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To: purpleland

Jackson Hole is in Wyoming.


46 posted on 01/01/2005 12:31:18 PM PST by keats5
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To: keats5

I thought so all the time. (!)
Thanks for the geography correction.
Just caught this report on www.foxnews.com

Oil-for-Food Used for Money Laundering?
Saturday, December 18, 2004
•French Bank Targeted in Oil-for-Food Scam•House Panel Probes Oil-for-Food Scandal
•Bush: Taxpayers Deserve [Purpleland says "WE DEMAND"!]U.N. Accounting
•U.N. Rejects Call for Annan's Resignation•State Dept. Endorses Senate Probe of U.N. Oil-for-Food Program•Panel: 248 Companies Received Iraq's Oil•Oil-for-Food Scandal Key to CIA Report
WASHINGTON — The already controversial U.N. Oil-for-Food (search) program may also have been a vast international money-laundering scheme involving potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, documents reviewed by FOX News suggest.

Bank records obtained by a congressional panel investigating the Oil-for-Food program raise questions about the role of French bank BNP Paribas as well as the actions of United Nations officials given the task of administering the program.

Those documents reveal that during the summer of 2003, federal regulators investigated 80 BNP wire transfers and found indications of money laundering in three of them involving $9 million dollars...


48 posted on 01/01/2005 3:23:05 PM PST by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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