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From: Suma	2/17/2005 12:16:26 PM
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IRAQ -- THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S SLICK DEALS: In the midst of the finger pointing taking place with regards to recent revelations about the United Nations oil-for-food program (http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=262149) , the Bush administration must have been thankful that so much attention was going towards the oil-for-food kickbacks. New testimonials reveal that the Treasury Department " directly abetted Jordan's efforts (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30725-2005Feb16.html) to build up its strategic reserves with smuggled Iraqi oil in the weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003." It was those types of duplicitous dealings, which "took place outside of the Iraq oil-for-food program," and not the alleged oil-for-food kickbacks, that provided "the bulk of [Saddam Hussein's] illicit oil sale revenues." Neither the Pentagon nor the Treasury Department has commented on these latest allegations, but they do seem content to allow excessive attention to be given to the oil-for-food kickbacks rather than their role in the illicit oil exports.

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