Aide says McDermott (D-WA-7) wasn't aware of Saddam link

Aide says McDermott wasn't aware of Saddam link

By Jim Brunner
Seattle Times staff reporter


HARLEY SOLTES / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Rep. Jim McDermott, at Westlake Mall in fall
2002, has returned a donation from a businessman
with ties to Saddam Hussein.

Congressman Jim McDermott this week returned a $5,000 contribution made to his legal defense fund by an Iraqi-American businessman who has admitted to financial ties with Saddam Hussein's regime.

Shakir al-Khafaji, a Detroit-area businessman who had been active in the anti-Iraq-war movement and who accompanied McDermott, D-Seattle, on his highly publicized trip to Iraq in 2002, acknowledged to the Financial Times of London this week that he received lucrative vouchers for Iraqi oil from Saddam's government.

The oil-voucher story surfaced in January, when a Baghdad newspaper published what it said was an Iraqi government document naming 270 recipients of oil vouchers from around the world. Al-Khafaji was one of two Americans on the list, which included French, British and Russian political and business leaders and many prominent opponents of the war.

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Stronger connections are shown between the Bush family and the bin Laden's

those that was knocking one of my favorite cats.

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Al-Khafaji told the Financial Times that he sold the vouchers to an Italian executive who then resold them to a Houston oil-trading company. The newspaper estimated the deal was worth $1.1 million to al-Khafaji.
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Wouldn't that have been an illegal deal on the part of that company?

s_m

one represented by Baker, Botts...

Name me one slimy figure or crooked government James Baker isn't somehow involved with, either as legal representative or "family fixer."

Keeping thinking...

:freak:

I am tapped out of tolerance for these goons!!!

:shrug:

because of the Al Queda link?

since they were dealing with Saddam in 1998 in direct violation of the sanctions.

Look at this list.

http://www.brookesnews.com/040202saddamsbribes.html