Arms Report Targets Oil-For-Food Program (UN CRIME UPDATE)

AP WIRE via kansas.com ^ | Wed, Oct. 06, 2004 | DESMOND BUTLER

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Will this make the MSM ?

[Cornpone]

I can't post the article because of copyright restrictions but my newsletter from The Economist today contains a story that Israel has alledged that UN ambulances are being used to transport Qassam rockets by Palestinians attacking the Sderot settlement outside of the Gaza strip. Sounds like UN programs and property are being used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. Of course, there will be a UN investigation.

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17.09.2004 - 08:38 CET | By Richard Carter

The house of veteran French eurosceptic, Charles Pasqua, was searched yesterday (16 September) in connection with bribery allegations.

Mr Pasqua is under investigation for a loan of 450,000 euro, given to him by the Banque Populaire de Chypre (Cyprus) to finance his 2002 Presidential campaign. Noulis Pavlopoulos, Secretary-General of Mr Pasqua's party - the Rassemblement pour la France (RPF) is under investigation for money laundering in connection with this case, according to French daily Liberation.

During the last Parliamentary term (1999-2004), Mr Pasqua was the President of the UEN political group (Union for a Europe of Nations) but he lost his seat in the 2004 elections, also losing his immunity from prosecution.

But he is a candidate for election to the French senate, which takes place on 26 September. If he is successful, he will have a renewed immunity.

Mr Pasqua insists there is nothing irregular about the loans.

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AFP - 27 Sept 2004

Among the victors was the former interior minister and veteran Gaullist Charles Pasqua, who won a Senate seat in the Hauts-de-Seine department west of Paris.

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[11th_VA]

Mr Pasqua, known as France's number one policeman during his days as a tough, no-nonsense interior minister, is at the centre of various judicial investigations.

These involve allegations of illicit arms sales to Angola, the improper granting of casino licences to associates, a housing project fraud and irregularities in the funding of his former party, the RPF.

Your UN tax dollars at work ...

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"Will this make the MSM ?"

**SNORT** have any of the leggy news bombshells revealed about the UN blood for oil vouchers scam ever gotten so much as a 30 second nod from the MSM?

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"I can't post the article because of copyright restrictions but my newsletter from The Economist today contains a story that Israel has alledged that UN ambulances are being used to transport Qassam rockets by Palestinians attacking the Sderot settlement outside of the Gaza strip."

Yesterday, the Israeli government said a bunch of UN emplyees had been arrested for aiding Pali terrorists.

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If Chirac ever loses an election, he'll lose HIS immunity from prosecution too. Gotta love the French. Everyone thinks politicians are generally crooks, but in France, the only way for a crook to protect himself from prosecution is to become a politician.

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[Darksheare]

They should call it the oil for weapons program..

[yonif]

Palestinians attacking the Sderot settlement

Sderot is not a "settlement," it is a city.

[Cornpone]

I stand corrected...it was dinner time and I was in a hurry..

[M. Peach]

Can anyone tell me why the White House never brings this up as the reason why we were not able to get coalition help? Even Cheney didn't mention it the other night.

[Maigret]

Will this make the MSM?

No, you don't understand there are no liberal leftist scandals, so the UN can do whatever it wants to whomever it wants and only FOX news will do a story on it. And then they'll be decried as biased.

From Sandy Berger stuffing classified docs down his drawers or in his socks, to the UN pillaging and plundering, to the Clintons crimes, just remember, pass on by folks, there is nothing to be seen here.

[Cornpone]

"The (UN, added) agency’s chief, Peter Hansen, insists that the object was in fact a stretcher and has accused Israel of putting his staff at risk by spreading “falsehoods”. However, he has admitted that some of the UNRWA’s staff (most of whom are Palestinians) belong to Hamas. Mr Hansen argues that Hamas is a political group and that not all its members are active militants." Excerpt from The Economist Global Agenda Alert newsletter (email), 6 Oct 04.

[GailA]

MASTER LIST UN OIL/SEX FOOD SCANDALS

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Will this make the MSM ?

It has.
1,070 Google news hits as of this posting

Click on the link below ..
... and see that number grow

Google News {"Oil for Food" cia OR Iraq OR UN}

The question is: What will the left-justified press make of it?
{probably merit it a placing on page a16.}

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