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Getting caught funneling money to Saddam Hussein is certainly bad for p.r. But beyond that, after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker issued a report last week on the private sector's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, it isn't yet clear what will happen to the firms that allegedly handed Saddam $1.8 billion under the table...
...Saddam get the cash? Starting in 2000, many buyers of Iraqi oil, often using middlemen, deposited a total of $229 million in illegal surcharges--of 10¢ to 30¢ per bbl.--into bank accounts controlled by the Iraqi government. Meanwhile, exporters of food, medicine and other items paid nearly $1.6 billion in kickbacks, often contracted as "inland transportation" or "after-sales service" fees...
...penned a thriller set in Japan that a critic praised for its "storytelling skill" and "conspiratorial murmurs." Then, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he earned the scorn of officials at the CIA and State Department for inserting unchecked, raw intelligence into speeches to vilify Saddam Hussein and boost the case for war. One hard-to-kill Libby favorite: the irresistible tale about how 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague five months before the hijackings. That red herring kept creeping back into Vice President Dick Cheney's speeches long...
...leave it in God's hands. My job requires me to defend any accused man, and I couldn't accept backing down now." KHAMEES HAMID AL-UBAIDI, one of the lawyers representing Saddam Hussein, on whether the recent murder of a lawyer for one of Hussein's co-defendants would make him consider quitting the case...
...noble?projecting America's commitment to democratic ideals?subsequent developments have proved the Washington strategists wrong. Once the immediate, specific objective has been achieved, it is time to get out, leaving it to Afghans and Iraqis to sort out their internal problems. Afghans without the Taliban and Iraqis without Saddam Hussein can rebuild their countries and manage themselves. Prolonging those missions weakens the most powerful nation on Earth. Vellore S. Thyagarajan Madras, India...