[Lion in Winter]

NO MORE OIL FOR UNITED NATIONS POLITICANS... NO MORE OIL FOR UN POLITICIANS...

Say it loud and say it proud!!

Wouldn't that make a great chant for Freepers to use against anti-war bush-haters?

[backhoe]

-"No Blood for Oil"- Kojo & Kofi: Unbelievable U.N. stories--

[Prince Charles]

Blood is thicker than oil!

[Amelia]

Good to see this getting more coverage. I thought the press was going to ignore it.

[LongsforReagan]

Cujo?

[kcvl]

indictment of Robert Massey the Managing Director of Cotecna who was working in close collaboration with SGGs and the Bhuttos causing huge loses to the national exchequer of Pakistan on the charges of money laundering in Switzerland.

[mass55th]

Hmm. That's interesting. When I did a search yesterday, Cotecna was listed as having a field office at the bombed Baghdad hotel.

[mewzilla]

Here's a link to a list of Saddamn's oil bribes.

[FreeAtlanta]

"What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...", Coffee Airhead

[MizSterious]

FYI--nice that others are catching on, eh?

[aShepard]

Well, well. The media is finally decided to give the WSJ article legs - only a week later.

I've been waiting to hear about this on the Today show, the Nightly News, but now the cat is finally out of the bag, hell, even the New York Slimes had an op-ed piece about it yesterday

[pax_et_bonum]

pinggggggg

[cyncooper]

the notoriously corrupt Iraq oil-for-food program, raising new questions about the role of top diplomats in the growing bribery scandal.

Glad to see this referred to as "growing scandal" and that it has hit the NY Post.

[liberallarry]

The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Is he related to Bush's 2nd cousin?

[bray]

$Million will buy alot of Coffee!! I bet Dan Rather Old will be all over this tonite. No wait, W looked at somebody the wrong way!

Pray for W and The Truth

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Why O' Why do we keep squandering our tax dollars on this Union of Thieves and Parasites, the UN? Notice how OBL did not fly his planes into the UN building? He knows who his friends are.

[cake_crumb]

"The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan worked for a company the United Nations hired to police the notoriously corrupt Iraq oil-for-food program, raising new questions about the role of top diplomats in the growing bribery scandal."

No UNapproved blood for oil....

[thatcher]

But questions have arisen about how Cotecna managed to get the contract when its CEO, Robert Massey, was, at the time, under indictment in Switzerland in a bribery and money laundering case involving former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Cotecna offered a bid that was $1 million lower than any of its 13 competitors.

Charges of corruption, smuggling and delivery of rotten food have been leveled against the program.

[InterceptPoint]

But questions have arisen about how Cotecna managed to get the contract when its CEO, Robert Massey, was, at the time, under indictment in Switzerland in a bribery and money laundering case involving former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

What a stupid question.

Anyone with half a brain can see that Robert Massey had the only important qualification required to win this contract, namely the willingness to pay the necessary bribes. Why this would raise quesions is beyond me. Don't people realize how business is done when you are dealing with other peoples money and, most importantly, are a member of the Officially Annointed Elite. This is simply Entitlement Major, a natural right of the U.N. Kings.