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Seems like all these world leaders that want to fight wars in the oil countries have some type of connection to oil- or corporate gain- from those same involved countries.... :???: And as usual when caught/revealed say they won't take the profit from the deal they got caught on-- and that makes everything just hunky dorry :roll: .... Kind of leaves a smell....
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Baker accused of skirting
U.S. sanctions on Saddam
Businessman charges ex-secretary of state
used middleman to 'sell out' Israel for profit
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Posted: December 18, 2006
5:00 p.m. Eastern
James Baker
RAMAT HASHARON, Israel – The law firm at which former Secretary of State James Baker is a senior partner used an Israeli middleman to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iraq and push through a multimillion-dollar collection effort involving the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to a businessman here who said he mediated the deal.
Nir Gouaz, president of Caesar Global Securities in Israel, told WND that Baker's firm, Houston-based Baker Botts, made about $30 million collecting funds owed to a South Korean company by the Iraqi government at the peak of American sanctions imposed against Baghdad.
He claimed Baker was directly involved in the deal.
Baker has publicly brushed aside the criticism, saying he has agreed to forego earnings from clients with obvious connections to the Iraqi debt.