'SMOKING GUN' IN SADDAM'S OILY SCAM

New York Post ^ | 5/13/04 | NILES LATHEM

[kattracks]

May 13, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - U.N. investigators have arrived in Baghdad to look at "smoking gun" files that purportedly document wholesale bribery of U.N. officials and international political figures by Saddam Hussein, The Post has learned. Sources close to the probe said staffers of the U.N. commission, headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, were in Iraq to open a critical phase of the investigation into the oil-for-food program scandal.

[Jim Robinson]

And Kerry claims he could've smooth-talked the UN and the French, Gremans, Russians, et al, into joining a coalition to go after Saddam. Yeah, right. He and Gore probably smoke the same weed.

[backhoe]

Click the Pic:

[maryz]

It would be the first time since a Baghdad newspaper published a list of 270 international political and business figures who reportedly received sweetheart oil deals from Saddam's regime that investigators have been able to see firsthand evidence of bribery. . . .

. . . since the UN decided to stonewall, sending letters to companies involved warning them not to release documents to anyone the UN doesn't approve.

[piasa]

It would be the first time since a Baghdad newspaper published a list of 270 international political and business figures who reportedly received sweetheart oil deals from Saddam's regime that investigators have been able to see firsthand evidence of bribery.

From what I understand, that list is by no means complete.

[Dog]

Fyi..

[wayoverontheright]

From what I understand, that list is by no means complete.

Could this be the reason why EVERY PROMINENT DEMOCRAT was virulently opposed to going into Iraq without the UN?

We know that a prominent British pol had been contacted, and ACCEPTED, are we to believe the same solicitations weren't made of American pols?

[GailA]

MASTER LIST UN OIL/SEX FOR FOOD SCANDALS

[Dog]

There is another list that has just surfaced.....a member of the Iraqi Governing Council alluded to it just being found a couple of weeks ago.....it contains the names of journalists and personalties from around the world who were on the take.

[rwfromkansas]

Is it posted and translated anywhere?

[devolve]

TRUST JOHN KERRY


        _{THE VC DID}

[holden]

I guess this is why we hear this morning the SECDEF has gone to Iraq with his most senior lawyer staff.

The question is how to approach the response, however. I suppose there are dozens of top lawyers who will be working on the question of how to force the UN out of NY and to be disbanded. We can hardly face-down multiple on-the-take governments. We can do what we can to get the cooperation of international financial institutions to freeze assets of those under criminal indictment (den Haag?).

It's not going to be easy to defeat evil and corruption in the coming months and years. If ever there was a time we needed the country's best in government, here it comes.

HF

[devolve]

First November.

We will defund and bypass the leftie media.

[TiaS]

ping :)

[Tunehead54]

IIRC they were CASH payments. Anyone have more info?

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Bump! ;-)

[arasina]

Journalists? I wonder if Eason Jordan of CNN is "embedded" on that list somewhere.

The News We (CNN) Kept to Ourselves

If you didn't click on the link, here's what the news biz calls a "tease" ---

4/11/03 ATLANTA — Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.

[Brett66]

I'm sure Kofi's name will be part of that list. Will he be forced to step down? No, him and his crook cohorts will simply veto any afforts of the US to do that(if we would try). The UN 's a bunch of thieves and terrorist supporters. Kofi and cohorts are safe in their swamp.

[unixfox]

Anybody willing to bet that X42 made the list?

[Just mythoughts]

Show trials to begin in Iraq after June 30. This must be the reason why so many are doing so much to prevent this turnover.

[Ben Hecks]

Bump!

[MamaLucci]

This must be the reason why so many are doing so much to prevent this turnover.

No doubt......hysteria doesn't even begin to cover it.
The liberal left global village is in melt-down mode.

[Just mythoughts]

"No doubt......hysteria doesn't even begin to cover it.
The liberal left global village is in melt-down mode."


If only the French and the Russians had agreed to help clean up Iraq, they could have demanded to be in charge of Baghdad and burned alllll those documents and given Saddam that protection they promised.

[Izzy Dunne]

U.N. investigators have arrived in Baghdad to look at "smoking gun" files

How there were copies made...

[woofie]

Those on the left think that the UN should be calling the shots...As I understand the reports of the "Oil for Food" scam Saddam recieved about a $ billion or so. That money helped to empower a man and his sons who were directly involved in the torture and murder of thousands of innocent Iraqis in the same prisons we have been hearing about...Apologies anyone?

[OXENinFLA]

Suuuuuuuuuuuure JF'nK, lets go back to the UN.

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[Izzy Dunne]

I mean:
I HOPE there were copies made.

idiot

[StriperSniper]

I heard something on FNC about Bremer also holding things up complaining about how KPMG was chosen to do the auditing.

Remember, he's supposed to be joining Team Kerry after his job is done in Iraq.

P.S. - FNC says Rummy coming up live soon(maybe a few minutes, security concerns prevent an exact time until it happens).

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Anybody willing to bet that X42 made the list? "

Marc rich was on the list. Clinton pardoned Rich. Time to see who Hillary's donors are.

[arasina]

I doubt X42's involvement was direct, but through the X42-pardoned Marc Rich and his criminal oil enterprise.

[Shermy]

Check out this very good interview of Claudia Rosett.

http://cbn.org/CBNNews/News/040513a.asp

Post it as a thread if you like.

[texasflower]

We have three congressional committees looking at this. We have seven committees working on the abuse thing.

Someone please explain to me why we do this. (This is a sincere question.)

[crazycat]

I find it interesting that the prison scandal has blown up just now, despite being known about in January.

Surely it wasn't meant to distract from the Oil for Food scandal.......

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping