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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA new tidbit to consider re: Kelley twins and Iraq
Apparently, the name Khawam (their maiden name) is an Iraqi name -- the name of a very powerful tribe that controlled all of the commercial interests under Saddam. Here's a blog post that is being posted in many places on the Internet -- I found it first on freerepublic but saw it many other places on google.
SADDAM APPARENTLY HAD A KEY ASSOCIATE NAMED KHAWAM WHO ARRANGED MOST OF THE COMMERCIAL DEALS DURING SADDAM'S REIGN OF TERROR.
IRAQIS dare not utter the sisters' names. But through their marriages, the Al-Khawam women delivered the keys of the vaults of Baghdad for their four businessman brothers.
This wealthy quartet was virtually unknown beyond Iraq and the Middle East until late in October, when a global corruption report revealed their business empire as a vital conduit for huge kickbacks to Saddam Hussein - including $US221.7 million ($300 million) from the Australian Wheat Board.
As Shiites, they came from the wrong side of the track in Saddam's Sunni-dominated regime.
But they won pole position in the rigidly regimented Iraqi economy by signing over half the shares in a string of companies - they would put up all the venture capital, but they delivered half the profits to the regime.
THESE IRAQI KHAWAM WOMEN DELIVERED THE DEALS. IS I9T JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT THE WOMEN AT THE CENTER OF THIS SCANDAL ARE ALSO KHAWAM WOMEN? AND THAT PETRAEU AND ALLEN HAVE BEEN INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN IRAQ?
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A new tidbit to consider re: Kelley twins and Iraq (Original Post)
grasswire
Nov 2012
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bayareamike
(602 posts)1. Wow, I have no idea
but these Khawam sisters are totally broke....not a very successful "business empire" if true.
MADem
(135,425 posts)2. They're Lebanese. And only one woman was named Kelley (her husband's name).
If you want conspiracy theories, you're better off constructing one that takes nationality/faith into account.
Something on these lines...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/13/1161265/-Jill-Kelley-Khawam-The-Lebanese-Mata-Hari
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3. Here's some more info
Natalie Khawam's Ex was...
Grayson Wolfe was once the Manager for PRivate Sector Development for the Coalition PRovisinal Authority in Iraq: http://www.akkadianpv.com/readsenior.php?id=5
Regarding Natalie's ex-husband's father: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021812982
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)4. Bugs Bunny elevator sketch: "Third floor: Ruling tribes of Iraq, Knights Templar, Tesla Coils"
Crazier by the minute!
PB
demhottie
(292 posts)5. "Pole position" ... tee hee