Posted on 10/22/2005 12:55:43 PM PDT by 68skylark
NEW YORK — The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department () now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinister, especially where it involves a mysterious private company called IHC Services (), which did big business with the procurement department until it was removed from U.N. rosters in June.
New details of how dark the scandal could prove to be have emerged from the private sale of IHC on June 3, 2005, just as the procurement scandal was about to break. It now appears that while doing business with the U.N., IHC had links both to Saddam Hussein’s old sanctions-busting networks, and to a Liechtenstein-based businessman, Engelbert Schreiber, Jr., known among other things for his ties to a figure designated by the U.N. itself as a financier of Al Qaeda ().
Registered in New York State, with offices in New York City and Milan, IHC has been involved in possibly hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of business with the U.N. since the mid-1990s, serving both as a direct supplier and as a go-between for a wide variety of other contractors. This work has included IHC’s signing or helping to broker contracts for supplies ranging from portable generators to rations for U.N. peacekeeping troops in such trouble spots as West Africa and the Middle East.
IHC came under public scrutiny this summer, after FOX News broke the story on June 20 that IHC had maintained especially close ties with Alexander Yakovlev (), a Russian official in the U.N. procurement department, who while handling an IHC contract with the U.N. had obtained a job for his son with the company, and had also been channeling funds to a secret offshore bank account.
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One would think it would. It SHOULD!
Everywhere I look, there you are making sense... and being avoided like the plague. Having fun yet? ;)
I'll take that as a complement. Thanks!
I've learned a lot about the UN since reading this book, "The UN for Dummies. A Guide for UN-Americans."
Woops. I meant the word "compliment."
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Those that believe it will never allow it to be put to rest! They have not and will not, let facts get in the way of their anti-American, anti-military, anti-President Bush anti-WOT rants.
The UN authorized a 'police action' to resist the invasion of South Korea by Communist North Korea.
The armed forces of 16 countries participated.
I just wish that we could get that one fact out and admitted to by the left...
I just hate it when Kennedy, Levin, and others say there is NO WAY that Saddam was involved with Al-Queda before the war in Iraq....even though that would be the ONLY middle eastern country that DIDN'T have any involvement with AQ.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
There is a "Public Dialogue on Iraq War" next week. I hope to attend, but it isn't looking good at the moment. It will be interesting if this issue is raised.
LOL.
:D
"Public Dialogue on Iraq War", huh?
Well, that sounds like something that needs to be done on a national level...not just at schools.
There are so many things that need to be "set straight" about this War and then "reasons" for going to war..and I just bet if the American people had the truth, this whole bit by the dems and some Reps about bringing the troops home ASAP, the percentage of people that agree with those politicians would only be about 25% or so.
Just one thing that should be told...that doesn't even have anything to do with Iraq per se....the idea that a "new" government should be formed and have a constitution ratified "quicker" than it has is ridiculous....how long did it take for OUR country to go from the Dec. of Independence to our Constitution? wasn't it 11 years???
Unfortunately, in order to have a "dialogue" there has to be listeners as well as talkers...and I believe that the left and MSM only want to talk, not listen.
Here is a thread about the "dialogue" next week. Much easier than going into it here. ;*)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498925/posts
What is it going to take to get us out of the United Nations?
Why would you leave the security of America up to the United Nations.
I personally believe that the oil for food program money help finance the terriorist that did 9/11 in New York
"I'm trying to think of a single example of the UN doing something positive recently..."
Depending on your definition of "recently" the only thing I can think of is a book published by UNESCO in the early 60's on how to create an entire science lab with common household stuff--lightbulbs made into flasks, etc. I think it's been at LEAST that long since they did anything I'd consider positive.
And that really worked out oh so well, now didn't it. LOL
Reminder bump - Good Post. Thanks! :-)
ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=oilforfood
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ON THE NET...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173039,00.html
"U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda"
Friday, October 21, 2005
By Claudia Rosett and George Russell
NEW YORK
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ON THE NET...
http://www.memri.org/bin/search/search.cgi?nocpp=1&p%3Ats_udav=0&sort-method=3&Match=1&Terms=%22oil+for+food%22&Realm=All
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA20505
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 205
February 9, 2005 No.205
"MEMRI Senior Analyst's Testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations about the Volcker UN Oil-for-Food Report"
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA19304
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 193
October 27, 2004 No.193
"Saddam's Oil Vouchers Revisited"
By Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli*.
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http://memri.org/bin/media.cgi?ID=83004
"April 26, 2004, Federal News Service, 'The Iraq Oil For Food Program: Starving For Accountality'."
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA17204
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 172
April 21, 2004 No.172
"MEMRI Analyst's Testimony Before Congress on the U.N. 'Oil for Food' Scandal"
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA16404
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 164
February 20, 2004 No.164
"The Saddam Oil Vouchers Affair"
By Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli*.
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA16004
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 160
January 29, 2004 No.160
"The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270"
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iraq&ID=SP38202
Special Dispatch Series - No. 382
May 20, 2002 No.382
"Iraq Buys and Smuggles Its Way Out of UN Sanctions"
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You think a Communist capture of South Korea would be no big deal?
Forgive my asking, but I must know: what color of the sky in your world?
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