Posted on 11/13/2004 11:22:24 PM PST by crushelits
UNITED NATIONS -- Benon Sevan, the official accused of improperly receiving lucrative rights to purchase oil from Saddam Hussein's government while he was running the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, discouraged his staff from probing allegations of corruption and helped block efforts by the U.N. anti-corruption unit to assess where the program was vulnerable to abuse, according to senior U.N. officials.
Sevan said that such an assessment would prove too costly and that U.N. member governments bore primary responsibility for policing the program, according to senior U.N. officials and other former program members. He did initiate reviews of possible overcharging on some program contracts, reviews on which the U.N. Security Council took no action.
The disclosures, drawn from interviews with more than two dozen current and former U.N. officials and diplomats, follow a report last month by the top U.S. weapons inspector, Charles A. Duelfer, that Hussein personally approved the allocation of vouchers to Sevan, among about 270 other officials and businessmen, to sell millions of barrels of Iraqi crude at a profit of 10 cents to 35 cents a barrel.
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No, it can't be! /sarcasm
May? Bear may have defecated in the forest? Pope rumored to be Catholic?
I wonder if these reporters (Eric Shaun et al) know a lot more about this than they are letting on right now. I sense a big trap being set for Kofi and crew.
Let's send in Bill Clinton to clean things up, in the interest of bipartisanship, of course.
Wait till the real story of how our international "allies" were illegally profiting from this "Oil for Food " scandal.
The scope of this scandal dwarfs others like ENRON to the point that they are inconsequential. "Unilateral" will be made synonymous with "Virtuous". The dirty dogs at the UN and elsewhere are cowering in the face of certain discovery.
Wow...this story made it to the Post? Someone's gonna get fired over this.
From April 21, 2004 - Friends of Saddam (including Benon Savan, a Cypriot) http://www.acepilots.com/unscam/archives/000729.html
Another career UN statist. And get this: he was educated at Columbia's International and Public Affairs department!
I wonder if they have any ties to Anthropology, which spawned Nicolas de Genova, the "million mogadishus" seditionist.
Evidently the Washington Post and it's evil sister's are trying to edge towards a bit-o-truth. IOW cannot avoid the UN Crisis any longer?? Or maybe the agenda is changing. Never trust any of these RAGHEAD Journalistic fascist.
This kind of behavior is business as usual for the U.N.
This time they're getting called on it.
Where can I find a succinct history of UN's corruption, fecklessness, and betrayal of the west?
It's not succinct, but work back from the last of that "click the pic" and you'll find plenty. It's truly disgusting, and moreso since the MSM covers up & spins for them. Birds of a feather...
Thanks! I'm looking for info on the Korean war, specifically.
I wonder if these reporters (Eric Shaun et al) know a lot more about this than they are letting on right now. I sense a big trap being set for Kofi and crew.
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Me thinks your sniffer is working just fine.
Geeze, I hate diplomats. Parasites.
May?! And official is the singular?! ROTF!!!
Note to Mr. Sevan: Make your to Coleman's committee, ask for immunity, then spill your guts. Before somebody does it for you. In case you haven't noticed, guess who's being set up to be the fall guy?
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