October 23, 2005
Finally, A glimmer of a Saddam/911 link
Though many will discount the news as sourced from Fox, the fact is that the unraveling of the "Oil for Food" scandal at the UN was bound to turn up links of Saddam's money going to Al Qaida. One of the writers (Claudia Rosset) of the article below is beyond reproach regarding the UN scandal.
As I've pointed out on the radio show, In early 1996 bin Laden was broke, kicked out of Sudan, and hightailing it to Afghanistan. In late 1996, bin Laden was flush with cash, and declaring a holy war on the West.
An intervening event - The "Oil for Food" program starting at the UN. Anyway, it will soon be clear if I get to say "I told you so" - but the chances just went up markedly.
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U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda
New details of how dark the scandal could prove to be have emerged from the private sale of IHC on June 3, 2005, just as the procurement scandal was about to break. It now appears that while doing business with the U.N., IHC had links both to Saddam Hussein’s old sanctions-busting networks, and to a Liechtenstein-based businessman, Engelbert Schreiber, Jr., known among other things for his ties to a figure designated by the U.N. itself as a financier of Al Qaeda (search).Registered in New York State, with offices in New York City and Milan, IHC has been involved in possibly hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of business with the U.N. since the mid-1990s, serving both as a direct supplier and as a go-between for a wide variety of other contractors. This work has included IHC’s signing or helping to broker contracts for supplies ranging from portable generators to rations for U.N. peacekeeping troops in such trouble spots as West Africa and the Middle East.
IHC came under public scrutiny this summer, after FOX News broke the story on June 20 that IHC had maintained especially close ties with Alexander Yakovlev (search), a Russian official in the U.N. procurement department, who while handling an IHC contract with the U.N. had obtained a job for his son with the company, and had also been channeling funds to a secret offshore bank account.
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There is your link, lefties. It was always there, and we are just beginning to see the outcome of the "Oil for Food" money trail
Posted by Bruno Behrend at October 23, 2005 02:15 PM