U.N. OIL PAPERS VANISH

New York Post ^ | 4/29/04 | NILES LATHEM

[Wolfstar]

...I saw a clip of Lantos yesterday...

Although I don't live in his district, as a Californian, I'm embarrassed by Tom Lantos (and Maxine Waters, and...well, in the California Dem delegation there are too many to name).

[mewzilla]

Well, here's something to consider...Oil For Food began in 1996 apparently. Whose idea was it? Who set up the plan? How soon did the theft start? Was theft the real reason for the plan in the first place? And more than oil and money was involved. The humanitarian end was also rife with problems. Cheesy supplies that cost more than they worth. I'd like to know what our pols knew and when. According to Gardiner this morning, there were suspicions about Oil For Food as early as 2000.

[philman_36]

It would seem that the article is a pretty general one. I've found it at a couple of places now.
I'll ping you to another article I just found here at FR...

[Quix]

CHECK SHRILLERY'S CLOSETS!

CHECK HER PANTIES!

CHECK HER BRA, IF SHE WEARS ONE.

CHECK HER AND RENO'S DILLDO DRAWERS.

CHECK HER VEHICLES.

LOOK UNDER ALL THE ROCKS IN HER GARDEN.

CHECK ALL HER BANK BOXES.

CHECK ALL HER FRIENDS AND LADY LOVERS' HOMES.

[philman_36]

I see where you got the pic from...Friends of Saddam

[backhoe]

Yep, it's a cute little graphic. And Saddam had lots of friends in high places, too.

[Calvin Locke]

Probably the ones that have Kofi's son Cujo mentioned.

[Wolfstar]

Whose idea was it? Who set up the plan? How soon did the theft start?

Don't know whose idea it was, but Kofi Annan and his minions set up the plan. Theft began almost immediately and increased both in scope and brazenness as time went on. It didn't end until Saddam was toppled last year.

[John Lenin]

.Oil For Food began in 1996 apparently

I wonder how much of the money ended up in DNC coffers.

[philman_36]

Oil For Food began in 1996 apparently.
Hmmmm..Oil-for-Food
Agreement: Although established in April 1995, the implementation of the programme started only in December 1996, after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United Nations and the Government of Iraq on 20 May 1996 (S/1996/356). The first Iraqi oil under the Oil-for-Food Programme was exported in December 1996 and the first shipments of food arrived in March 1997.
Security Council Resolutions on Iraq
15 August 1991 - "Oil-for-Food" - Authorizes proceeds of limited sales of Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products to be paid into an escrow account for the purchase of foodstuffs, medicines and materials and supplies for essential civilian needs.
Resolution 706 (1991) on the situation between Iraq and Kuwait

Some good questions you've got there. Good luck in trying to find any answers to them.

[BARLF]

Investigators should have swooped in on their offices with warrants in hand and sealed the premises as soon as the shit hit the fan.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Will the records found in Iraq be sufficent for the investigation to continue?

Good grief, is there never any controlling legal authority?

[BARLF]

Investigators should have swooped in on their offices with warrants in hand and sealed the premises as soon as the shit hit the fan.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Will the records found in Iraq be sufficent for the investigation to continue?

Good grief, is there never any controlling legal authority?

[MeekOneGOP]

"For reasons I have yet to fully understand, several U.N. leaders approached the implementation of the oil-for-food program with more distrust towards the United Kingdom and United States than towards the regime of Saddam Hussein," Michael Soussan said.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan fired back.

"If you read the reports, it looks as if the Saddam regime had nothing to do with it. They did nothing wrong - it was all the U.N.," Annan said.

To Kofi Annan with love,

Bart

[bert]

Show me a Nigerian who's not a crook and I'll show you a phantom.

[BARLF]

Denis Halliday

He was co-ordinator of the programme that allows Iraq to sell limited amounts of oil to buy food, medicine and other supplies

He resigned his post after 34 years because of the starving children in Iraq.IIRC, he blamed the sanction's imposed by the UN.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

http://www.casi.org.uk/info/undocs/status020108.pdf

would like to find out from any-one who can explain the procedure of the oil for food program. Basically, as of the end of phase X (Dec 2001), only $17b. worth of contracts have been recieved in Iraq, despite approximately $30b. having been approved by the UN sanctions committee. This disparity cannot be explained by the $5b. in held-up contracts, but the difference between contracts approved and contracts delivered. It could a matter of bureaucracy, of either the Iraqi govt., the UN, or problems with the contractors.

http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/latest/basicfigures.html

The second table (accurate to 31 March 2001 when I
look at it now) reveals that, although $17,477 +
$3,830.8 = $21,307.8 million of contracts (approved by
the Sanctions Committee + approved under the "green
lists"), only $12,082.7 million (56.7%) have reached
Iraq.



http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2002/msg00146.html

Iran to start flights to Iraq JORDAN TIMES 24.01.02

Iran is to start flights to its former enemy Iraq after a break of more than two decades and plans to use Iraqi airspace for direct flights to Syria

http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/background/latest/bvs031119.html

Phasing down and termination of the Programme
pursuant to Security Council resolution 1483 (2003)

Benon V. Sevan
Executive Director of the Iraq Programme


http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/19737.htm

U.N. BIG WILL TELL ALL ON OILY SCAM

Committee sources said Soussan, now a New York-area writer, is expected to give the first, under oath, public account from an insider about how top U.N. officials were aware of Saddam's oil smuggling and kickback schemes but chose to let him get away with it.


http://rantburg.com/default.asp?D=3/27/2004&C=International-UN-NGOs#29212

Today's Headlines...

[BARLF]

http://www.worldpress.org/specials/iraq/unscr986.htm

UN Resolution 661 & 986(1995) might help.If my link above works that will take you to R986.

[BARLF]

http://www.worldpress.org/specials/iraq/unscr986.htm

[mtbopfuyn]

"If you read the reports, it looks as if the Saddam regime had nothing to do with it. They did nothing wrong - it was all the U.N.," Annan said.

Ok. BTW, Coffee Cup, how's your son?

[Hostage]

Be very careful touting KPMG. They are known as crroks who seel fraudulent foreign tax shelter schemes and scams to wealthy individuals and corporations.

The Iraqi governing council is not a den of boy scouts. In fact Bremer had documents in Iraq pulled from KPMG and certain members of the governing council to protect them, i.e. KPMG was hired to cover somebody's ass.