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Iraq sues companies over oil-for-food kickbacks
The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron...saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for-food program...The lawsuit says billions of dollars were lost, "all of which were directly translatable into food, medicine and other humanitarian goods that were supposed to reach the Iraqi people."...Other companies named in the lawsuit include...BNP Paribas...GlaxoSmithKline...Roche Holding...units of...Schering-Plough...several units of Switzerland's engineering company ABB...[and] AWB...