Posted on 04/01/2006 7:01:02 AM PST by rellimpank
Meet Benon Sevan, the man at the center of the Oil for Food scandal.
NICOSIA, Cyprus--"Medium or sweet?" asks Benon Sevan. He is inquiring how much sugar I would like in the Turkish coffee he's boiling up for us on his kitchen stove, and I am torn between thanking him for his hospitality and wondering if he might poison the refreshments. For the past three years, we have had a somewhat fraught connection, via a shared interest in the biggest corruption scandal ever to hit the United Nations--he as a star suspect, and I in writing about it. So when, together with a traveling companion, I paid a surprise visit on a recent Sunday afternoon to Mr. Sevan's current home--here in the capital of his native Cyprus--I really had little hope that he would do anything but slam the door on me
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None of the guilty parties involved in blood for oil vouchers will ever be prosecuted. We've all heard the Clintonista's "no controlling legal authority" mantra. The UN is the epitome of that.
Good article.
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