[mewzilla]

It blamed shoddy U.N. management...

Snort. Oil For Food was a scam from its inception. And there was nothing shoddy about how that scam was managed.

[paudio]

It's just amazing that yahoo doesn't have a headline on this. Nor does CNN... But again, the possibility of Rove being indicted is the most important story for them...

[gondramB]

What I'd like to see is a breakdown by which companies profited most. And go after those first. I'd also like to see the company breakdown by nationality.

[unixfox]

In a scathing final report documenting massive corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program, investigators accused will do nothing to more than 2,200 companies and prominent politicians...

There, it's fixed.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

It appears, a lot of us, including me, owe Mr Volcker an apology.

[Grampa Dave]

Was Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) one of the companies involved?

[2banana]

So many people and businesses involved - and so much money - and nobody said a WORD? The breadth of this corruption is staggering...

[aubreyduke]

"The 623-page document exposed the global scope of a scam that allegedly involved such name-brand companies as DaimlerChrysler "

Did saddamn drive a chrysler?

[ravingnutter]

The Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a French priest based in Assisi, Italy, was in Baghdad three years ago to investigate the effects of the embargo and depleted uranium from allied weapons when he got caught under a U.S.-led bombing strike.

Last week, Benjamin celebrated the one-year anniversary of the day when he led the first sanctions-busting flight into Iraq. On April 5, 2000, Benjamin, a pilot and a member of the Italian Parliament, passed undetected through the no-fly zone in a small jet to protest the sanctions.

Since then, he has continued to travel regularly to Iraq, in bigger planes, bringing humanitarian aid and businessmen along for the ride.

Source

Businessmen...hmmmmm....

[ravingnutter]

I knew Benjamin's name sounded familiar...check this out

Father Benjamin first came to my attention a few days after the attack on the World Trade Centre, when the Vatican’s Online News Agency, Zenit, posted a strange little article claiming that Father Benjamin had been officiating at a high-powered wedding attended by European judges and politicians just a few days before September 11, and that he had told the guests that he’d been tipped off that a major US target would be attacked in the next few days using hijacked planes.

Source

[NormsRevenge]

The companies came from Thailand, Malaysia, Russia, Belarus, Syria, Canada and many other places.

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Thanks for posting.

It's gonna take awhile to unravel this ball of snakes..