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Oil-for-Food Official May Have Blocked Inquiries
washingtonpost.com ^ | Sunday, November 14 | Colum Lynch

Posted on 11/13/2004 11:22:24 PM PST by crushelits

Head of U.N. Program in Iraq Accused of Improperly Accepting Purchasing Rights.

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: benonsevan; blocked; bookhimdano; frenchbribes; inquiries; lurchgate; official; oilforfood; sevan; socialistcrooks; uncorruption; unscandal
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To: iopscusa
The mainstream media is changing for sure.

It is handing the torch of delivering truth to America to us, only because we are ripping it out of their cold dead hands!

FREE REPUBLIC IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA!


21 posted on 11/14/2004 4:40:40 AM PST by Enduring Freedom (Leftist Traitorous Weasels Are NOT 'Progressive' - they are Domestic Terrorists)
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To: CBart95

I can probably be correct in saying the democrate were probably on board with this too. The UN should be bulldozed into the heap of rubble for which it truly has evolved. UN = the hate America commie complex.


22 posted on 11/14/2004 5:26:14 AM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: Robert Lomax
In Mama-T's language: The UN is full of a bunch of US hating SCUMBAGS! Of course she would never call that leftist organization that, but I will!!
23 posted on 11/14/2004 5:35:08 AM PST by notkerry
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To: risk
UN's corruption, fecklessness, and betrayal of the west? Started in 1948, didn't really gain steam in America till the enviro whack movement (get the useful idiots to do the job for you). If you go to my Profile page and go to links, it's listed in in the U.N. section, or click here. Probably more than you may want to know.....





Get US Out of the UN Now!
24 posted on 11/14/2004 6:08:25 AM PST by Issaquahking ( Bush won, Arafat is dead! Life is good!)
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To: risk

We have an entire forum devoted to the UN schmucks over at our conservative news site:

http://p074.ezboard.com/fthegoodthebadandtheugly49488frm72

You can read all you want, but must be registered (for free; it's an EZ Board) to post. Freepers are most definately welcome! :)


25 posted on 11/14/2004 6:19:40 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: crushelits

Put his balls in a vise and broadcast the results on BBC World.


26 posted on 11/14/2004 6:24:39 AM PST by thoughtomator (The Era of Old Media is over! Long live the Pajamasphere!)
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To: Earthdweller

Unless they realize they are caught and are going to turn to their next trick--throw someone to the pack to let the others escape!


27 posted on 11/14/2004 7:11:10 AM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: crushelits

Sevon belongs in a prison cell in Baghdad.


28 posted on 11/14/2004 7:12:52 AM PST by Starrgaizr
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To: crushelits
MIDI - FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD

We'd debate in the U.N....goodness, here we go again
All we saw was their stonewalling

This one really takes the cake...many had been on the take
All those scumbags should be falling

Marc Rich had been where he shouldn't have been
Thanks to Bill, he would get away clean

And we're ready for major league *ss kicking now
That is nothing like we've ever seen

Food, oil for food...the U.N. was scamming
Kofi, you are toast...FOX News says it damning

No wonder they voted NO...money had been flowing
They hoped that their bank accounts kept on growing

Food, oil for food...10 billion they'd gather
This story does not...interest Mr. Rather

Saddam had paid terrorists...connect all the dots

It's food...oil for food...they are so screwed...oil for food

Food, oil for food...the U.N. was scamming
Kofi, you are toast...FOX News says it damning

Money had bought weapons that killed some of our soldiers
Chirac, we should make sure you don't grow older

Food, oil for food...10 billion they'd gather
This story does not...interest Mr. Rather

Saddam had paid terrorists...connect all the dots

It's food...oil for food...oil for food...they are so screwed...oil for food
Oil for food...they are screwed

29 posted on 11/14/2004 8:36:35 AM PST by doug from upland (Vietnam Vets: FINALLY -- welcome home, heroes)
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To: crushelits

Bundle him up and send him to Iraq and let the new Iraqi government try him for crimes against their children.


30 posted on 11/14/2004 9:29:37 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: crushelits

Quick! Bring me my smelling salts!


31 posted on 11/14/2004 11:04:53 AM PST by MEG33 ( Congratulations President Bush!..Thank you God. Four More Years!)
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To: Issaquahking

Am specifically looking for information on the Korean War and the UN's treachery, which had allegedly began then.


32 posted on 11/14/2004 12:33:36 PM PST by risk
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To: crushelits
Be sure not to miss this on Mon., and then there a House Commettiee meeting on Wed.(I think)

Coleman to Hold Hearing: “How Saddam Hussen Abused the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program” [MN]

33 posted on 11/14/2004 12:38:05 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: crushelits
Oil-for-Food Official May Have Blocked Inquiries

May?

Clauia Rosette (sp?) has covered this for a year for The Wall Street Journal and
be just about a weekly guest on The Hugh Hewitt Show (www.hughhewitt.com or www.krla870.com).

This is only news to the purposefully deaf-dumb-and-blind MSM.
34 posted on 11/14/2004 12:38:28 PM PST by VOA
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To: OXENinFLA
The title should be changed to:

Coleman to Hold Hearing:

How the UN Abused the Iraqi People in the Oil-for-Food Program”

35 posted on 11/14/2004 12:58:24 PM PST by crushelits
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To: crushelits

The US Republican party vs. the UN reminds me of a scene from Star Wars, where the phrase from the world's people is "please help us......you're our only hope".


36 posted on 11/14/2004 1:08:40 PM PST by kipita (Rebel – the proletariat response to Aristocracy and Exploitation.)
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To: risk

Some interesting reading at:

www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/archives/

Have fun.


37 posted on 11/14/2004 3:12:23 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: crushelits
A "the U.N. is a den of liars, spies and thieves" bump.

5.56mm

38 posted on 11/14/2004 3:17:09 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: crushelits
Anybody want to lay wager that nothing will come of this?

Based on other things the U.N. has done and what OUR government hasn't done, my guess is this will fade away and nothing more comes from it.

Unless of course WE do something about it. i.e. Tell OUR effing government to get us the hell out of the U.N.!!


39 posted on 11/14/2004 4:16:23 PM PST by unixfox (Close the borders, problems solved!)
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To: JudyinCanada

I didn't see anything on the Korean War (where supposedly it all started) at http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/archive/.


40 posted on 11/14/2004 4:24:12 PM PST by risk
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