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| | Middle East Report Online: Scandals of Oil for Food , by Joy Gordon |
 | | But Oil for Food contracts were not signed under normal market conditions. | | | The US also filed no objection to the oil trade between Iraq and Jordan that took place throughout the history of the sanctions. | | | If Sevan did in fact accept these oil certificates, he would indeed be guilty of an egregious form of corruption. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Oil-for-Food Programme |
| | These contracts for Iraqi oil could then be sold on the open world market and the seller was allowed to keep a transaction fee, said to be between 0.15 and $0.50 $/barrel (0.94 and 3.14 $/m³) of oil sold. | | | However, the Iraqi government negotiated contracts directly with purchasers of Iraqi oil and suppliers of commodities, which may have been one important factor that allowed Iraq to levy illegal surcharges and commissions. | | | After an initial refusal, Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in May 1996 for arrangements for the implementation of that resolution to be taken. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/O/OI/OIL/Oil-for-Food_Programme
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| | Iraq Country Analysis Brief |
| | In mid-December 2002, the Iraqi Oil Ministry had announced that it was severing its contract with the Lukoil consortium on West Qurna due to "fail[ure] to comply" with contract stipulations. | | | On September 22, 2004, the Iraqi Oil Ministry signed a $15 million contract with Sinopec to build eight oil storage tanks, with a total capacity of 350,000 barrels, on the Faw Peninsula in southern Iraq. | | | In order to better understand the state of the Kirkuk reservoir, a contract was signed in early 2005 for Exploration Consultants Ltd. and Shell to carry out an integrated study on Kirkuk, with work scheduled to be completed by early 2006. |
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| | Oil-for-Food Programme - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council |
| | Under its rules, the UN controlled all revenues from Iraq's oil sales and contracts within the programme were subject to oversight. | | | Meanwhile, Washington violated UN oil sanctions and turned a blind eye to illegal oil smuggling to Jordan "in recognition of its national interests." | | | The adoption of Resolution 1483 in May 2003 put an end to sanctions and foresaw the phasing out of the programme over 6 months and the gradual transfer of its administration to the US-UK authorities in Iraq. |
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| | ifeminists.com > editorial > No Oil for Food |
| | Thus, in the coming dispute between the U.S. and U.N., the Security Council will almost certainly advocate what France's Jean-Marc de La Sabliere calls "transparency in the sale of oil and awarding of contracts," which will be a condition for lifting sanctions and oil-for-food. | | | Members of the Security Council do not want to lose their oil contracts. | | | France, Russia and Syria received oil contracts on extremely favorable terms. |
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| | The Oil-for-Food Scandal - What happened, and who's to blame. By Michael Crowley |
| | And he's put off Coleman and others by not granting Senate investigators full access to U.N. documents and personnel. | | | Support for the sanctions gradually eroded, and in 1996 the United Nations created the oil-for-food program, through which Iraq could resume oil sales to pay for humanitarian goods such as food and medicine. | | | Meanwhile, the United States more or less openly condoned Saddam's multibillion-dollar illegal oil trade with American allies such as Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2111195
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| | Canola Oil - How Toxic Is It? |
| | Canola oil that is certified organic is from non-genetically altered seed. | | | In particular, the level of erucic acid in the oil (and glucosinolates in the meal) conformed to the compliance requirements for certification as canola. | | | The Italian government passed a law that olive oil must be protected from heat and high pressure. |
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| | Iraq's Oil-For-Food Program -- Much Worse Than We Thought |
| | Under this arrangement, the UN was not to examine the contracts for Iraqi oil except between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the first purchaser. | | | Until recently, the UN maintained that it had no idea that the oil was being sold at significant discounts in many cases, or that the middlemen were adding surcharges to the contracts awarded them by Saddam. | | | In documents released earlier this year, there are four pages of entries detailing voucher recipients in Russia that total over one BILLION barrels of crude. |
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| | Welcome to the CPA Oil for Food Transition Page |
| | Removed from List of Amendable OFF Contracts as of 21 November 03 | | | , the CPA has worked with the Iraqi ministries to impart all business procedures related to the processing of Oil for Food contracts. | | | Please direct any inquiries to the appropriate, specific Iraqi ministry your contract is supporting. |
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| | Friends of Saddam |
| | Being American in T.O. May 9 - You are probably already aware that a U.S. court granted a temporary inj... | | | Craig - Good point Robert,but when Galloway sued in the courts in Great Britain and won!Colman realy did mak... | | | I got no dirty oil, says Galloway - May 12 |
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| | Olive oil - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more |
| | The United States is not a member of the IOOC, and the United States Department of Agriculture does not legally recognize its classifications (such as extra-virgin olive oil). | | | The California Olive Oil Council, a private US trade group, is petitioning the Department to adopt terminology and practices that shadow the IOOC's rules. | | | Olive oil was a central product of the Minoan civilization, where it is thought to have represented wealth. |
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| | The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen |
