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Coal, you will find this very interesting.

The Companies of the Russian Communist Party received in the form of a bribe 137 million barrels of oil from Saddam. YUKOS CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky is an extremely influential figure in the Russian Communist Party. Khodorkovsky has a close business relationship with the Bush family's Carlyle Group who leaves itself open to any number of conflicts of interest and stunning ironies. I would go so far as to call Khodorkovsky Bush's puppet.

Something is very wrong here; I would not point my finger only at France. –Am

Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040128-094014-7323r.htm



Saddam’s Gifts
Document: Saddam Supporters Received Lucrative Oil Contracts

By Brian Ross

Jan. 29 — ABCNEWS has obtained an extraordinary list that contains the names of prominent people around the world who supported Saddam Hussein's regime and were given oil contracts as a result.

The following are the names of some of those who, according to the document, received Iraqi oil contracts (amounts are in millions of barrels of oil):

Russia
The Companies of the Russian Communist Party: 137 million
The Companies of the Liberal Democratic Party: 79.8 million
The Russian Committee for Solidarity with Iraq: 6.5 million and 12.5 million (2 separate contracts)
Head of the Russian Presidential Cabinet: 90 million
The Russian Orthodox Church: 5 million


France
Charles Pasqua, former minister of interior: 12 million
Trafigura (Patrick Maugein), businessman: 25 million
Ibex: 47.2 million
Bernard Merimee, former French ambassador to the United Nations: 3 million
Michel Grimard, founder of the French-Iraqi Export Club: 17.1 million

Syria
Firas Mostafa Tlass, son of Syria's defense minister: 6 million

Turkey
Zeynel Abidin Erdem: more than 27 million
Lotfy Doghan: more than 11 million

Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri: 11 million

Spain
Ali Ballout, Lebanese journalist: 8.8 million

Yugoslavia
The Socialist Party: 22 million
Kostunica's Party: 6 million

Canada
Arthur Millholland, president and CEO of Oilexco: 9.5 million

Italy
Father Benjamin, a French Catholic priest who arranged a meeting between the pope and Tariq Aziz: 4.5 million
Roberto Frimigoni: 24.5 million

United States
Samir Vincent: 7 million
Shakir Alkhalaji: 10.5 million

United Kingdom
George Galloway, member of Parliament: 19 million
Mujaheddin Khalq: 36.5 million

South Africa
Tokyo Saxwale: 4 million

Jordan
Shaker bin Zaid: 6.5 million
The Jordanian Ministry of Energy: 5 million
Fawaz Zureikat: 6 million
Toujan Al Faisal, former member of Parliament: 3 million

Lebanon
The son of President Lahoud: 5.5 million

Egypt
Khaled Abdel Nasser: 16.5 million
Emad Al Galda, businessman and Parliament member: 14 million

Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian Liberation Organization: 4 million
Abu Al Abbas: 11.5 million

Qatar
Hamad bin Ali Al Thany: 14 million

Libya
Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem: 1 million

Chad
Foreign minister of Chad: 3 million

Brazil
The October 8th Movement: 4.5 million

Myanmar (Burma)
The minister of the Forests of Myanmar: 5 million

Ukraine
The Social Democratic Party: 8.5 million
The Communist Party: 6 million
The Socialist Party: 2 million
The FTD oil company: 2 million

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/saddam_oil_vouchers_040129-1.html




Reference:
Mr Khodorkovsky, for example, was able to draw on his fairly high position within the Young Communist League, which in the dying days of the Soviet Union was busy setting up commercial enterprises with public money.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3213853.stm

YUKOS CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been considered by the Communist Party as a possible candidate for the 2004 presidential elections but several other candidates have also been considered.
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:4NhN6Q0G9z0J:newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/10/28/50858.html+russ....

