British found the main reason for the war in Iraq: Russia

British found the main culprit of the war in Iraq. The ongoing UK public hearings about the circumstances of the war in Iraq, accusations against Russia.
As the head of British intelligence, John Soz, it was she who at the time prevented a peaceful solution to the conflict by blocking the UN Security Council attempt to introduce a so-called “smart sanctions” against the regime of Saddam Hussein.

In 2001, they tried to hold a Security Council the Americans and British, and they would be allowed to avoid an armed invasion, which followed two years later, says Soz. Previously, he served as adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s foreign affairs and participated in the negotiations on solving the conflict over the situation in Iraq, reports BBC.

“Smart sanctions” were allowed to import into Iraq of all commodities, except those which are considered suitable for military use. Soz was personally present in the development of this plan. “He failed in the end because of the fact that it did not accept Russian”, – said the head of MI-6.

“The official pretext for this was that the new sanctions regime was allegedly in their opinion, too broad and complex. But the real reason was that, as a high-ranking Russians have admitted to us they were worried for their own commercial interests in Iraq”, – said he.

British parliamentary committee is trying to figure out why the Government felt it necessary to invade Iraq in 2003 and have been exhausted peaceful means to get rid of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime to the international community.

John Soz recalled that in 2001 acted program of “oil for food program, which suited Baghdad more than the proposed” smart sanctions “. According to a former adviser to Tony Blair, the Iraqis decided not to allow the introduction of new restrictions put pressure on Russia, a permanent member of UN Security Council.

“The Iraqis have threatened to break off contracts with Russia if it agrees to new sanctions. This has led to what Russian, in turn, threatened to veto the resolution if we put it on the ballot” – told Soz.

The fact that Iraq is influenced by the Kremlin to the UN, the West has repeatedly said before. For example, in 2005, The Washington Post published excerpts from a report on the results of the Senate investigation into the U.S.. It explicitly states that Iraq has rewarded the government of Russia as a permanent member of UN Security Council, capable of controlling the issue of sanctions against the regime of Hussein.

In addition, reports indicate that the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, several Russian commercial organizations and the Houston oil company Bayoil “paid millions of dollars to Saddam’s regime as an illegal secret kickbacks in connection with the oil transactions.” According to U.S. officials, the Iraqi dictator used the illegal proceeds from the sale of oil, in particular, for the purchase of weapons.

The then Iraqi ambassador to the UN, Faisal Amin Istrabadi said that Russia was one of a dozen countries that profit from the oil wealth of Iraq. “Of course, there were involved in commercial and political interests, and Russia behaved like any other state, take care of itself” – he said.

“Oil for food” – the scandalous UN program

In addition, the documents of that time listed the new facts about the scandal of the UN “oil for food program, introduced in December 1996 with the aim of partial relaxation of international economic sanctions against Iraq.

The program has led to success in reducing the opportunities Hussein from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and improved humanitarian conditions for ordinary Iraqis. But at the same time, it was for Hussein channel through which he pumped more than $ 2 billion in illegal revenue by imposing a bribe to the companies that traded with Baghdad, said U.S. interrogators.

Under this program, Iraq bypassed traditional oil traders, giving influential businessmen, politicians, celebrities and terrorist groups the right to buy millions of barrels of oil. Then these people sold their rights under the 3-30% per barrel, trading companies, to supply oil to major oil refineries United States, Europe and Asia. Over time, Hussein began taking kickbacks – 10-50% per barrel, placing the amounts received in secret bank accounts.

The documents of the Senate cited a senior government official Hussein, who said that “whole point” of granting rights to petroleum individuals had to give them the opportunity to receive personal benefit. The reports of the Senate, based partly on interviews with former Iraqi officials and involving hundreds of pages of documents, states that the list of members of the UN Security Council, which sought support for Saddam, led by Russia. Over 30% of the rights to Iraqi oil passed to Russia officials, political parties and businessmen.

One report states that Hussein allocated oil vouchers – an opportunity to buy cheap oil – an organization called the Presidential Council of Russia, consisting of advisors appointed by the President of Russia for the development of presidential politics, drafting presidential decrees and policy coordination of various agencies. On behalf of the Board of vouchers received two men – Alexander Voloshin, the influential head of Yeltsin’s administration, and then Putin, who also headed the council, and a friend and attorney Voloshin Sergei Isakov.

The report notes that the couple hired the company to carry out transactions. According to the report, in 1999-2003, their combined income was $ 3 million. Voloshin, Putin directed the first campaign, and, as noted by the media, participated in the creation of pro-Kremlin party unity. The party also received vouchers, along with the Foreign Ministry, the CPRF and the LDPR.

In particular, Zhirinovsky also receive vouchers for the purchase of oil, thanks to which from 1997 to 2002, he made 8.7 million dollars. Senate investigators were at the disposal of letters signed by Zhirinovsky, which discussed the acquisition of oil and the Iraqi Oil Ministry documents, which indicated to us he and his political party with the vouchers.

In 1997, Zhirinovsky wrote a letter to the Iraqi ambassador to Russia, said that his party firmly opposes the imposition of economic sanctions the United Nations and used his influence to persuade the Duma to promote economic cooperation with Iraq, including the results of contracts under the program “Oil in for food.

In the Senate paper noted that Hussein had personally approved the allocation of oil vouchers for coaxing the Russians and to provide “compensation for support.” Once, Saddam ordered the reward for the Russians that in 2000 they threatened to veto a UN Security Council resolution that would limit the illicit trade in Iraqi borders. The threat of a veto killed a resolution to its formal discussion, which brought Russia additional oil vouchers, and contracts for humanitarian goods, the document said.