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U.N. BIGS 'SEAL' THE OIL DEALS
New York Post ^ | 5/04/04 | NILES LATHEM

Posted on 05/04/2004 2:17:05 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

May 4, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The United Nations yesterday threw up a stone wall in the oil-for-food scandal, insisting that contracts between the world body and private companies should not be turned over to investigators. In a defiant move that has infuriated probers, Secretary-General Kofi Annan threw his support behind a letter from former oil-for-food head Benon Sevan to officials of a Dutch company that inspected Iraqi oil shipments. The letter directed the company not to hand over documents to congressional committees and other "governmental authorities."


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: annan; benonsevan; bribes; corruption; coverup; hussein; kofiannan; oilforfood; saybolt; sayboltinternational; scandal; sevan; stonewall; un; unitednations; volcker; whitewash
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1 posted on 05/04/2004 2:17:05 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
"This is disturbing," said a congressional investigator.

Disturbing? How about criminal, the UN is guilty of funding terrorist, embezzlement, and full of corruption.
2 posted on 05/04/2004 2:19:54 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: kattracks
The media and liberal Democrats will continue to ignore the whole scandal. I wish the GOP Congressional leadership would launch hearings into the matter.
3 posted on 05/04/2004 2:22:13 AM PDT by GeronL ("We are beyond right and wrong" the scariest words from the radical left.)
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To: kattracks
OUTRAGEOUS!
4 posted on 05/04/2004 2:24:31 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: boxerblues
If the US kicked the UN out of NY and dropped out, the world would not change one single bit. A bunch of fatcat paper pushers would be looking for work though.
5 posted on 05/04/2004 2:26:03 AM PDT by doosee
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To: kattracks
Now you know why the U. N. stonewalled the Liberation of Iraq.

The U. N. is dirty, Coffee is dirty, his son is dirty and a ton of others are dirty.

This investigation will go nowhere.

6 posted on 05/04/2004 2:33:45 AM PDT by Beckwith (Another reason for the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US . . .)
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To: MEG33
OUTRAGEOUS!
7 posted on 05/04/2004 2:45:43 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kattracks
JFKerry who wants to be president under the leadership of the UN, has the nerve to call Repbulicans "liars and crooks".

This investigation is looking more like "The Commission" of 9/11.
8 posted on 05/04/2004 2:54:22 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: kattracks; All
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9 posted on 05/04/2004 3:00:11 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: kattracks
KoffeeKup and his friends are so thoroughly corrupt, they can't see how stupid they look.

Then again they only know one way of life, stealing.

This is going to be the end of KoffeeKup, the amounts are just too large to go away and Sodemites pay back to them are the detailed accounts he kept.



10 posted on 05/04/2004 3:02:55 AM PDT by crazycat
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Is thia the kind of crap the queer-bait RATS can identify with? Why, shore Monica!
11 posted on 05/04/2004 3:06:24 AM PDT by Waco
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Showoff...;)
12 posted on 05/04/2004 3:11:32 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: kattracks
Doesn't this guy understand that a coverup is about the only thing that will get the US press frothing at the mouth and get them to dig: just as they did with Gary Hart? This has to be the stupidest of moves by people who truly don't have a clue about the United States.
13 posted on 05/04/2004 3:16:10 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: Beckwith
The U. N. is dirty, Coffee is dirty, his son is dirty and a ton of others are dirty.

Not to put too fine a point on it, this collection of third world scum and their first world enablers reminds me of nothing so much as Southern legislatures during reconstruction dominated by Freedmen, Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.

14 posted on 05/04/2004 3:18:31 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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"U.N. officials are talking about transparency in this investigation and yet they appear to be thwarting efforts to get the relevant documents. What does that say?" the investigator added.

It says they have something to hide.

15 posted on 05/04/2004 3:22:45 AM PDT by Amelia (It's the culture, stupid....or the lack thereof.)
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To: crazycat
This is going to be the end of KoffeeKup, the amounts are just too large to go away and Sodemites pay back to them are the detailed accounts he kept.

Koffi and Sevan are doing ....this seals their fate....it will only be a matter of time before we hear Annan has been forced to resign.

16 posted on 05/04/2004 3:26:10 AM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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To: Dog
doing=done
17 posted on 05/04/2004 3:27:25 AM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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To: Dog
....but who is going to force him to resign?
18 posted on 05/04/2004 3:30:34 AM PDT by mystery-ak (*They are all Pat Tillman's*........Rushl)
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To: GeronL
Or at least introduce a bill to cease all U.N. funding from the U.S. until all documents are made public and handed over to investigators.
19 posted on 05/04/2004 3:32:26 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kattracks
MASTER LIST UN OIL/SEX FOR FOOD SCANDALS
20 posted on 05/04/2004 4:01:02 AM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
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