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theearthisround Donating Member (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:42 AM
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US 'approved' oil smuggling
http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=1070

The largest oil consignment smuggled out of Iraq took place with US approval just weeks before the April 2003 invasion, according to a United Nations report.

The Independent Inquiry Committee has spent the past year examining the now defunct UN oil-for-food program.
The report blamed UN officials and the Security Council for mismanagement that allowed former leader Saddam Hussein to divert more than $10 billion from kickbacks and smuggling.

But it also faulted the United States and other Security Council members for ignoring violations of UN sanctions.

All funds raised from the sale of the oil was supposed to be used to buy humanitarian goods.

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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:45 AM
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1. Our oil-diggers and energy-mongers in charge knew exactly,...
Edited on Thu Sep-08-05 10:46 AM by Just Me
,...what was going on because they constituted part of a profiteering constituency who benefitted by looking the other way. They got pissed when Saddam began backing away from contracts and switched to euros.

We are ruled by money-grubbers and power-mongers.
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