SADDAM TURNED AID INTO BLOOD MONEY
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein used illegal spoils from the UN oil-for-food program to pay cash rewards to the families of Palestinian terrorist bombers, according to congressional investigators.
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major Australian wheat company paid more than $224 million in kickbacks and bribes to Saddam HusseinÂs government, according to a high-level commission investigating allegations of corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program.
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Increasing production and higher oil prices mean Iraq could see an influx of extra reconstruction money, a report says.
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Russia has agreed to write off $12bn (Â£6bn) of Iraqi debt built up by the Saddam Hussein regime.
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Putting Saddam Hussein on trial for war crimes is turning out to be a trial in itself, as escalating violence across Iraq makes preparations harder and riskier.
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A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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CAIRO : Toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is miserable sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity and has begged for mercy, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview.
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The US-led authority that ran Iraq after the war wasted millions of dollars, says a former official.
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At least $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds  that was given to Iraqi ministries by the former U.S.-led  authority there cannot be accounted for, according to a draft  U.S. audit set for release soon.
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The Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein issued millions of dollars in lucrative oil export vouchers to leading French, Russian and other foreign politicians as part of a concerted effort to win their assistance in lifting UN sanctions against Iraq, according to a CIA report made public here.
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Virtually without fanfare, the Bush administration has reprogrammed some $3.5 billion in aid funds to Iraq in ways that mark a fundamental shift in its strategy in
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The Bush administration asked Congress on Tuesday for permission to transfer nearly $3.5 billion from Iraqi water, sewer and electricity projects to pressing security, economic and electoral programs, acknowledging that increasing violence has forced a sharp shift in its rebuilding effort.
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WASHINGTON -- At least $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds given to Iraqi ministries by the former US-led authority there cannot be accounted for, according to a draft US audit set for release soon.
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Most of the money that Saddam  Hussein illicitly obtained by cheating on U.N. sanctions on  Iraq came from oil smuggling outside the U.N. oil-for-food  program, the head of an independent inquiry said on Tuesday.
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Tokyo, Oct. 13 (NNN): Iraq&#39;s deputy leader, Barham Saleh, on Wednesday urged donors to release the aid money they have pledged, saying it is the key to destroying terrorism in his troubled country.
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Vivid allegations of widespread corruption at the U.N. oil-for-food program by the top U.S. arms inspector have added credibility to accusations the United Nations looked the other way while Saddam Hussein's government skimmed billions of dollars and offered kickbacks to European and Arab countries and officials.
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Suitcases full of cash, secret bank accounts, covert operatives, corrupt politicians on the take. A report detailing alleged illicit U.N. oil-for-food deals with the former Iraq government paints a portrait of Saddam Hussein as an international gangster &#151; not a nuclear terrorist.