A Houston oil company agreed to boycott Israel in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal, according to congressional testimony. Dan Berkovitz, counsel to the Democrats on the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee, which is investigating charges that officials and companies took kickbacks from Saddam Hussein’s regime under the U.N. humanitarian oil-for-food scheme, said Bayoil agreed to boycott conditions in its dealings with Iraq.
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