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
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
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
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.”
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.
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