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A French bank may have repeatedly violated US money-laundering laws, letting Saddam Hussein rip off the multibillion-dollar UN oil-for-food program, a House investigator said yesterday.
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The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear ...
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Saddam Hussein made $11 billion in illegal income and eroded the world's toughest economic embargo during his final years as Iraq's leader through shrewd schemes to secretly buy off dozens of countries, top foreign officials and major international figures,  said a new report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector released yesterday.
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1500CET--The Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi&#39;s participation in the EU Summit entered its second day which was dominated by the Iraq issue as the
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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Dramatic new details of France&#39;s secret dealings with Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime have emerged as part of a fresh corruption investigation into alleged illicit oil deals.
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Reply by M. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister, to a question in the National Assembly.
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Saddam Hussein was prepared to take $1  billion and go into exile before the Iraq war, according to a  transcript of talks between U.S. President George W. Bush and  an ally, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday.
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Reports that Saddam Hussein's former top aide Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is in custody prove unfounded.
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There&#39;s speculation some of the former leader&#39;s top aides, to be tried first, will testify against him. BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein met a defence lawyer yesterday for the first time since his capture a year
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Sull&#39;Iraq piÃ¹ s&#39;indaga meno le motivazioni per la guerra stanno in piedi. A smontare una volta per tutte il caso contro Saddam Hussein costruito dall&#39;amministrazione Bush sono due distinti rapporti governativi pubblicati ieri.
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9 September 2004 -- Iraqi President Ghazi Ajil al-Yawir met today with German leaders and renewed a call for Iraq&#39;s foreign debt to be forgiven.
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The Paris Club of creditor nations on Saturday discussed a plan to write off about 80 percent of Iraq&#39;s debts. According to The AP, US Treasury Secretary John Snow and German Finance Minister Hans Eichel concluded
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Iraq was scrambling to confirm on  Monday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the  run had been captured, after a day of government confusion with  top officials making contradictory statements.  Iraq's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Izzat Ibrahim  al-Douri, who was sixth on a U.S. list of the 55 most wanted  members of Saddam's regime and had a $10 million price on his  head, had been captured in Saddam's power base of Tikrit.
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As a result of talks the Paris Club has arrived at a consolidated decision to write off 80 per cent of Iraq&#39;s debt, Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin told journalists on Sunday [21 November].
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A year ago Monday, Saddam Hussein was pulled out of a spider hole in Iraq and hustled off to a secret location. Since then, the former Iraqi leader has undergone a hernia operation, taken
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Iraq and the United States hailed as &quot;historic&quot; an agreement by a group of creditor nations to write off billions of dollars of debt inherited from the former regime of Saddam Hussein.