US report: $ 21 billion for Saddam Hussein from smuggling oil

An investigation carried out by a committee affiliates to the US senate made on Tuesday said that the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won more than $ 21 billion from commissions and smuggling operations before and during the UN "food for oil" program. This represents two folds of the sum indicated in earlier estimation.

The investigators who are from the US senate said that sums came between 1991-2003 from additional fees on oil and commissions on civilian goods and direct smuggling to "desiring" governments.

The chairman of the branch investigation committee at the Senate, the Republican Senator Norm Coleman questioned "how the world had kept a blind eye on such huge quantity of blackmailing?"

This new figure reached by the investigation committee is two folds of the sum estimated by the US government, estimated at $ 10.1 billion.