Saddam Hussein used oil revenues for large public works
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“Saddam Hussein gebruikte de genationaliseerde olie-inkomsten van Irak om grootschalige openbare werken te financeren.”
Summary
Saddam Hussein diverted Iraq’s nationalized oil revenues primarily to enrich himself and his regime, exploiting programs like Oil‑for‑Food for personal and political gain. There is no credible evidence that those funds were used to finance large‑scale public works projects.
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- Saddam Hussein's Efforts to Circumvent Economic Sanctions
Saddam Hussein spends smuggled oil wealth on his lavish palaces and inner circle, rather than on the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.
- Saddam Hussein's Efforts to Circumvent Economic Sanctions (Text Only)
Saddam Hussein has illegally imported hundreds of millions of dollars in goods in violation of economic sanctions and outside of the UN's Oil-for-Food program.
- - HOW SADDAM HUSSEIN ABUSED THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM
The Oil-for-Food Program was intended to allow the Government of Iraq to provide for humanitarian aid and assistance for its people. Instead, under the Oil-for-Food Program, Saddam Hussein generated massive amounts of money that had one sole purpose--to keep him in power.
- how saddam hussein abused the united nations oil-for- ...
Hussein’s pockets, illustrating · the fraying of sanctions. The commitment from Syria was so firm · that President Assad stated it three times during the meeting, Sec- retary Powell said, that the Secretary said that he telephoned ... U.S. military finally cut off the illegal flow of oil from Iraq to Syria. Iraqi oil sales to Syria supplied Saddam Hussein with billions of
- - THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM: SADDAM HUSSEIN'S USE OF OIL ALLOCATIONS TO UNDERMINE SANCTIONS AND THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
The United Nations Oil-for-Food program was initiated to ease the suffering of the Iraqi people. As we have learned in recent months from various reports, this program became a mechanism for the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to siphon off billions of dollars in illicit revenues, money that rightfully should have gone to the citizens of Iraq.
- S.Hrg. 108-761 — HOW SADDAM HUSSEIN ABUSED THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The Oil-for-Food Program was intended ... for its people. Instead, under the Oil-for-Food Program, Saddam Hussein generated massive amounts of money that had one sole purpose--to keep him in power....
- Hussein's Regime Skimmed Billions From Aid Program - The New York Times
Saddam Hussein's government systematically extracted billions of dollars in kickbacks from companies participating in United Nations program under which Iraq was permitted to sell oil to buy food and other relief goods; Taha Yassin Ramadan, ...
- Saddam's Suicide Bomb Funds - CBS News
Investigators Say He Used Cash From U.N. Oil-For-Food Program
- CNN.com - Probe: $1.8B diverted to Hussein regime - Oct 27, 2005
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein manipulated the United Nations oil-for-food program so that his regime received $1.8 billion in illicit payments, a U.N.-backed independent report said Thursday.
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