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Kofi Annan's son implicated in Oil for Food!
Foxnews on air ^ | 3/11/04 | Foxnews

Posted on 03/11/2004 9:23:20 AM PST by highlander_UW

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To: highlander_UW
Kofi Annan's son is also involved with ROBERT MUGABE!!!

http://archives.californiaaviation.org/airport/msg07877.html

Kofi Annan's Son Linked to 75m Harare Airport Deal
Africa News Service


Lagos (This Day, May 8, 2000) - Kojo Annan sounded tetchy. "I want to make
it very clear, to avoid speculation about my father," he said. "When Air
Harbour was awarded airport contract I was not on its board of directors."

The defensiveness of the son of United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan
was understandable. Sunday Business has learnt he is a director of the
offshore company that benefited from what Zimbabwe's opposition alleges is
the country's most notorious act of cronyism.

It is a bizarre tale involving a wayward nephew of president Robert Mugabe,
the son of a former Saudi oil minister, as well as the son of the UN chief.
It is set against the backdrop of a Pounds75 million contract to redevelop
Harare International Airport, the little-known Isle of Man-registered
company that won it, and Mugabe's new mansion.

And it is a story that may yet present the UN secretary-general with
difficulties in dealing with Mugabe as a rising tide of violence sweeps
Zimbabwe.

Last Sunday, Annan's son was keen to emphasis that he did not become a
director of Air Harbour Technologies until ate last year - four years after
its victory in the Harare airport tender caused an outcry in Zimbabwe. But
he was less keen to elaborate on the nature of his involvement with the
company.

Speaking on a mobile phone in his native Ghana, Kojo Annan denied having a
shareholding in Air Harbour, or drawing a salary. He added: "I have
director's fees. I mean, any director of any company gets fees."

But when asked how much he is paid, he said: "Do you really think I'm going
to answer that? I told you I have no further comment. I'm not going to
answer that."

The youngest of Kofi Annan's three children and the son from his first
marriage, Kojo is based in Accra, Ghana, and in Lagos, Nigeria, his mother's
home country. He is a partner in a Lagos firm of consultants called Sutton
Investments, which is involved in development projects. The 26-year-old's
business activities raised eyebrows last year when it emerged that a client
had won the Pounds6 million contract to monitor the UN's "oil-for-food"
programme in Iraq.

Geoffrey Lipman, Air Harbour's chief executive, said: "As a board member,
Kojo passes comment on all of our activities." He stressed that the company
had no relationship with Kofi Annan or the UN.


(SNIP)
61 posted on 03/11/2004 9:48:12 AM PST by adam_az (Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
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To: hchutch
Read Mo's link in 48; the money was deposited in FRENCH BANDS..........ROFLMAO.......the oil for food money was IN THEIR BANKS......and they were making a HUGE amount of money off of it....and so was the UN, not even counting what they were SKIMMING........

Is it any wonder the UN and France didn't want to go to war with Iraq?

This is RICH!
62 posted on 03/11/2004 9:48:20 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!
63 posted on 03/11/2004 9:48:53 AM PST by tsmith130
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To: Howlin
Kofi, Kojo, doesn't he have a daughter named Koko and a dog named Kujo?
64 posted on 03/11/2004 9:49:02 AM PST by MCRD
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To: GailA
Story here. Of course, the AP reports the story without mention she's an aid to Carol Mosley-Braun.

FNC has picked it up however.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095509/posts
65 posted on 03/11/2004 9:49:52 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: highlander_UW
Thank you...heard this on Fox.

No surprise, except a pleasant one that it is emerging into the open.

66 posted on 03/11/2004 9:50:18 AM PST by cyncooper ("an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm" GWB 1/20/01)
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To: highlander_UW
Kofi Annan's son works for Halliburton?
67 posted on 03/11/2004 9:50:38 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: Howlin
NO KIDDING! I've been saying this for at LEAST a year! I'm thrilled that it's coming out now!

Can you imagine Kerry as President, with our troops under the control of Clinton, SecGen of UN? I've long thought that was Clinton's aim, to be SecGen--and with Kerry as President, we would all be fodder...America would be raped, killed, lost forever...

OOOOOOOOH! God condemn these evil men!

68 posted on 03/11/2004 9:50:49 AM PST by Judith Anne (Is life a paradox? Well, yes and no...)
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To: hchutch
Thanks for the ping.
69 posted on 03/11/2004 9:50:58 AM PST by Dog (Bin Laden your account to America is past due......time to pay up.)
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To: Howlin
Say it ain't so, Kofi!

(Is Hans Blix going to be implicated before we're done?)
70 posted on 03/11/2004 9:51:22 AM PST by cyncooper ("an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm" GWB 1/20/01)
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To: Howlin
Kofi Caught in Cookie Jar,

The U.N. must be disbanded

71 posted on 03/11/2004 9:51:38 AM PST by MJY1288 (There's no leaders on the path of least resistance, ask John Kerry, he's been paving it for 32 yrs.)
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To: Gothmog
Outstanding find!
72 posted on 03/11/2004 9:52:03 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: highlander_UW

Say it ain't so!

73 posted on 03/11/2004 9:52:40 AM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: Howlin
pagemark for after lunch reading.
74 posted on 03/11/2004 9:52:56 AM PST by Maigrey (D°°° those Jews for being a part of God's plan to save my eternal soul! - Ann Colture)
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To: highlander_UW
Oh, no, (mock shock and horror and said with a whine) if we don't hear it on ABCNNBCBS it can't, just CAN'T be true.

What a scumbag. And pointing the finger of blame at Bush. While people starve. Yep, he's are perfect for the UN and his son is a chip off the old block. I guess it's true what they say about a guilty conscience.

75 posted on 03/11/2004 9:53:42 AM PST by fortunecookie
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To: MJY1288
I think the UN is about to fall real soon. This maybe the straw the broke the camels back.
76 posted on 03/11/2004 9:54:16 AM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Oh! No! Kojo! Tell me it isn't true! You know the high regard I've always had for the UN and the elites who run it! Not!

Jesse Jackson must be overwrought about this.

Well, we know now that if George W hadn't taken action to remove Saddam, you would still be collecting millions. Time to get you, your scumbag father and the whole corrupt UN out of the US and the US out of the UN.
77 posted on 03/11/2004 9:54:30 AM PST by RightWingConspirator (Glad that Ted and Hillary and John Fonda Kerry are not my senators.)
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To: Judith Anne
I agree. This has been a long, agonizing wait for us, hasn't it?????

And don't even THINK about your scenario. We have to fight like HELL to make sure that doesn't happen.
78 posted on 03/11/2004 9:55:01 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: KevinDavis
Are you serious, or is that wishful thinking?
79 posted on 03/11/2004 9:55:41 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Ok, now. You need to identify that pic as a 'photoshopped' pic. Otherwise, you might confuse the New York Times, and G_d knows, they've had enough confusion this last year or so.

lol

The Camera Never Lies, but the Software Can [NY Times says conservative photoshop owners are EVIL!]
80 posted on 03/11/2004 9:56:00 AM PST by TomGuy
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