Shakir al Khafaji

Shakir al Khafaji

Shakir al Khafaji (born 1955) is a Detroit-based Iraqi-American businessman involved in the United Nations Oil for Food scandal. He immigrated to the United States in 1975. He graduated with a degree in architecture from Lawrence Tech University.

In 2005 Al-Khafaji pled guilty to multiple felony charges, having received discounted oil contracts from Saddam Hussein. [John O'Neil. "Virginia Man Pleads Guilty in Oil-for-Food Inquiry". New York Times. January 18, 2005] Al Khafaji admitted to the "Financial Times" to selling oil he received from Hussein's government to Italtech, an Italian company. The newspaper estimated he made around $1.1m from the oil for food programme. It also emerged that he had made a financial contribution to the the lobbying activities of former weapons-inspector turned anti-sanctions activist, Scott Ritter - notably $400,000 for a 2000 documentary "In Shifting Sands" on the effects of the sanctions.

Al Khafaji's name appears at least twice in the 2004 Duelfer Report, for oil export contracts M/8/117 and M/10/24. He was one of two Americans on the 270-name Al Mada list.

He was chairman of the 17th conference of Iraqi expatriates.

References

* Dawson Bell and Tamara Audi, Detroit Free Press, April 24, 2004, "Role of Detroit area man questioned in U.N. scandal"
* Lionel Barber, Claudio Gatti and Mark Turner, Financial Times, April 13, 2004, [http://www.mail-archive.com/sam11@erols.com/msg00286.html "Money questions surround former UN weapons inspector's film: Arms expert's documentary was backed by financier who profited from the controversial oil-for-food programme for Iraq"]
* Robert L. Pollock, Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2004, [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004822 "Saddam's Useful Idiots"]
* [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/pdf/duelfer1_eab.pdf Duelfer Report Annex B]


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