandel, but that doesn't negate the possibility that there are documents showing payments to Al Qaeda.
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Tery's strong argument "some documents surfacing that shows Saddam had some linkage with Al Qaeda thru this program"

Tery's weaker argument "doesn't negate the possibility that there are documents showing payments to Al Qaeda"

Story neither is based on "Now, buried in some of the United Nation's own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort."

Reads like Agatha Christie.
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teryt
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We shall see, maybe. And I'm 100% positive about that!

BTW - Did you read the full article, which is somewhat lengthy & complex - or did you just hit on my quote? This thing is a huge mess, with some very interesting implications (yes, probably traced to the US too). When dealing in the far-reaching complexities of the UN, one must be diligent & patient.
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There's links to Haliburton & through them Dick Cheney as well. When big money is involved, corporations have no conscience.
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