According to a report by
WorldNet Daily reporter Aaron Klein, Baker hired
Nir Gouaz, president of Caesar Global Securities in Israel, to collect
a debt from the Hussein regime in 1998.
Baker is a senior partner at the Houston-based law firm, Baker Botts,
which made some $30 million in fees from the deal which the Israeli
businessman mediated.
Gouaz said the Iraqi regime owed some $1.65 billion to the Korean
Hyundai Engineering firm for a series of construction projects on
which it defaulted in the wake of the Gulf War.
U.S. legal sanctions on Iraq did not apply to Israelis, hence Baker’s
request that Gouaz mediate the deal. The Bank of Jordan was also
involved in the transactions.
Gouaz came forward with the information early this week in response
to the release of the Baker-Hamilton report in the U.S. which recommended
that Israel withdraw from Judea, Samaria, parts of Jerusalem and
the Golan Heights.
“As a citizen of Israel I cannot just sit by and watch the hypocrisy
being spewed by Baker,” Gouaz said. “If Baker was stil a private
citizen I could keep his business dealings private, but now he is
involved in diplomacy that sells out Israel. People need to understand
he is acting out of economic considerations.”
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