Word: oiled
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...Canada, and various import licenses in Mexico. By rapidly widening the consumer market, the pact aims to spur capital investment across all three jurisdictions. This would be a striking change for Mexico, which has long banned outside ownership of strategic sectors like farm and border lands and oil...
...When oil profits ebbed in the early '80s, Abedi and the bank turned increasingly to weapons dealing, drug-money laundering and capital flight to keep operations afloat. The bank also became enmeshed in intelligence operations with several nations, including the U.S., which effectively shielded Abedi from unwelcome scrutiny as he perfected bribery and extortion as business tools. B.C.C.I. thereafter grew faster than ever...
...debilitating international embargo and the presence of the U.N. arms inspectors. He has defied demands for information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, refused to renew an agreement allowing relief workers to operate in Iraq, spurned a U.N. deal that would allow him to sell $1.6 billion in oil to finance food and humanitarian aid, and rejected a new U.N.-demarcated border with Kuwait. He has even stepped up operations against Shi'ite Muslim rebels in the south. In Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq, gun, grenade and car-bomb attacks have targeted U.N. guards, one of whom...
...Iraqi border. At the Jordanian customs post, the truck, sealed with a lock and a bit of wire, is not examined, the customs inspector stamps the false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons of U.N.-embargoed communications gear, construction parts, military equipment and computers enter Iraq from Jordan to help prop up Saddam Hussein's regime...
Coming the other way, legally, a half-mile-long column of oil tankers stream beneath a giant portrait of Saddam that marks an archway over the desert border. Each day they bring 50,000 bbl. of cut-rate fuel to Amman to sustain the stumbling economy of Jordan...