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