Investigating Reports,

Australia funded the Iraqi insurgency 

WARS have always fundamentally been about “RESOURCES” - whether land, gold, oil, slaves, chattels or livestock – and consequently pre-war intelligence was always fundamentally concerned with “resources” as well as with purely military matters.  

Intelligence these days is critically involved with trade and commerce – indeed non-Anglo-Celtic countries are severely disadvantaged by the Echelon satellite surveillance system involving the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Echelon’s ability to monitor every message in the world provides the Anglo-Celtic countries (Anglo-Celtia) with an extraordinary commercial advantage . However others are catching up, and the French (severe critics of Echelon in the European Parliament) have now developed their own version, amusingly dubbed “Frenchelon” by the French weekly magazine Le Point. 

“Resource” and “commercial” matters are key areas for all intelligence services and the mutually-cooperative Anglo-Celtic intelligence services make it their business to know what is going on in these areas. Echelon provides an extraordinarily powerful tool in this process that enables them to monitor every electronic message in the world – e-mails, telephone calls, electronically transmitted contracts and tenders, the whole works.

Bearing this in mind, the global reader should be alerted to an Inquiry being held in Sydney, Australia. Dubbed the Cole Inquiry (after the presiding Commissioner Cole) it is concerned with how the Australian Wheat Board (AWB, Australia’s monopoly wheat trader) paid up to US$250 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s régime, diverting this huge sum from the UN Oil-for-Food Program and hence from extremely scarce food and medicine for Iraqis suffering under US-enforced Sanctions. The mechanism used for the illegal transfer of these huge funds since 1999 involved AWB paying exorbitant “trucking fees” to an Iraqi Government front company based in Jordan. 

Remembering that Anglo-Celtic intelligence services would certainly have already been well aware of any commercial links with Iraq, the existence of kickback arrangements with the Iraqi Government only began to surface among “non-spooks” in the late 1990s. The Canadians and Americans are competitors of Australia in the huge Iraq wheat trade – a market that was traditionally dominated by Australia because of the suitability of Australian wheat for Iraqi purposes.  US and Canadian intelligence services would certainly have passed on any information about corrupt dealings putting their own countrymen at a major disadvantage.

Indeed by 2000 the existence of Iraqi kickback arrangements was common knowledge among intelligence, trade, diplomats, foreign affairs officials and in the US and Canadian wheat industry – while the Australian Government “knew nothing”. Charles Duelfer (senior member of the UN inspection team in pre-war Iraq and head of America's Iraq Survey Group post-invasion) has declared that “It was really systemised, I think, in 2000. And I don't think it was, you know, it wasn't a big secret”; and Samir Sumaidaie (current Iraqi Ambassador to the UN) has told the ABC Four Corners investigative TV program that Australian diplomats would have known about the kickbacks system,  stating that “Trade officials and embassy, if they are well informed, they should know. I mean, it's part of, it was at that time, I would say, general knowledge or public knowledge” (see: ABC ) 

In the Land of Lies the Truth is simply the opposite of every assertion. The racist, right wing Australian Government won the 2001 election by capturing the red-neck, racist vote by, among other things, claiming that Muslim refugee “boat people” had “thrown their children overboard

What have the Brits got to hide - that their Intelligence were well aware of the scam and had very likely passed this KEY information on to the British Government?

On March 8, 2001, US Ambassador James Cunningham informed the UN Security Council about Iraqi kickback scams under the UN Oil-for-Food Program : "We have evidence that kickbacks have been requested. We don't have very good evidence that they've been paid, but one assumes that this is happening."