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To: LibSnubber

Good grief. AIM missed the BIG one.

The UN Oil-for-Food scandal. While receiving some mention (often as a Republican-initiated attack), the full details have not been exposed. Fox News had a pretty good special on it, but was largely ignored by the old media.


3 posted on 12/15/2004 7:32:10 AM PST by kidd
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"The Oil-for-Food program is now being probed by the Justice Department and Congress as a boondoggle that enriched Saddam Hussein and others. A report delivered last week by Charles Duelfer found that Saddam was able to "subvert" the $60 billion U.N. Oil-for-Food program to generate an estimated $1.7 billion in revenue outside U.N. control from 1997-2003. [...]"
4 posted on 12/15/2004 7:42:40 AM PST by Critical Bill
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