Australian Wheat Board paid $290 million to Saddam Hussein

[WearyOne]

Australian Wheat Board paid the equivalent of more than $290 million to Saddam Hussein's regime.

Wheat industry outraged over Iraq kickbacks

Grain traders and growers are angry at confirmation that monopoly wheat exporter AWB was involved in corrupt payments during the oil-for-food program in Iraq.

A United Nations report has found more than 2,000 companies were involved in making kickback payments to the Iraqi government to secure oil and humanitarian contracts between 1996 and 2003.

AWB paid more than $290 million to a Jordanian trucking company, which ended up in the hands of the Iraqi Government, a transaction which the UN says should have been questioned.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1492959.htm

[xchrom]

1. lol -- who in bush's coalition of the willing wasn't

paying saddam for something?

[bemildred]

2. I'm sure Normie and Volcker will get right after them .... nt