| | Likewise, using its veto-wielding powers on the 661 Committee, set up in 1990 to oversee economic sanctions against Iraq, the United States was able to block billions of dollars of humanitarian goods legitimately bought by Iraq under the provisions of the oil-for-food agreement. | | | It has been estimated that 80 per cent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under "oil for food" ended up in the United States. | | | Through various control mechanisms, the United States and Great Britain were able to turn on and off the flow of oil as they saw best. |
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| | t r u t h o u t - Probe into Iraq's Oil-for-Food Program to Reach White House |
| | Democrats said Congress needed to know what happened to oil revenue while the United States managed it from May 2003 to June 2004. | | | Iraqi oil revenues have been allocated in one way or another for humanitarian purposes since the United Nations created the nation's oil-for-food program in 1996, and they've been dogged by mishandling for just as long. | | | The decision means the subcommittee also will scrutinize the activities of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which governed Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004. |
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100704E.shtml
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| | OpinionJournal - Featured Article |
| | He confirmed that AMEP purchased oil from Iraq through Oil-for-Food, beginning around 1998, and said he made semi-annual trips to Baghdad to meet SOMO officials to keep contracts coming. | | | According to Yves Genier, a Swiss journalist from the newspaper l'Agefi who has been looking into Cotecna's role here, the prosecutor's case was dropped for lack of compelling public interest. | | | Jimenez was a minority partner in Compagnie Francaise Internationale de Distribution, which was controlled by Mr. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004801
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| | Oil-for-Food Program |
| | In May 2002, the United States led an initiative to streamline UN procedures for the export of goods into Iraq under the Program. | | | These resolutions eased sanctions on the sale of oil, imposed in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, by allowing Iraq to sell a certain amount of oil and use proceeds to meet the humanitarian needs of its people. | | | Oil-for-Food has steadily expanded over the years, lifting the limit on the amount of oil that could be sold and expanding the range of goods that can be purchased. |
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| | The U.N. Oil for Food scandal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED |
| | Instead, vouchers were doled out as gifts or as payment for goods imported into the country in violation of U.N. sanctions. | | | The intent of the program was to sell Iraqi oil to pay for food and medicine for the Iraqi people, who were suffering due to sanctions. | | | The U.N. Oil for Food scandal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED March 22, 2004 |
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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040321-101405-2593r.htm
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| | Oil-for-Food: Facts |
| | Fact: The UN had neither the authority nor the resources to prevent smuggling. | | | Specifically, it was the role of the Security Council's 661 Committee to monitor all contracts awarded under the OFFP (all members of the UN Security Council, including the U.S., were members of the 661 Committee). | | | The responsibility for preventing smuggling into and from Iraq rested with Member States, specifically with the Multinational Interception Force, mandated by the Security Council in 1991 and led by and predominantly made up of the Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy. |
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| | blogirish The Irish Oil for Food Scandal |
| | Mr Tahir told the Guardian that he got the rights to 3m barrels of oil, for which the western oil majors, "Texaco, BP, Shell and Chevron", paid him commission of up to 10 cents a barrel: a sum approaching £200,000. | | | Bula Resources is now in liquidation by the High Court (Irish Times March 16, 2004) and its 43,000 shareholders are most worried about recouping a €1.5 million deposit paid by the company as part of a deal involving an entity in Bahrain. | | | The PR firm's fees for the anti-sanctions campaign were paid by Bula Resources. |
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http://www.blog-irish.com/oilfood.htm
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| | Iraq Revenue Watch: Monitoring Iraq Reconstruction Funds, Contracts, Oil |
| | Iraq Revenue Watch: Monitoring Iraq Reconstruction Funds, Contracts, Oil | | | The event, "Iraqi Oil Wealth: Issues of Governance and Development," is part of the Open Society Institute's ongoing effort to support informed and inclusive public policy debate in Iraq, and to assist Iraqis in holding all stakeholders to account in promoting an open, peaceful, and prosperous Iraq. | | | Report: Protecting the Future: Constitutional Safeguards for Iraq's Oil Revenues |
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| | UN Office of the Iraq Program - Oil for Food: About the Program |
| | The balance included 25% for a Compensation Fund for war reparation payments; 2.2% for United Nations administrative and operational costs; and 0.8% for the weapons inspection programme. | | | Resolution 986: On 14 April 1995, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council adopted resolution 986, establishing the "oil-for-food" programme, providing Iraq with another opportunity to sell oil to finance the purchase of humanitarian goods, and various mandated United Nations activities concerning Iraq. | | | Agreement: Although established in April 1995, the implementation of the programme started only in December 1996, after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United Nations and the Government of Iraq on 20 May 1996 (S/1996/356). |
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| | AllRefer.com - olive oil (Food And Cooking) - Encyclopedia |
| | Olive oil is now the third best-selling cooking oil in the United States. | | | Olive oil of good quality is ready to use, without further refinement. | | | Olive oil is also a good source of vitamin E, which is thought to help protect humans against cancer and heart disease. |
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| | Claudia Rosett on Oil-for-Food & Terrorism on National Review Online |
