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UN-Controlled Funds Used For Suicide Attacks
 The U.S. Congress has determined that Iraqi oil revenues supervised by the United Nations were diverted to fund suicide Palestinian operations against Israel. Congressional investigators have found evidence that then-President Saddam Hussein used money from the UN oil-for-food program to pay families of Palestinian suicide bombers in 2001 and 2002. The investigators said Saddam paid up to $25,000 to the family of any Palestinian who died in a successful suicide operation. A successful suicide attack was deemed as one in which Israelis were killed. "According to the information provided to this committee, Saddam paid $25,000 rewards to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers through the Iraqi ambassador to Jordan out of accounts in the Rafidain bank in Amman, which held kickback money Saddam demanded from suppliers to his regime," House International Relations Committee chairman Rep. Henry Hyde said during a hearing on Wednesday. "Evidence also points to Saddam extending the Arab League boycott against Israel, requiring companies dealing in the program to sign letters conforming to the boycott." Rafidain was identified as a government-owned bank based in Baghdad with branches in Jordan. Posted by: Fred 2005-01-21 |
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