Oil-for-Food scandal may really hit the fan now.
An Iraqi official said today there was a list of cash bribes made by Saddam Hussein's government to journalists, politicians and groups in connection with the US$67 billion ($108.92 billion) UN-run oil-for-food programme.
Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi Governing Council, said Iraqi officials combing Saddam's files had not decided whether to release the list as part of a burgeoning scandal over the defunct programme.
"We have a list of cash paid to journalists, personalities, groups and parties," Talabani told a news conference after conferring with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan over an Iraqi interim government.
A separate, previously released list contains the names of more than 250 individuals, business, politicians and other groups alleged to have received vouchers for oil they could sell.
"Journalists, personalities, groups and parties?" This should be extremely informative. It would be nice to know which anti-war people were being paid to have that opinion.
No evidence of this yet, but if A.N.S.W.E.R. wasn't taking Saddam's money, at least indirectly, I'll eat my hat.