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2004-10-07 Europe
France Urges "Caution" in Oil-For-Food Case
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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-07 3:08:00 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Duplicate posting.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-07 3:12:31 PM||   2004-10-07 3:12:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2  Pretty as picture
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-07 3:12:46 PM||   2004-10-07 3:12:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Prom picture?
Posted by tu3031 2004-10-07 3:13:32 PM||   2004-10-07 3:13:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Gay marriage ceremony in Taxachusetts?
Posted by John (Q. Citizen) 2004-10-07 3:32:12 PM||   2004-10-07 3:32:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Extreme Makeover U.N. Edition?
Posted by Dreadnought 2004-10-07 3:33:45 PM||   2004-10-07 3:33:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 In the midst of all these denials, it might be useful to dig up some stories about illegal ship activity in the gulf between 1991-2002.
Posted by jules 187 2004-10-07 3:36:03 PM||   2004-10-07 3:36:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jules, very good idea, there are trade publications and records for each and every supertaker enter and exiting the Gulf.
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-07 4:06:48 PM||   2004-10-07 4:06:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I seem to remember a couple stories about ships carrying oil of suspect origin-the stories came out in the 90s, if I remember correctly. At that time, it sounded like Russia was connected to the activity. Maybe there were joint ventures we haven't even tapped the surface of yet.
Posted by jules 187 2004-10-07 4:13:45 PM||   2004-10-07 4:13:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 From the 90s-all I could find for now. It's kinda amusing, considering that it comes from that bastion of righteousness, the beeb:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/despatches/69411.stm

Posted by jules 187 2004-10-07 5:10:55 PM||   2004-10-07 5:10:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Dick Morris outlines the gang of thieves well in a FRONT PAGE magazine article in April :
Dick Morris Article

The list of those receiving these bribes includes France's former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua (who's a leader of Chirac's party) and Patrick Maugein, the head of the French Oil firm Soco International. France's former UN ambassador, Jean-Bernard Merimee, got vouchers to sell 11 million barrels.


Posted by BigEd 2004-10-07 5:19:26 PM||   2004-10-07 5:19:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The CIA names names:
Among the alleged recipients of oil vouchers were Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his Liberal Democratic Party, the Russian presidential office, the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Ukraine Community Party, the Ukraine Socialist Party, the son of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud and the Peoples Liberation Front of Palestine. There are also many others.

The only U.N. official on the list is Benon Sevan, the head of the humanitarian program for Iraq, who has been accused previously of receiving an oil voucher and has denied it several times. He is list as a Mr. Sifan, a U.N. official.
Posted by mojo  2004-10-07 5:31:28 PM||   2004-10-07 5:31:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 In what languages, other than German, does the sound of v mutate into f? Just curious.
Posted by jules 187 2004-10-07 5:53:22 PM||   2004-10-07 5:53:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Peoples Liberation Front of Palestine...

Really? Recipients of oil vouchers? Wonder how they finagled that????
Posted by jules 187 2004-10-07 5:55:39 PM||   2004-10-07 5:55:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Word on the street is you can pay France off but it doesn't do any good; just cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-07 7:56:21 PM||   2004-10-07 7:56:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Jules, Saddam Hussein had some pet Paletinian terrorist groups bivouacked in Baghdad up until the very end. Perhaps this is how he supported them? I'm sure that none of them had, y'know, paying jobs.
Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-07 10:19:46 PM||   2004-10-07 10:19:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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