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Bodyguard
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:30 am Post subject: Oil for food.....the truth comes out.
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Maybye one of the reasons the UN was so against the war in Iraq........this was brought up at the time but was scoffed at.
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"If there is evidence, we would investigate it very seriously," Kofi Annan insisted last month when presented with allegations that U.N. officials knew about and may have benefited from Saddam Hussein's corruption of the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program. Fortunately, Saddam appears to have been a stickler for record-keeping.
A letter has come to The Wall Street Journal supporting allegations that among those favored by Saddam with gifts of oil was Benon Sevan, director of the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program. As detailed on this page on Feb. 9, Mr. Sevan's name appears on a list of individuals, companies and organizations that allegedly received oil allocations or vouchers from Saddam that could then be sold via middlemen for a significant markup. The list, compiled in Arabic from documents uncovered in Iraq's oil ministry, included many of Saddam's nearest and dearest from some 50 countries, including the PLO, pro-Saddam British MP George Galloway, and French politician Charles Pasqua. (Messrs. Galloway and Pasqua have denied receiving anything from Saddam.) According to the list, first published by the Iraqi daily Al Mada in January, Mr. Sevan was another beneficiary, via a company in Panama known as Africa Middle East Petroleum, Co. Ltd. (AMEP), about which we have learned quite a bit.
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The entire article
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004801
So there is a case to be made that the UN had more than just a humanitarian reason to keep the US out of Iraq. I also think it shows just how corrupt the UN is.
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kanaka
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:01 am Post subject:
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Yeah, that was a good page in history too, BG. Sad situation all over, any which way you look at it. The US provided Iraq with weapons and WMD's, which Iraq in turn used on its own people. The former USSR sent in arms, those were used likewise. France, China chipped in, the UN got involved in some magic math. Bloody amazing when you really think about the scope of it all. No wonder Enron slipped right by everyone's common sense. No wonder we're trying to get away from it all now .... to Mars.
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Bodyguard
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:47 am Post subject:
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Well K, we are talking about the UN and its reasons to support Saddam. Think about it.....the UN supposedly wants peace and justice for all.....they were propping up an evil man that murdered hundereds of thousands of innocent people.....all for the love of money......I ask you this, how many people did Enron and its execs murder? They may have hurt people very badly in an economic sense but what a difference huh?
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