'SMOKING GUN' IN SADDAM'S OILY SCAM

New York Post ^ | 5/13/04 | NILES LATHEM

[kattracks]

May 13, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - U.N. investigators have arrived in Baghdad to look at "smoking gun" files that purportedly document wholesale bribery of U.N. officials and international political figures by Saddam Hussein, The Post has learned. Sources close to the probe said staffers of the U.N. commission, headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, were in Iraq to open a critical phase of the investigation into the oil-for-food program scandal.

[Jim Robinson]

And Kerry claims he could've smooth-talked the UN and the French, Gremans, Russians, et al, into joining a coalition to go after Saddam. Yeah, right. He and Gore probably smoke the same weed.

[backhoe]

Click the Pic:

[maryz]

It would be the first time since a Baghdad newspaper published a list of 270 international political and business figures who reportedly received sweetheart oil deals from Saddam's regime that investigators have been able to see firsthand evidence of bribery. . . .

. . . since the UN decided to stonewall, sending letters to companies involved warning them not to release documents to anyone the UN doesn't approve.

[piasa]

It would be the first time since a Baghdad newspaper published a list of 270 international political and business figures who reportedly received sweetheart oil deals from Saddam's regime that investigators have been able to see firsthand evidence of bribery.

From what I understand, that list is by no means complete.

[Dog]

Fyi..

[wayoverontheright]

From what I understand, that list is by no means complete.

Could this be the reason why EVERY PROMINENT DEMOCRAT was virulently opposed to going into Iraq without the UN?

We know that a prominent British pol had been contacted, and ACCEPTED, are we to believe the same solicitations weren't made of American pols?

[GailA]

MASTER LIST UN OIL/SEX FOR FOOD SCANDALS

[Dog]

There is another list that has just surfaced.....a member of the Iraqi Governing Council alluded to it just being found a couple of weeks ago.....it contains the names of journalists and personalties from around the world who were on the take.

[rwfromkansas]

Is it posted and translated anywhere?

[devolve]

TRUST JOHN KERRY


        _{THE VC DID}

[holden]

I guess this is why we hear this morning the SECDEF has gone to Iraq with his most senior lawyer staff.

The question is how to approach the response, however. I suppose there are dozens of top lawyers who will be working on the question of how to force the UN out of NY and to be disbanded. We can hardly face-down multiple on-the-take governments. We can do what we can to get the cooperation of international financial institutions to freeze assets of those under criminal indictment (den Haag?).

It's not going to be easy to defeat evil and corruption in the coming months and years. If ever there was a time we needed the country's best in government, here it comes.

HF

[devolve]

First November.

We will defund and bypass the leftie media.

[TiaS]

ping :)

[Tunehead54]

IIRC they were CASH payments. Anyone have more info?

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Bump! ;-)

[arasina]

Journalists? I wonder if Eason Jordan of CNN is "embedded" on that list somewhere.

The News We (CNN) Kept to Ourselves

If you didn't click on the link, here's what the news biz calls a "tease" ---

4/11/03 ATLANTA — Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.

[Brett66]

I'm sure Kofi's name will be part of that list. Will he be forced to step down? No, him and his crook cohorts will simply veto any afforts of the US to do that(if we would try). The UN 's a bunch of thieves and terrorist supporters. Kofi and cohorts are safe in their swamp.

[unixfox]

Anybody willing to bet that X42 made the list?

[Just mythoughts]

Show trials to begin in Iraq after June 30. This must be the reason why so many are doing so much to prevent this turnover.

[Ben Hecks]

Bump!