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Iraq to Supply Jordan with Oil at Preferential Prices
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=142&newsid=75384&ch=029 October 2005 | 11:08 | FOCUS News Agency
Baghdad/Amman. Iraq made a deal with Jordan to supply with the necessary quantities of oil and oil products at preferential prices, the Prime Minister of Jordan Andan Badran reported, cited by the Iraqi information agency INA.
The Prime Minister added that soon there would be a meeting between Iraqi Oil Minister and his Jordanian colleague. The Ministers plan to discuss the details of the agreement, which is the first agreement made after the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the agency added.
The official visit of the Iraqi Prime Minister in Amman ended yesterday. Andan Badran stated that Jordan would always gives its support to Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Jaafari stated that Iraq would continue to develop its relations between the two countries in economic and political plan.
Texas oil trader charged in U.N. oil-for-food scandal Oscar Wyatt Jr. faces jail, up to $1 million in fines for allegedly paying kickbacks to Saddam
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/news/ci_3141960Article Last Updated: 10/22/2005 07:08:16 AM
Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., the flamboyant Texas oil trader who flaunted his close ties to the regime of Saddam Hussein, was indicted Friday in federal court in New York on charges that he paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to the regime to sell Iraqi oil under a U.N. program.
The indictment says that Wyatt was informed by Iraqi officials sometime in the fall of 2000 that he and other traders would have to begin paying secret surcharges to continue to be granted the right to sell Iraqi oil under the U.N. oil-for-food program. In fax messages and telephone calls over the next two years, the indictment says, Wyatt arranged for the secret payments to be made through Swiss intermediaries and overseas companies that he set up. The money, the indictment says, was deposited in Iraqi government accounts in a bank in Jordan.
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The charges describe at least $3.2 million in back door payments Wyatt and his companies are accused of making from 2000 to 2002 to Iraqi government accounts in the Jordan National Bank in Amman.
The indictment says that Wyatt's representatives were informed by Iraqi officials in a meeting in Vienna in the fall of 2000 that he would have to begin paying a surcharge directly to the Iraqi government to continue to receive allotments of oil to sell. But, it says, Wyatt was not dissuaded. He arranged to make the illegal payments through foreign corporations he set up and through a Swiss energy trading consulting company, Sarenco S.A. The company was operated by two Swiss citizens, Catalina del Socorro Miguel Fuentes and Mohammed Saidji. Both along with their company were also named in Friday's indictment.
Three Iraqi oil officials killed in Amman''s attacks
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=786221 BAGHDAD, Nov 11 (KUNA) -- Three Iraqi oil experts were killed in the bomb attacks against three five-star hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman, two days ago, oil minister Ibrahim Bahr Al-Uloom said Friday.
Speaking to reporters in Najaf, Al-Uloom identified the experts as Habib Al-Shammari, Mohsen Al-Fadhl and Forat Abdussaheb.
The director of refineries in central Iraq Abdulqader Sa'b was seriously injured in the bomb attacks, he added.
Other interesting tidbits:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/10/jordan.blasts/index.htmlOther government officials were less fortunate, including Maj. Gen. Bashir Nafeh, head of Palestinian military intelligence, and Jihad Fattouh, the brother of the Palestinian parliament speaker, said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. The two were on their way back from Cairo, Egypt, he said.
Should I be :scared: or is my :tinfoilhat: on too tight?
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