Saddam's cash may fund rebels
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041115-122230-2405r.htm

A Senate committee today will hear new details about an investigative team's suspicions that cash from kickbacks to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein - paid by companies doing business with his regime under the U.N. oil-for-food program - is funding the insurgency against U.S. forces there.
<snip>

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress' investigative arm, reported in March that the regime earned more than $4 billion in kickbacks from companies, which were forced to pay a 10 percent surcharge for the right to sell humanitarian goods such as medicine and infant formula in Iraq.

(see link above for full article)

Janice Reynolds

             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html