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American wheat farmers sue Australian AWB over Iraq scam

Australian Wheat Board (AWB) paid $220 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein; North American wheat farmers are suing AWB for $1billion; UK, US & Australia surely knew & betrayed their own & Coalition soldiers.

The illegal US$220 million Australian wheat sales kickbacks funding of the Saddam Hussein régime is a major Australian, UK and US scandal - it involved cheating US and Canadian farmers; robbing the UN Oil-for-Food funding program; depriving and killing up to 21,000 Iraqi infants; funding the post-invasion insurgency thereby killing and wounding US soldiers and countless thousands of Iraqis (according to staunchly pro-US Australian Opposition Leader Kim Beazley); and betraying American, Australian and Coalition soldiers in the field (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/6390/26/ ).

Australian, UK and US intelligence must have known of the kickbacks arrangements with Iraq (everyone else involved knew from the middle 1990s). According to the UN Volker report, the AWB scam was the biggest violation of the UN Oil for Food Program. The Australian Government still maintains that nobody told them (even though the Australian Cole Inquiry has revealed that over 2 dozen warning e-mails and cables were sent to officials of the Australian Government) (for more see: http://www.newsvine.com/awb ).