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Saddam launched the scheme after he seized power in 1979, Kroll and other investigators say. Key figures in the family-run scam allegedly included Saddam's half brother Barzan al-Takriti, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, and Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel, Iraq's Minister for Oil and Industry. Probers say the conspirators siphoned off 5% of the $200 billion that Iraq accumulated in oil revenues during the past decade. The group also reportedly demanded a 2.5% kickback from Japanese firms that did business in Iraq, and even skimmed off money from contracts between...
...have been an Iraqi judgment at the meeting itself that made war inescapable. Throughout the talks Saddam's half-brother Barzan Tikriti had sat on Aziz's right, closely scrutinizing the American team. Soon after the session ended, Barzan called Baghdad. The Americans don't want to fight, he told Saddam. They want to talk their way out. They are weak...
...clue from Geneva last week suggested that Saddam still needed a good deal of persuading. According to an intelligence service friendly to the U.S., Barzan Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother and the member of Aziz's delegation closest to the President, pronounced himself unconvinced by Baker's hard line. If Saddam believes his relative, he will see no urgency in accepting any proposal that leaves him with less than he started with, which is all of Kuwait...
...Iraqi army. General Barzani has begged the International Red Cross to propose a one-day truce to remove these decomposing bodies, for the health of the civilian population is endangered." Radio Baghdad told it another way. "The Kurdish rebels," it said, "are collapsing. Sixty rebels were killed in the Barzan area, 75 in Khorman, 80 in Korah and 20 in Koti. The insurgents were so exhausted that they asked for a truce on the pretext of removing dead bodies." But discounting the conflicting claims, it still seemed to have been a major military victory for the Kurds...
...life fighting for independence. After World War II, with Russian backing, Barzani became military boss of the Soviet-inspired Kurdish People's Republic in Iran and, when it collapsed, was for twelve years in exile in the Soviet Union. The younger brother of the ruling sheik of the Barzan tribe, Barzani denies he is a Communist, but echoes other Kurdish leaders who say that if war breaks out again the Kurds will "accept all the help we can get from anyone"-Russians included...