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"The subcommittee concluded that Mr. Galloway was granted oil allocations as part of a complex series of oil transactions aimed at concealing the source of ill-gotten gain. (Last year, the CIA's Iraq Survey Group concluded that Saddam gave Mr. Galloway 20 million barrels of oil.)
"Galloway appeared to use a charity for children's leukemia to conceal payments associated with at least one such allocation ... according to senior officials [from Saddam's government], the oil allocations were granted by Iraq because of Galloway's support for the Hussein regime and his opposition to U.N. sanctions," the panel report said.
The report also raises serious questions about the conduct of Mr. Pasqua. It uncovered internal documents from the Iraqi Ministry of Oil suggesting that Mr. Pasqua received 11 million barrels of oil from the Ba'athist regime. Former aides to Saddam told the Senate subcommittee in interviews that former top Kremlin aide Alexander Voloshin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a Russian ultranationalist and an outspoken supporter of Saddam, also earned millions in oil deals.
Things are becoming increasingly uncomfortable for some of Saddam Hussein's staunchest supporters. "

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