In interviews with the Forward, Lazar and Satanovsky said that Khodorkovsky had been trying to gain too much power in the political arena, criticizing, in particular, his support of Russia's Communist Party, which contains strong strains of Soviet-era antisemitism.
"The future of the country shouldn't be in the hands of one man who has money," Lazar said. "[Khodorkovsky] supported the Communist Party, and that is not for the best of the country."
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.11.14/news9.russia.html


Khodorkovsky sought a meeting with the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that he spent heavily in Washington to court the Capitol's inner circle, that last July, he met with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to discuss America's oil policy, that former President George H. W. Bush traveled to Russia in September and spoke at a dinner attended by Mr. Khodorkovsky and that the nefarious Carlyle Group, an investment bank that retained the elder Mr. Bush as an adviser until a few weeks ago, has a close business relationship with Mr. Khodorkovsky? The Carlyle Group is composed of former world leaders and Washington insiders who are making billions in the war on terrorism. “In running what its own marketing literature spookily calls ‘a vast, interlocking, global network of businesses and investment professionals’ that operates within the so-called iron triangle of industry, government, and the military, the Carlyle Group leaves itself open to any number of conflicts of interest and stunning ironies.”
http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20031113/ON2003111300....

The Israeli/CIA complex was using Khodorkovsky to sell off the assets of YUKOS to Exxon/Mobil (as well as a smaller piece to Texaco), hence bringing Russia's pipelines into the hands of the western powers. The Nov. 5 New York Times also indicated that the Bush family's Carlyle Group was involved. The nefarious Carlyle Group is composed of former world leaders and Washington insiders who are making billions in the war on terrorism. “In running what its own marketing literature spookily calls ‘a vast, interlocking, global network of businesses and investment professionals’ that operates within the so-called iron triangle of industry, government, and the military, the Carlyle Group leaves itself open to any number of conflicts of interest and stunning ironies.”

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/9946.php

Samir Vincent

United States: Samir Vincent received 10.5 million barrels. In 2000, Vincent, an Iraqi-born American citizen who has lived in the U.S. since 1958, organized a delegation of Iraqi religious leaders to visit the U.S. and meet with former president Jimmy Carter.

And, then, we find this:

Many people are mobilizing to effect a change in this failed international policy. Iraqi-born U.S. citizen Samir Vincent, who has lived in the United States since 1958, calls action on the embargo a “political dead end.” He and Dr. Joseph Ritchie, also a private citizen, decided to go down a different road—away from politics and politicians, toward the world of religious belief and influence. The two businessmen prevailed upon Dr. Billy Graham to invite the Iraqi religious leaders to visit several sites in the United States—and later, London, England.

Vincent, a Chaldean Catholic, was with the delegation throughout the U.S. visit. Their travels—to Boston, Detroit, Atlanta, Plains (Georgia) and New York City—began inauspiciously with an hour-and-a-half grilling by U.S. immigration officials. Dr. Ritchie placed his private plane at the service of the three Iraqi churchmen.

Later, he remarked that he was most inspired by their interfaith partnership in this quest to end the sanctions. When he is asked if things are moving in a good direction, Dr. Ritchie says, “Anyone of goodwill who listens for an hour to the entire scenario wants to end the embargo, but Americans listen to soundbites. We have to deliver the message in soundbites.”

Samir Vincent should be executed for treason.
posted by Adam at 5:20 PM



Shakir al-Khafaji

Posted by kattracks
On 05/01/2003 9:34:43 AM PDT with 76 comments

NewsMax.com ^ / 5/01/03 / Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who famously traveled to Baghdad last fall and pronounced President Bush a liar, accepted a cash payment less than a month later from an Iraqi-American businessman with ties to Saddam Hussein. McDermott collected the payment from Shakir al-Khafaji, the same Detroit-based Baghdad apologist who paid former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter $400,000 two years ago to make a pro-Saddam documentary about Iraq. Appearing live from Baghdad on the Sept. 29 broadcast of ABC's "This Week," McDermott proclaimed, "The president of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into...
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:wVw8G5Mx6VwJ:209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/k-alkhafaji/browse+Sha....

Since 1998, Ritter has earned his living as a
lecturer. He wrote "Endgame," which Simon & Schuster
is reissuing in paperback. With $400,000 from an Iraqi
American businessman, Shakir Alkhafaji, he produced a
documentary about Iraq, "In Shifting Sands," which
will also be the title of his next book. Ritter
bristles at the comparison to North, who invoked his
5th Amendment rights before Congress granted him
immunity. Ritter also insists that he has done no
180-degree turn, being a fan then and now of the power
and efficacy of inspections. And he is quite angry
about accusations that he has become Hussein's
lobbyist.

"I despise what Saddam has done to his people, I wish
... he'd drop dead," he said.

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:byQ1FhFnL34J:www.apfn.net/messageboard/9-18-02/discussion.cgi.5....


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