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Australian Leader Testifies At Iraq Wheat Inquiry
April 13, 2006
Australian Prime Minister John Howard (file photo) (epa)
Howard today testified before an independent inquiry probing the allegations, the first Australian prime minister to appear at such a high-level inquiry in more than 20 years.
The company at the center of the controversy, AWB, was owned by the state at the time and was the single largest supplier of humanitarian goods under the United Nations' now-discredited oil-for-food program.
(compiled from agency reports)