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Posted on 10/24/2004 3:47:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
THE ROLE of Kofi Annan in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal is to be investigated after it emerged that the United Nations secretary-general was in charge of some of the most controversial aspects of the discredited humanitarian programme.
Annan, 66, the Ghanaian-born head of the UN and Nobel peace prize winner who is due to retire in 2006, is “co-operating” with the independent commission set up to look into the scandal. He has agreed to waive his diplomatic immunity and face legal action if any wrongdoing is uncovered.
Annan played a key role in the design and operation of the scheme.
Although there is no suggestion that he personally benefited from the programme, his actions may have helped others, including Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, to defraud the oil-for-food scheme.
Set up by the UN in 1995, the scheme allowed Saddam to sell controlled amounts of oil to buy humanitarian supplies. However, it is now alleged that the scheme was abused by the Iraqi dictator to “buy” political influence around the world while pocketing billions of dollars.
Yesterday, Claude Hankes-Drielsma, an adviser to the interim Iraqi government who has written to Annan, said: “The secretary-general carries the ultimate responsibility for the scheme and the problems with it were repeatedly drawn to his attention, yet he chose to do nothing.
“Everyone who allowed this scheme to operate in the way it did is guilty, irrespective of whether they personally benefited.”
The man Annan hired to run the programme, Benon Sevan,who reported directly to him, is now also under investigation for allegedly making more than $1m from selling Iraqi oil. He denies the accusations.
Good news!
I wonder if Koffi is going to shop his son in order to skate....
I wonder if Koffi is going to shop his son in order to skate....
But the MSM as a permanent spike on this story, at least for the next 2 weeks.
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Fox has done a couple good reports on this. While investigative journalism is not considered their forte' they did a very good job. Hopefully they will stay on the story since they seem to have the monopoly on reporting the real dirt.
I know, I've been following their coverage of this.
I'm just pissed that the only story against Kerry that would be covered by the MSM is if he's found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.
He ought to be facing a jury of Iraqis. Right beside Saddamn.
We hear a lot about the high profile facilitators and profiteers of terrorism like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, however one of the most notorious is still at large. His name is Kofi Annan. As the head of the United Nations, his organization of spies and henchmen act as financial middlemen that broker deals on behalf of despots, dictators, and easily bribed politicians for a piece of the action. The UN has been playing everyone off everyone else since its inception and now operate one of the most successful criminal organisations on the planet. A peculiar above-any-law status enjoyed by the United Nations, fostered by decades of cloaking themselves in the mystique of international humanitarianism, has largely allowed them to avoid criminal prosecution. The sums of money involved in the United Nations/Iraqi illegal oil smuggling scheme would make a Colombian cocaine cartel boss blush. The UN needs to be dissolved and scattered to the four winds as the miserable vestige of global communism and corruption it is, and its enablers brought to justice.
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The UN and Democrats have invited disrespect and dishonor towards our country and president. In fact, they encouraged it.
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