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Annan rejects Iraq oil bribe claim
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3750126.stm ^
Posted on 10/16/2004 6:43:46 PM PDT by politicalvanguard.com
has dismissed allegations that France and Russia might have been willing to ease sanctions on Iraq in return for oil. Kofi Annan told the Jonathan Dimbleby programme on British TV channel ITV1 the claims were "inconceivable".
"These are very serious and important governments. You are not dealing with banana republics," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: annan; napalminthemorning; oilforfood; un; wot
Surely that settles the question, no? After all, who knows more about bribes?
To: politicalvanguard.com
Ye can ride Annan, but ye can't hide... These Yankees are hopping mad!
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posted on
10/16/2004 6:47:02 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: coconutt2000
run... ye can run... but can't hide... ;-)
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posted on
10/16/2004 6:47:30 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: politicalvanguard.com
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posted on
10/16/2004 6:53:17 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("!Allahu Snackbar" - the war cry of the pajamadeen - Let's stop VOTE FRAUD NOW! Write your reps!)
To: politicalvanguard.com
Certainly not the French. They were in Viet Nam, you know.
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posted on
10/16/2004 6:57:20 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(SeeBS News - We Decide, We Create, We Report - In that order! - ABC - Already Been Caught)
To: politicalvanguard.com
Annan aside to Banana Republics. "Of course I meant that as a compliment (that you are not like the French or Russians).
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posted on
10/16/2004 6:58:43 PM PDT
by
kcar
(theUNsucks.com)
To: politicalvanguard.com
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posted on
10/16/2004 7:00:39 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Gd - against Amelek for all generations.)
To: politicalvanguard.com
"We have a lot of work to do as an international community to try and make the world safer." And what is the international community's PLAN for that? Would it be acceptable to "try" and fail?
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posted on
10/16/2004 7:12:01 PM PDT
by
etcetera
(All men are endowed by their Creator with the inalienable right to shoot back.)
To: politicalvanguard.com
"These are very serious and important governments. You are not dealing with banana republics," he added.
Are you sure Kofi? France has always struck me as a banana republic, soon to be a muslim fanatic republic.
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posted on
10/16/2004 7:15:26 PM PDT
by
schaketo
(Notorious for skinny dippin' in the same pond as snappin' turtles)
To: thoughtomator
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means!"Probably just some fisherman, out on a pleasure cruise, at night, through eel-infested waters..." Major whistling in the dark here...
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posted on
10/16/2004 7:22:12 PM PDT
by
Migraine
To: politicalvanguard.com
The only problem I have is Kofi Annan is the biggest banana there is. That a@@ should have been trashed by the UN a long time ago.
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posted on
10/16/2004 7:37:21 PM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: Logical me
To: politicalvanguard.com
"Annan rejects Iraq oil bribe claim, also expresses concern over claim that the earth is round"
To: politicalvanguard.com
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posted on
10/17/2004 5:43:54 AM PDT
by
GailA
( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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