UN, Saddam, Chirac, Galloway Pascua & Related

Saddam spies 'offered to help Chirac get re-elected' By Francis Harris in Washington, Henry Samuel in Paris and David Rennie in Brussels, May 14, 05

Saddam Hussein's spies planned a wide-ranging scheme to bribe members of the French political elite in the run-up to the Anglo-American invasion, including an offer to help fund President Jacques Chirac's 2002 re-election campaign.

That bid failed, according to Iraqi secret service papers seen by The Daily Telegraph, when Mr Chirac's aides allegedly said they did not need the cash.

[. . . . ] The spies claimed that Mrs Bachelot offered an assurance that France would veto any American proposal to invade Iraq at the UN Security Council and would work to have UN-approved sanctions against Saddam lifted. [. . . . ]

Search: between its representative in Paris and Roselyne Bachelot , a who's who , claimed that Mr Chirac's team had turned down




Oil-for-food: Former French Interior Minister Pascua & UK Labour MP George Galloway

Oil-for-food probe fingers 2 politicians 12 May 2005, CBC

UNITED NATIONS - Evidence is mounting that high-profile politicians from France and Britain benefited from the United Nations oil-for-food program, says a U.S. Senate committee looking into the scandal.

The politicians – the former interior minister of France, Charles Pasqua, and British member of Parliament George Galloway – denied the accusations Thursday. They also said the committee has given them no chance to participate in the process of finding out what went wrong with the program. [. . . . ]

* A contention by former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan that Saddam personally approved allocating 11 million barrels of oil to Pasqua for resale from 1999 to 2000 "because of his opinions about Iraq."

* An allegation that an aide to Pasqua refused to give Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization a written request that oil contracts be handled through a Swiss company called Genmar, saying such a letter could lead to "political scandals" in France. [. . . . ]

"Honour" . . . again.