Jean-Marie Benjamin
Jean-Marie Benjamin (born April 1946 in Salon-de-Provence) is a priest who once worked as an assistant to the Vatican secretary of state and became an activist for lifting Iraq sanctions prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is reported to have set up the meeting between former Pope John Paul II and Tariq Aziz, Iraq's foreign minister.
Jean-Marie Benjamin
- Full name
- Jean-Marie Guillaud-Benjamin.
- Born
- 1946. · Salon-de-Provence.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- catholic priest, composer, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
- Honours
- Montyon Prize.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean-Marie Benjamin (born April 1946 in Salon-de-Provence) is a priest who once worked as an assistant to the Vatican secretary of state and became an activist for lifting Iraq sanctions prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is reported to have set up the meeting between former Pope John Paul II and Tariq Aziz, Iraq's foreign minister.
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Jean-Marie Benjamin is recorded with the occupation Catholic priest. Recorded with the occupation film producer. Recorded as catholic priest, composer, film director, film producer and screenwriter. Recorded at birth as Jean-Marie Guillaud-Benjamin.
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- 1.Tiberio Graziani. Le père Benjamin : un engagement pour la paix et la justice. Irak, avant-poste de l’Eurasie. Avatar Éditions . 23-27. 2003.
- 2.Francesco Donati, Interview du Padre Jean-Marie Benjamin, mai 1997, portail italien de la musique chrétienne.
- 3.Rai 1 http://www.archivio.raiuno.rai.it/schede/9017/901794.htm.
- 4.Cutuli Maria Grazia. L'eredità delle bombe: bambini deformi e malati di cancro. Corriere della Sera. 13 url. 16 janvier 2001.
- 5.Joëlle Pénochet. Irak : le génocide silencieux. Votre santé. 29. 7 url. mars 2002.
- 6.Amina Djaouad. Irak. Témoin d'une "guerre propre". L’Humanité. 13 novembre 1999 url.
- 7.Françoise Germain-Robin. Entre faute et apocalypse. Une politique criminelle. Le Monde diplomatique. 19 url. janvier 2000.
- 8.Joëlle Pénochet, « D'Hiroshima à Bagdad », , reproduction d'un article de Médecines nouvelles , 2002.
- 9.« Iraq : oltre il genocidio ».
- 10.Jean-Pierre Perrin. Vol Paris-Bagdad : tout le monde descend. Les pressions américaines auraient empêché le décollage. Libération (journal) Libération. 30 septembre 2000 url.
- 11.Mouna Naim. Un avion pour l'Irak » devait partir pour Bagdad. Le Monde. 30 septembre 2000 url.
- 12.John L. Allen Jr. And tonight’s guest is… Vatican plays host to an uneasy world. National Catholic Reporter. 21 février 2003 url.
- 13.Éric Decouty et Sophie Ravinel. Les Français payés par Saddam Hussein. Le Figaro. 15 juillet 2005 .
- 14.Paul Heaton. Oil for What? - Illicit Iraqi Oil Contracts and the U.N. Security Council. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 193-206. 2005 url.
- 15.Dominique Audibert. Le dérapage des deux diplomates. Le Point. 17 janvier 2007 url.
- 16.Report on the Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme (Rapport sur la manipulation du programme Pétrole contre nourriture) du 27 octobre 2005 http://www.iic-offp.org/story27oct05.htm, chapitre 2, page 100.
- 17.Le journal italien Il Sole 24 Ore, dans un article du 18 septembre 2005, intitulé Inchiesta oil for food : Sotto accusa il «prete dell'embargo» confirme que cette lettre a été effectivement écrite. http://www.ilsole24ore.com/fc?cmd=art&artId=711194&chId=30.
- 18.page 101.
- 19.Synthèse du colloque Guerre et environnement. http://www.wwf.fr/s-informer/actualites/synthese-du-colloque-guerre-et-environnement.
- 20.MusicWeb InternationalUpdated: May 2017 French Symphonies From the Nineteenth Century To The Present.
- 21.Rencontres internationales du cinéma vérité.
- 22.IRAK - L'effet boomerang. Balland. 2015.
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