http://www.metafilter.com/tags/oilforfood Posts tagged with 'oilforfood' at MetaFilter. Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:11:19 -0800 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:11:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/48790/Kicking%2DBack It seems increasingly more likely that Saddam Hussein's regime was <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17856071-2,00.html">getting kickbacks</a> from the <a href="http://www.awb.com.au/growers/">Australian Wheat Board</a> and, worse still, the Australian Government <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17857429%255E2702,00.html">may have known about it</a>. This major scandal is causing big headaches for the Australian Government and is emerging as a diplomatic sore point between the US and one of its strongest Iraq War allies. The Australian Opposition is calling for the official inquiry into the matter, the Cole Inquiry, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1557923.htm">to be widened</a>, whilst in the US, <a href="http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060130/15/3yb5x.html">several US senators</a> including <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1560063.htm">Norm Coleman</a> and <a href="http://murray.senate.gov/news.cfm?id=214406">Patty Murray</a> are demanding answers whilst simultaneously calling for a ban on Australian wheat. [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48790 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:11:19 -0800 australia AWB Iraq oilforfood politics wheat Effigy2000 http://www.metafilter.com/38812/pimpinthe%2Dthird%2Dworld%2Daint%2Deasy <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6845383/site/newsweek">U.N. Oil for Food Program.</a> Former Bob Dole running mate, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21499.htm">Jack Kemp</a> was recently "quizzed" by the FBI about his involvement in the scandal. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38812 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:18:20 -0800 jackkemp oilforfood politics scandal un rocket_skates