| | One was the U.N. decision to allow Saddam to choose his own buyers of oil and suppliers of goods — an arrangement that Annan himself helped set up during negotiations in Baghdad in the mid-1990s, shortly before he was promoted to Secretary-General. | | | The stated aim of the program, which ran from 1996-2003, was to reduce the squeeze of sanctions on ordinary Iraqis by allowing Saddam to sell oil strictly to buy food and other relief supplies. | | | Even the Iraqi people were denied access to the most basic information about the deals that were in theory being done in their name. |
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| | It is also great as a delicious coating when baking fish or fowl. | | | This fine Extra Virgin Olive Oil is guaranteed and controlled under The D.O.P. seal. | | | Secondly, although the strictest legislation allows a maximum acidity of 1% in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, the maximum acidity allowed by Carli in its olive oil is 0.3%. |
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| | USATODAY.com - U.S. weapons report details corruption of oil-for-food program |
| | And, in addition to the food purchases, over time his government found several ways of using oil-for-food to raise illicit funds to further evade the embargo. | | | For example, oil sold under U.N. auspices was processed by major oil companies that do business all over the world, including in the USA. | | | Most of it, about $7.5 billion, was from selling oil to neighboring countries, sometimes with tacit U.N. approval. |
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| | Unlike other oils used for deep-frying it is reusable because it remains stable and does not form toxic trans-fatty acids. | | | As agricultural development of the state began, commercial olive orchards were planted, the nursery stock for which was grown from cuttings secured from the various missions. | | | By separating the fruit of the olive from the pit before gently pressing, a delicious and surprsingly sweet olive oil is produced. |
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| | United Nations: Oil-for-Food Fiasco? - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com |
| | Wyatt told NEWSWEEK that his company did buy oil from Saddam but that he never did so personally, and that his company's dealings all complied with U.N. rules. | | | But an uncensored copy of the Duelfer report obtained by NEWSWEEK indicates Houston oil mogul Oscar Wyatt got oil allocations from Saddam which could have earned him and Coastal Corp.—a company he founded and ran until 2000—profits of more than $22 million. | | | Iraqi documents appended to the report Duelfer published last week identify figures in Russia, France and the Vatican as alleged recipients of oil deals personally approved by Saddam Hussein. |
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| | Chalabi Raid Complicates Oil-For-Food Probe - Forbes.com |
| | Revenues were held in an escrow account run by BNP Paribas for the U.N. The oil-for-food program became a lucrative source of contracts for Russian and French oil companies, including Lukoil and Total (nyse: TOT - news - people), according to congressional testimony by Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation. | | | KPMG began investigating in February 2004 on behalf of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, the Central Bank of Iraq, the Finance and the Trade Ministry and the State Oil Marketing Association. | | | During the program established by the United Nations Security Council in 1995, the U.N. reportedly oversaw a flow of funds totaling $15 billion a year. |
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| | From The Wilderness Publications Home Page |
| | Due to his success in bringing Peak Oil and gas issues to the public consciousness and as a successful novelist, FTW can no longer afford to pay Dale what he is worth on the open market and what he can command in other spheres. | | | Please join our online campaign to demand U.S. Hands Off Venezuela by sending emails to President Bush, your senators, your congressperson, and key congressional leaders telling them you want the U.S., its military and the C.I.A. to leave Venezuela alone! | | | Lawsuit filed against Rumsfeld: Cruel Confinement of 'Enemy Combatant' in the United States - by Human Rights Watch (read this story) |
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| | UN Office of the Iraq Program - Oil-for-Food |
| | The balance went to: Gulf War reparations through a Compensation Fund (25 per cent since December 2000); UN administrative and operational costs for the programme (2.2 per cent) and costs for the weapons inspection programme (0.8 per cent). | | | About $31 billion worth of humanitarian supplies and equipment were delivered to Iraq under the Oil-for-Food Programme between 20 March 1997 and 21 November 2003, including $1.6 billion worth of oil industry spare parts and equipment. | | | Additional goods and supplies from the Programme's multi billion dollar humanitarian pipeline are being delivered on a priority basis in consultation with the Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraqi representatives and UN agencies and programmes. |
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| | An Oil-for-Food Connection? |
| | Yet, just two years later, bin Laden was back on his feet, feeling strong enough to issue a public declaration of war on America. | | | His family inheritance was gone, his allowance had been cut off, and Sudan had confiscated his local assets. | | | He went to Afghanistan, arriving there pretty much bankrupt, according to the 9/11 Commission report. |
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| | Nut of the Month Club - May is Cashew Month |
| | The nut is used as a food, as a source of food oil, as a flavoring. | | | The tree yields a gum that is the basis of a special varnish used to protect books and woodwork from insect damage. | | | The outer covering of the fruit contains an extremely caustic oil that must be burned off before the nut can be touched. |
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| | R I S Q World News Headlines |
| | US bars access to oil ministry, power plant | | | US Says Halliburton Deal Includes Operating Iraq Oil Fields; Contract Much Larger Than Previously Known | | | Hundreds of thousands of Shias gather in Karbala |
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