US sabotaged Australian wheat deal in Iraq

At Last finally Australia is about to wake up, We are there fighting in Georgies filthy unalateral war and occupation, only to have a farmers innocent of any crime being stabbed in the back as usual by our good friends America. Welcome To Georgies Foreign Policy Australia, To bad you did not use your brains and understand what was happening 5 years earlier.

Report on the Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme (27 October 2005)

The Labyrinth: UN Scandal Has Deep Roots in Bush Family Corruption

Richard Baker
November 25, 2006

THE United States intervened to sabotage a huge wheat contract agreed upon by AWB and Iraq during a series of secret meetings in Cairo last year, less than two years after Australia joined America to topple Saddam Hussein.

Senior US officials in Baghdad complained to Iraqi Government ministers in January last year - 10 months before the United Nations exposed AWB's kickbacks to Saddam Hussein - after learning Australia had landed a $900 million wheat deal with Iraq.

Sources familiar with the AWB trip to Cairo last year said the US learnt of the deal after representatives from America's foreign agriculture service followed AWB executives around Cairo. In response to the US complaints, Iraq cancelled the AWB deal and called off a planned visit to Canberra by Iraq's then trade minister, Muhammed al-Jabouri, in February last year.

Details of the American's wheat intervention come as Commissioner Terence Cole, QC, handed his five-volume report into the Iraq wheat scandal to Governor-General Michael Jeffery at Admiralty House in Sydney yesterday.

The report is expected to say there was "no evidence" ministers or the department knew about AWB's corrupt payments to Saddam. The report will be made public early next week.

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