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Probe: Oil-for-Food Money Went to Palestinian Bombers' Families
(FOX News) Money from the UN Oil-for-Food program helped pay the families of Palestinian homicide bombers, the House Committee on International Relations is expected to reveal during a hearing Wednesday. Investigators will reveal that some of the bounties of $15,000 to $25,000 that Saddam paid to the Palestinian families of bombers who attacked Israeli citizens were deposited from illegal profits Saddam made from 10% kickbacks on contracts of the UN's Oil-for-Food program. The funds were deposited into the Central Bank of Iraq account in the Rafidain Bank in Amman, Jordan, and then transferred to another account in the bank controlled by Iraq's ambassador to Jordan Sabah Yaseen.