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To: LindyBill who wrote (41368)	4/29/2004 4:59:50 AM
From: Elsewhere	of 793926

The recent increased coverage of the oil-for-food scandal was initiated by a new Iraqi paper, al-Mada. Saddam's web of bribery 'went round the world' By Philip Delves Broughton in Paris and Jack Fairweather in Baghdad (Filed: 28/01/2004) telegraph.co.uk Saddam Hussein bribed his way around the world, buying the support of presidents, ministers, legislators, political parties and even Christian churches, according to documents published in Iraq. The list of those who allegedly benefited from Saddam's largesse spans 46 countries. According to the newspaper al-Mada, one of the new publications that have emerged since the removal of the dictator, Saddam offered each of his friends lucrative contracts to trade in millions of barrels of Iraqi crude under the United Nations oil-for-food programme. The 270 individuals and organisations alleged to be in his pay included the sons of a serving Arab president, Arab ministers, a prominent Indonesian leader, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, the party led by the Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and even the Russian Orthodox Church. ...

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