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Before, during and after the war in Iraq, the Australian Wheat Board was selling tonnes of wheat to Iraq. But before the war it was selling wheat while paying bribes to Saddam to get the gig, contrary to the letter of UN sanctions. Of course, the UN authorities alerted ASIO, which unlike the WMDs fictional double-cross set-up, got the right info on the AWB deception. But, according to our previous government, the boffins at ASIO decided to say NOFIN'...
So Howard, and his mob of minions, could claim they KNEW NOFIN!... So they say... There was NO inquiry about what the government knew, what it was hidding and what it fudged, but there was an inquiry that oxenerated AWB for "inavertently" paying moneys into Saddam's coffers. Of course the Cole inquiry, set up by the former government — Howard and his lying mob — was restricted in its terms of reference to do a short tap dance... Meanwhile Pete degreed that kickbacls were tax deductible...
But now we know (we knew back then but the official stamp was smelling of Johnnee's dirty hand) the Cole was a farce set up to whitewash the whole affair into the glorious pits of history...
An AWB exec has admitted they knew they were paying bribes to Saddam...
ON this site of course we exposed as much as possible the deed AWB did not admit to until very recently...
Here it is, as a review in toons:
more toons coming as comments...
- By Gus Leonisky at 11 Feb 2010 - 8:52pm
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from The Age, 2006
In an act that Mr Cole said revealed a "thoroughly disreputable" character, Mr Davidson Kelly, 61, enlisted AWB to help convince Iraq to repay the cost of a 20,000-tonne wheat shipment BHP sent as a gift to Saddam Hussein's regime in 1996. AWB did this by inflating the price of UN wheat contracts to include the amount and paid it — minus a $500,000 fee — to Tigris in breach of international sanctions.
It is this swindle that could force Mr Davidson Kelly from his heritage estate known as "Little Boarhunt" in the pleasant Hampshire village of Liphook, about 80 kilometres south of London, and be extradited to Melbourne to face possible criminal charges. Mr Cole has recommended that Mr Davidson Kelly and 11 former AWB executives be investigated by a police taskforce for offences under Victorian and Commonwealth laws.
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Ft Lauderdale, Florida 1/30/2010 06:30 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Range Energy Resources Inc. (CNSX: RGO) has appointed Mr. Norman Davidson Kelly to Board of Directors. He was a Director and CEO of Range Oil & Gas Inc., the company's, recently amalgamated, wholly owned subsidiary.
Mr. Davidson Kelly brings a background with over 30 years in the petroleum business to the company's Board. From 1995-2000, he was on the executive committee of BHP Petroleum. Mr. Davidson Kelly has also agreement to act as the President of the company. Mr. Donald R. Sheldon will step down as President but continue acting as CEO and director for the company.
Range Energy Resources Inc, is a development-stage company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and gas resource properties.
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meanwhile:
Business as usual for Iraq kickbacks linchpin
NOW that AWB has, as its chairman said, ''put behind it'' the Iraq kickbacks scandal by settling a $39.5 million shareholder class action, you might ask whatever happened to Norman Davidson Kelly.
The elusive British go-between and former senior BHP executive, branded a ''thoroughly disreputable man with no commercial morality'' by Commissioner Terence Cole, QC, is being paid $C8000 ($8560) a month - or $C96,000 plus a swag of share-options - in his new role as the president of Canadian oil stock Range Energy Resources Inc.
On January 28, Mr Davidson Kelly swapped seats at the top of Range's boardroom table with Donald Sheldon, who remains chief executive of the speculative oil exploration group.
With its share price about C24.5 cents, Range Energy has a market capitalisation of less than $C40 million. Its latest monthly report noted Mr Davidson Kelly was awarded 2 million options in January, which are exercisable at 30 cents any time over the next five years.
The company's registered office is at the swank end of West Hastings Street in Vancouver. Its near-term hopes, however, are pinned to a problematic oil exploration block at the edge of a salt basin in the Dhofar region of southern Oman and to some sandy tracts known as the Khalakan Block in northern Iraq.
Iraq is familiar stomping ground for Mr Davidson Kelly. Indeed in May 2007, when he joined the board of Range Oil & Gas (which recently amalgamated with its parent company), Mr Sheldon trumpeted his newfound colleague as ''largely responsible for establishing BHP Petroleum's position in the Middle East and in particular Iran and Iraq''.
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Mr Davidson Kelly had falsely represented to AWB executives that Iraq owed millions of dollars to BHP for a wheat shipment the resources group had sent to Saddam Hussein's regime in 1996, and he told them BHP had kindly assigned the recovery of that ''debt'' to him. In fact there was no such debt.
AWB executives, with Iraq's knowledge, helpfully inflated by $US8 million the price of two contracts of wheat the Australian company exported to Iraq. And when the company was reimbursed from the UN's oil-for-food program in late 2004, it carved out Mr Davidson Kelly's millions and deposited them in the Gibraltar bank account of his company, Tigris Petroleum Corporation. Along the way, AWB pocketed more than $US1 million for itself.
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an offer he did refuse?...
THE man who led the Australian Federal Police investigation into the AWB oil-for-food scandal has alleged he was offered a promotion in return for shutting down the probe.In an explosive statement lodged in the Federal Court, former AFP agent Ross Fusca said another senior officer had told him that if he could ''make the oil-for-food taskforce go away, he would be appointed as next co-ordinator''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/top-job-offered-to-end-probe-20120606-1zwrh.html#ixzz20pCA7rZv