Article: Australian prime minister testifies at oil-for-food corruption

MERAIAH FOLEY, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-13-2006
Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia
Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday his senior advisers never told him about a string of warnings that Australia's monopoly wheat exporter was paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein to secure contracts under the U.N.'s discredited oil-for-food program.

Howard made the claim in a written statement made public as he began testifying at a so-called Royal Commission into the alleged corruption.

He became the first prime minister to appear at such a high-level inquiry since former Labour leader Bob Hawke testified at a probe into Australia's intelligence agencies in 1983.

In his ...

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