[GailA]

Is there a banker here that would know what the interest would be on this Compensation Fund? What would the interest rate on this kind of money be?

It also seems that NO body has been paid from this compensation.

[11B3]

Last report I read stated that the UN had in its' possession about $21 Billion from this program. No wonder that they don't want to see the sanctions lifted. There are 4,300 DIRECT UN EMPLOYEES working on this program.

[browardchad]

It also seems that NO body has been paid from this compensation.

I believe Kuwait has received some compensation -- that's handled by yet another UN committee of corrupt bureaucrats, as I recall.

What this report doesn't mention is that Saddam was fully in charge of oil sales and food purchases, as well as having authority over the geographic distribution -- no wonder UNICEF supplies were found in Baathist houses, and a locked warehouse full of undistributed food and children's vaccines were found in the starving South.

Considering that there are enough munitions in the country to arm every man, woman and child in Iraq, I wonder how many of those "contracts" approved by the impotent UNMOVIC, and how many UN aid shipments, were a cover for arms shipments?

This program, like the UN, is a travesty.