U.N. BIG WILL TELL ALL ON OILY SCAM

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

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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.

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Yep, good point.

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OOO...the Kohfi Annan approved the UN to allocate funds to build an "Olympic statium for Oday Saddam Hussein"

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uh..."Staduim"...typing too fast

[Vermonter]

Who is this Ms. Pletka? She's reading her testimony so fast it's all but meaningless.

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Ms Pletka is doing an INCREDIBLE job...UN was aware of these illegal sanctions, Security Council resolution 97 made widespread abuse possible...Egyption contracts padded 23%, ...I think 60% Russian contracts had illegal surcharges...corruptions were common knowledge....Koffy knew...told about corruption he said "why do you care"

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He told her to hurry up...sp she's trying to fit as much into as little time as possible.

[Piranha]

How did you change from Quicktime? My computer does the same thing.

[kcvl]

bttt

[Vermonter]

I opened Realplayer and pasted in the link

[justshutupandtakeit]

Believe me if this guy held a high post at the UN then he was part of the French elite.

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Trying to figure out whether Raggle is playing apologist for the Clinton administration....sorta sounds it..."may not have been the right policy choice, but it was the best policy choice possible for two administration" ('course, one of the administrations he means is the one that topples Saddam)

[justshutupandtakeit]

You are full of shiite. Hyde is as great a patriot as sits in the Congress. Is this Bill in disguise?

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LOL...Rosett: "one of the problems I believe you will have is getting information out of the United Nations"..."Buried in material they kept secret"..UN being disengenius

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"10 billion in graft and smuggling, I believe that is a very conservative figure"..."UN not set up to enforce it's own resolutions".."two things receiving focus here are not all the problem"..."part of the problem in WSJ...Sadam's regime...secret deals...with approval of the United Nations"..."allegations here need to be proven, but focus should be on the mothership...billions in secret accounts"

[Vermonter]

Missed most of it. Phone call

[eyespysomething]

And then state's rights

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FOFLOL...SLAM!! "I recommend a full congressional investigation...this is the only body with the leverage...28 percent of OUR tax money, that YOU appropriate, goes to the UN"

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I'm really bad at posting the dialog. Have numerous windows open and multitasking, while also trying to get in some of the highlights on this thread.

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"Oil for food cut mortality in half, higher access to medical care, safe drinking water, electricity...It;s difficult to imagine what Iraq would look like today without it..." Um...who got the "safe drinking water? who got the electricity??" "We should have spoken out when the Iraqi government demanded kickbacks. We should have spoken out on these issues, but we did not. We should have spoken out when the Iraqi government threatened our staff. Ironically, I believe the UN became embrioled in this controversy" due to trying not to rock the boat or some such

[MamaLucci]

This ?SP Sousson guy is really laying it on the line....I wonder if he feared becoming a scapegoat?