Posted on 12/14/2004 3:35:59 PM PST by keat
LAGOS, Nigeria, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Kojo, calls the inquiries into Iraq's oil-for-food program a U.S. Republican "witchhunt," CNN said Tuesday.
In a written statement to the network, the 31-year-old said: "I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations."
The oil-for-food program, administered by the United Nations, was designed to allow Iraq to sell oil and use the proceeds to buy food and medicine to offset the sanctions' impact on the Iraqi people.
The younger Annan once worked for Cotecna, a Swiss company that inspects commercial freight shipments. It was hired by the United Nations in 1998 to verify paperwork on imports purchased by Iraq with revenues from its oil exports.
Both Annans have denied any collusion, favoritism or profit-taking.
"I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda," the younger Annan said in his statement to CNN.
A group of Republican legislators has called for Kofi Annan to quit his U.N. post, although the Bush administration has expressed support in his leadership of the 191-nation body.
In a related story, Koko said that he was holding 4 million dollars and if CNN would send their bank account information he would transfer it to their account...
King/Drew hospital, Washington DC school Dist., Oakland School Dist., So. Africa, Zimbabwe, Haiti, on and on.
Kojo, calls the inquiries into Iraq's oil-for-food program a U.S. Republican "witchhunt," CNN said Tuesday.
"Both Annans have denied any collusion, favoritism or profit-taking."
Of course because where they come from baksheesh is a way of life, not a crime.
RE: "I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations."
Wow. I guess Cujo must have missed the memo when Daddy put him in charge of managing the program!
That is a viscious cannard and totally without foundation.
An internal UN investigation, that Secretary-General Coffee Anonymous oversaw, has proven beyond all doubt that the entire "Nigerian Scam" is a U.S. Republican plot to discredit Secretary General Coffee Anonymous' family, clan, tribe, and country, and has no foundation in fact.
"We have proven that the entire bogus email campaign can be traced to Republican operatives, who typically hide behind pseudonymns on the notorious Republican-Zionist Neo-con web-site, Free Republic. We will be presenting our llegations in the form of indictments afgainst these miscreants, to bring them before the International Court I pushed for exactly this purpose," Secretary Anonymous declared.
The anti-Americans always support the Democrats and oppose the Republicans, which is hardly surprising.
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