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Article: Congress urges Bush to investigate Australian wheat deal with Iraq
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- November 1, 2003
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ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-01-2003
Dateline: WICHITA, Kansas
U.S. farmers have rallied some congressional support behind claims that Australian wheat was sold to Iraq at inflated prices and that money was then given secretly to Saddam Hussein's family to maintain trade.
The Australian Wheat Board, a monopoly company that markets all Australian wheat overseas, has strongly denied the accusations, raised in June by the lobbying group U.S. Wheat Associates.
But, with negotiations under way on a free trade agreement with Australia, and the United Nations' oil-for-food humanitarian program with Iraq set to end on Nov. 21, lawmakers from the nation's farm states are ...
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