Article: Fed: Iraq to halt Australian wheat orders until AWB pays up


AAP General News (Australia)
11-12-2005
Fed: Iraq to halt Australian wheat orders until AWB pays up

SYDNEY, Nov 11 AAP - The Iraqi government has suspended future orders for Australian
wheat until the wheat exporter pays back money used as kickbacks for Saddam Hussein's
regime.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi said the former Australian Wheat Board (now
AWB) should pay the new Iraqi government compensation for the $290 million it sent to
a Jordanian trucking company which later turned out to be a front company for the dictator,
The Weekend Australian newspaper reports.

"I don't want to be specific but they should organise compensation, because that money
-- the $US220 million ...

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