U.N. BIG WILL TELL ALL ON OILY SCAM

New York Post ^ | 4/28/04 | Niles Lathem

[kattracks]

April 28, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - A former manager in the scandal-scarred oil for food program will tell Congress today how top U.N. officials running the program deliberately looked the other way, congressional officials said last night.

Frenchman Michael Soussan, a former program coordinator for the $100 billion fund, is expected to be the star witness of a House International Relations Committee hearing looking into Saddam's gigantic $10.1 billion rip-off.

[Oorang]

The article says he now lives in New York. A Frenchman, squealing on the U.N., living in New York. Can it get any more bizarre?

[Vermonter]

Anyone have ant luck getting the committee's live link to work?

http://boss.streamos.com/real-live/hir/4321/34_hir-liveweb_030114.smi

I get an error message 'Unsupported transport'

[leadpenny]

Just started on Live Webcast. Hyde announced that Cong. Rohrbacker, (R-CA) would not be present. His wife gave birth to triplets last night.

[Vermonter]

ant=any

[leadpenny]

Yes, go to the link at 18

[cake_crumb]

Egad, he's sitting there saying the "UN has been correctly credited with saving Iraqi lives" and "alleged organized theft"!

[Eva]

Did you see the suggestion on Best of the Web, that Bush appoint Rudy Guliani as the delegate to the UN? They said that Rudy would make quick work of this oil for food scandal and that his over zealous prosecution style would be an asset.

[Vermonter]

That's the link I can't get to work

[cake_crumb]

It works. Try again.

[leadpenny]

About an hour ago it told me it was not available and to come back later. About 15 minutes ago it but up the committee logo and then came on automatically about 5 minutes ago.

[Vermonter]

Got it, thanks. For some reason, it was trying to play in Quicktime instead of Realplayer

[leadpenny]

Lantos spent the first two minutes of his opening remarks defending the UN.

[cake_crumb]

Blaming Bush State Department....not a word about the Clinton administration. Had a feeling was gonna be a farce. looks like it IS one.

[cake_crumb]

Yep...that's when I got the feeling this would be a farce.

[Vermonter]

Well, that's that. Lantos has just assured us that kofi has everything under control, so let's move on

[cake_crumb]

'Bout time he stopped the "we might have been guilty but it's the US State Department's fault"...not that I have a high opinion of State.

[RipSawyer]

"UN oil for food-- two degrees from Gorelick?"

Anyone with a family name as horribly repulsive as Gore-lick should be banished to Siberia for not changing it! Think of all the connotations! Uuuuuggly!

[cake_crumb]

"No US taxpayer money was used. None" (I find that hard to believe; US taxpayer dollars pay UN dues) ...go to NPR website, they'll tell you the truth...tweny seconds over, implying Halliburton is more guilty than those complicit in the blood money for oil scam.

[Vermonter]

Hyde did a good job in responding to this nonsense by pointing out that US funds were needed to make up for stolen Iraqi oil revenues

[cake_crumb]

"The Kurds were the targets of discrimination by UN oil for food representatives" "The people of Iraq did not receive anything near what was their right"...examples: new hospital, funds allocated in 1998, "hospital has yet to be built"...couldn't understand that part...but something about a hospital receiving not enough money, causeing deaths