Articles by Jane Arraf, Correspondent
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Iraq to Pay $400 Million for Saddam’s Mistreatment of Americans
Jane Arraf, Correspondent – The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Sep 2010
The money comes out of a roughly $900 million fund in frozen assets held by the US government to settle unresolved contracts under the Oil for Food program…. The settlement is controversial not only because of Iraq’s pressing developmental needs, but because it holds the current government accountable for Saddam Hussein’s actions.“A lot of blood has flowed since then and a lot of it is Iraqi blood. It’s arguable that the suffering was not caused by the current Iraqi government or the Iraqi people,” says one senior Iraqi official. “This is politics, this is not justice.”
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