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More OFF problems
    #5251613 - 02/01/06 03:37 PM (18 years, 16 hours ago)

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/01/31/afx2489952.html

SYDNEY (AFX) - Australia has confirmed it lobbied the US to drop an investigation into allegations that national wheat exporter AWB paid bribes to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Australia's ambassador to Washington met the chairman of a Senate committee in late 2004 and 'argued strongly' against plans to probe AWB, formerly the government-run Australian Wheat Board, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said, according to Agence France-Presse.

The government was worried that the inquiry into AWB's role in the UN oil-for-food scandal would be used by US wheat exporters to damage Australia's 2.3 bln usd wheat trade with Iraq, Downer said.

The planned probe was dropped after the Australian government's representations, through then-ambassador Michael Thawley, in his meeting with US Senator Norm Coleman.

Around the same time, Australian government officials raised Australia's diplomatic and military support for the US-led invasion of Iraq in a meeting with senate committee staff, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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It's a real pity that we don't investigate this portion of the OFF cesspool. The Aussie argument for us not to investigate is lame and it tells me that there is something there.

Nox


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