I got to know that on 28 January 2004, three years after my Iraq visit, the Indian Ambassador to Baghdad had written a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran, saying that he had seen two articles, one on the website of the Pakistan daily, Jung, and the other in the Iraqi Arab daily, Al-Naida, which had mentioned that Saddam Hussein had given away oil to foreign individuals and institutions in return for political favours. In the list of recipients, the Congress Party and Bhim Singh’s names had been mentioned. Both were alleged to have received one million barrels each sometime after June
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