Monday, November 22, 2004

A Major Admission in re Food for Oil?



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The United Nations knew that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was stealing from the oil-for-food program - and, by extension, starving his own people - but did little to stop it, according to a special report by the BBC at the weekend.
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2 comments:

TheBitterAmerican said...

Mata! I can't believe it. I beat you to a scoop?
Check out today's news! Kofi Annan's son, Kojo Annan was making $$$ on the Iraqi food-for-oil deal long after it stopped!

Fri Nov 26, 05:17:00 PM PST
Alia said...

Ho TrekMedic251 -- Alia here... and clipping from an article:
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1BTU012E.html

Excerpt:

"There is nothing illegal in this," Eckhard said of the payments from the Swiss firm Cotecna. However, it was an embarrassing moment for the United Nations to have to admit that its earlier information was wrong.

Eckhard said that Kojo Annan's attorney told him that the younger Annan "continued to receive monthly payments beyond the end of 1999, when we previously thought they had ceased, through February 2004."

Eckhard acknowledged that the United Nations previously said that Kojo had stopped receiving monthly payments at the end of 1999.

Eckhard explained that Kojo worked under an open-ended no-compete contract, meaning when an employee leaves a company, he can receive payments to assure he won't set up a competing company doing the same work as the employer.
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rofl! "Embarassing moment". How about major OOpsie in finding out this very incriminating factoid. I can hear the flapping of buzzard wings riiiight now.. circling, circling...

Fri Nov 26, 06:43:00 PM PST

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