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Papewaio
11-11-2005, 21:38
Iraq halts trade over AWB deals (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17216929-421,00.html)


A UN investigation found the payments from AWB totalled 14per cent of all kickbacks received by the regime under the program, with the Australian company paying five times more than any other company in the world.


THE Iraqi Government has suspended all future orders for Australian wheat - deals worth up to $800 million a year - until the monopoly wheat exporter repays the hundreds of millions of dollars of its money used as kickbacks to prop up the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Controversial Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi told The Weekend Australian yesterday that he expected AWB, the former Australian Wheat Board, to pay the new Iraqi Government compensation for the $290million AWB sent to a Jordanian trucking group, Alia, that later turned out to be a front company for the dictator.

Which sounds to me not more like another kickback...for having done kickbacks before? I don't think that is the correct form of penalty... criminal charges yes, but bribes no.


The wheat contracts are among Australia's most important export deals, and it was the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that gave AWB permission to start making payments to Alia.

Those payments rocketed into the hundreds of millions, and AWB made most of them just as John Howard was making plans to send Australian troops to Iraq to depose Saddam.


Hmm, stupid is that stupid does. Funding someone and then sending troops to fight that person is just plain wrong.
Divinus Arma
11-11-2005, 21:42
Seem like the US is the only one who wasn't supporting saddam.
Papewaio
11-11-2005, 21:48
No like steroids in your olympic athletes you just use versions that are harder to detect. ~;) ~:joker:

Aussies, just can't help giving food to people cheaper then the rest of the West...

I wonder how our SAS feel after apparently going in prior to the pre-emptive strike and now finding out Saddam was funded by our own country to the tune of $230 million... thats about 2 pounds in the UK btw.
Brenus
11-11-2005, 22:23
And me who believed it was just the bad French, Germans and Russians who took the money…~:)
Tribesman
11-11-2005, 22:39
Seem like the US is the only one who wasn't supporting saddam.

Yep Taurus oil isn't a US company is it , neither is Texaco/chevron or Exxon/moblie , what about Bay oil thats not American either , nor Chrysler (though of course like other firms it is joint owned) .~D ~D ~D
I wonder how many US citizens have been indicted so far over the scandal ~;)
So it seems that you forgot that many of the findings about the scandal are in the public domain Divinus ~;)

Slightly off topic , but I wonder how much money Kofi Annans son got paid today by Murdochs media empire over the made up allegations it published about him and the oil for food scandal . Perhaps they should have just stuck to the true allegations eh ~D
Divinus Arma
11-11-2005, 22:41
Seem like the US is the only one who wasn't supporting saddam.

Yep Taurus oil isn't a US company is it , neither is Texaco/chevron or Exxon/moblie , what about Bay oil thats not American either , nor Chrysler (though of course like other firms it is joint owned) .~D ~D ~D
I wonder how many US citizens have been indicted so far over the scandal ~;)
So it seems that you forgot that many of the findings about the scandal are in the public domain Divinus ~;)

Slightly off topic , but I wonder how much money Kofi Annans son got paid today by Murdochs media empire over the made up allegations it published about him and the oil for food scandal . Perhaps they should have just stuck to the true allegations eh ~D

really? these companies? show me a link.
Adrian II
11-11-2005, 22:50
I wonder how much money Kofi Annans son got paid today by Murdochs media empire over the made up allegations it published about him and the oil for food scandal.Fox doesn't carry it. Care to cough up some links, Mr President?
Tribesman
11-11-2005, 23:11
Hey when did I start doing links , doubt me if you want to ~;)

Fox doesn't carry it.
You mean the Murdoch media empire isn't covering the story that it lost a court case about making up stories .~D ~D ~D
Adrian II
11-11-2005, 23:48
(..) doubt me if you want to ~;)Wouldn't dare. ~:rolleyes:

Anyway, I just missed that court case story. A fellar can't cover everything.
Papewaio
11-11-2005, 23:48
You do realise that the link is to a Murdoch media company?
Adrian II
11-11-2005, 23:49
You do realise that the link is to a Murdoch media company?This @me or at @Tribesman? I check them every day.

EDIT
D'uh. Sorry, my bad...
Papewaio
11-11-2005, 23:54
We own your media ~D

So aimed at everyone particularly the brits as they have to put up with packer...
Tribesman
11-12-2005, 01:39
We own your media
Nah , he isn't Australian anymore is he ~;)
Ser Clegane
11-12-2005, 19:10
really? these companies? show me a link.

Here you will find the lists of the oil voucher recipients within the "Oil for Food" program:

Duelfer report (http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/chap2_annxB.html)

Conveniently the US companies that are often on top of the list have been disguised (I am aware that this happened for legal reasons, however, it still seems a bit strange to selectively disguise the names of US companies).
Kralizec
11-12-2005, 19:12
When I read the thread's title, I thought of something like "Ok, so Australia is the worst pick when I plan to pull of something similar" ~D
Papewaio
11-14-2005, 23:16
US punishes AWB over Iraq bribes (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17246219-2,00.html)


THE US Government has punished the former Australian Wheat Board for its role in funnelling $290 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein.

In the first official action from the Bush administration over the disclosure of bribes to Saddam under the UN food-for-oil program, AWB has been banned from using US credit programs.

...

Last Friday the US Department of Agriculture advised AWB it was being suspended from the USDA Supplier Credit Guarantee Program.
As the biggest single trader of wheat on the US futures market, AWB's north American arm had the right to use US taxpayer-funded credit guarantees for wheat and other crop deals.

The US Department of Agriculture explicitly told AWB that the suspension was a result of the allegations contained in the Volcker report about the bribes to Saddam's regime.

Interesting, I hope this is applied to all companies found involved.
bmolsson
11-15-2005, 02:12
Australia ?? Hmmm.....
Adrian II
11-15-2005, 08:34
Australia ?? Hmmm.....I couldn't have said it better, BMolsson. There are things in life that you can't just walk away from and this is one of them. It's great to see someone prepared to stand up and be counted.
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