To: quidnunc
The wisest move by the U.N., the U.S., or any other authority with full access to these records, would be to make them fully public thus recruiting help from observers worldwide, not least the media, in digging through the hazardous waste left by Oil-for-Food.
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Yeah, like that's going to happen when many at the UN had their fat fingers in the cookie jar themselves.
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One was the U.N. decision to allow Saddam to choose his own buyers of oil and suppliers of goods an arrangement that Annan himself helped set up during negotiations in Baghdad in the mid-1990s, shortly before he was promoted to Secretary-General.
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Somebody should definitely follow the money on that one. I'd be willing to bet that ol' Koffi made millions on that deal.
8 posted on
04/19/2004 11:55:02 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
To: nutmeg
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10 posted on
04/19/2004 11:56:22 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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