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DEAR AUSTRALIANS

Remember the Alamo.

For kidnapping my child

I give you a present.   A nice present that will make sure you go
through what i am going through.

Ha ha ha ha ha

this is the beginnnnnnning.....wait till BHP hits the ceiling

Oh the Uranium ....... no way.....

The Gold in Perth ......yes way.

why do u think I will find out.    cause here it comes

AWB LTD: Farmers File $1B Suit in Wash Over RICO Act Violations
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AWB Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary, AWB (USA) Ltd., were named as
defendants in a purported class action filed by North American
farmers, accusing the Australian wheat exporter of engaging in a
worldwide campaign of racketeering, money laundering, fraud and
bribery to corner grain markets.

The suit, filed in a Washington, D.C. court, is claiming $1
billion in damages from defendants.  Plaintiffs allege that the
defendants' actions in Iraq and several other countries breached
U.S. laws and hurt thousands of American and Canadian farmers.

Farmers, including lead plaintiff Veryl Switzer, are basing
their claims on the U.S. Racketeer Influence and Corrupt
Organizations Act, which was designed to target the mafia and
other criminal groups.  They are also basing their claims on
alleged breaches by defendants of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act.

Currently, the class action only names six farmers, however it
does allow more than 20,000 to join in later.  Reports indicate
that American lobby group, U.S. Wheat Associates, would consider
joining the action if it was approached.  The Canadian Wheat
Farmers Association is reportedly considering joining the class
action as well.

Last year, a U.N. investigative committee found that AWB paid
$290 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime to secure
wheat contracts in Iraq.

The Cole Inquiry in Sydney uncovered evidence about AWB's
corruption of the U.N. oil-for-food program between 1999 and
2003, as well as subsequent cover-up attempts.

The Cole Inquiry was an inquiry set up by Australia officials
under the Royal Commissions Act 1902 in November 2005 to
investigate the role of certain Australian companies in the
systematic corruption of the Oil for Food program by Saddam
Hussein.  It was limited to investigating the role of three
Australian companies in paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein,
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_inquiry.

Its Royal Commissioner was the Honorable Terence Cole Q.C., a
former Judge of Appeal of the New South Wales Supreme Court.
John Agius S.C., Counsel Assisting, and three other barristers,
Gregory Nell, Michael Wigney and Miles Condon, supported Mr.
Terence in the inquiry.

However, AWB's "fraudulent abuse" of the U.N. food program and
"bribery" of Iraqi officials form only part of the "allegations
of fact" in the class action.  In the complaint, obtained by
Australian news agency, The Age, AWB is also being accused of:

      -- bribing Yemeni Government officials to secure a wheat
         contract in 1999;

      -- bribing Pakistani officials for a contract to export
         wheat to Pakistan in 2000;

      -- sabotaging the Indonesian wheat market in 2002 to shut
         out U.S. rivals by fraudulently manipulating the U.S.
         Agriculture Department export-credit program; and

      -- committing perjury and obstructing justice in an effort
         to cover up the wheat board's corrupt Iraqi dealings.

The complaint also states, "Certain AWB officials .
intentionally and knowingly conspired to utilize illegal tactics
such as wire fraud, bank fraud, bribery, money laundering and
tortious interference with business opportunity in order to gain
an unfair competitive advantage in certain wheat markets
including, but not limited to, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and
Indonesia."

The complaint further claims, "AWB unfair advantage conspirators
formed an ongoing criminal enterprise designed to implement
tactics known to violate international laws and U.S. domestic
laws to effect an unfair competitive advantage for AWB in
specific international wheat markets."

Attorneys are demanding a jury trial, tens of millions of
dollars in compensation, the application of racketeering law
provisions, which would allow the tripling of any damages and
appropriate "additional or alternative relief."

Several U.S. lawyers, including Washington attorney L. Palmer
Foret and Atlanta-based lawyer Roderick E. Edmond, who
specialises in medical negligence cases, are handling the
lawsuit.

For more details, contact:

     (1) Roderick E. Edmond of Edmond & Jones, LLP, Candler
         Building, 127 Peachtree Street NE, Suite #410, Atlanta,
         GA 30303, Phone: (404) 525-1080, Fax: (404) 525-1073,
         E-mail: http://www.edmondfirm.com/index.html;and

     (2) L. Palmer Foret, The Law Firm of Palmer Foret, PC, Two
         Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 660, Chevy Chase, MD 20815,
         Phone: (301) 656-1888, E-mail: lpforet@aol.com.