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AP: Memo suggests Annan oil-for-food link
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/14/05 | AP - United Nations

Posted on 06/14/2005 9:26:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are "urgently reviewing" new information that suggests U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more about a contract that was awarded to the company that employed his son.

The December 1998 memo from Michael Wilson, then a vice president of Cotecna Inspections S.A., mentions brief discussions with Annan "and his entourage" during a summit in Paris in 1998. "We could count on their support," the memo said.

If accurate, the memo could contradict a major finding of the Independent Inquiry Committee - that there wasn't enough evidence to show that Annan knew about efforts by Cotecna, which employed his son, Kojo, to win a contract under oil-for-food. Cotecna learned it won the contract on Dec. 11, 1998.

The statement from the Independent Inquiry Committee, led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, said it would "conduct additional investigation regarding this new information."

In a statement released earlier Tuesday, Cotecna again denied that it committed any wrongdoing in obtaining the $10 million a year contract.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: annan; cotecna; link; memo; oilforfood; suggests
developing. :)
1 posted on 06/14/2005 9:26:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

That sound you heard was the other shoe dropping.


2 posted on 06/14/2005 9:29:11 AM PDT by Dog
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To: NormsRevenge

Guess the old shredder missed one .... LOL!


3 posted on 06/14/2005 9:30:04 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: NormsRevenge

Not surprising. Kofi's son has been linked. Just a matter of time for hard evidence to surface linking Kofi to his graft and corruption.


4 posted on 06/14/2005 9:30:29 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: NormsRevenge

French President Jacques Chirac, right, listens to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during a conference devoted to the so-called Global Compact, a voluntary charter of rules of ethics for businesses, Tuesday June 14, 2005 in Paris. (AP/Michel Euler)


5 posted on 06/14/2005 9:30:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are "urgently reviewing" new information that suggests U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more about a contract that was awarded to the company that employed his son.

BWAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

6 posted on 06/14/2005 9:31:28 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I hate Hurricane Season!)
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"information that suggests U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more about a contract that was awarded to the company that employed his son. "

Far more certain than Michael Jackson, and to a lesser degree OJ Simpson.

Neither Nor.

All three are guilty.

But, I guess It's The president's fault.

Kofi Annan and "The Corrupt" might intimidate the intimidated.

They don't intimidate me.

7 posted on 06/14/2005 9:34:09 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: NormsRevenge

I'm sure Paul Volcker will "take the ball and run with it".


8 posted on 06/14/2005 9:34:55 AM PDT by printhead
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To: Dog
That sound you heard was the other shoe dropping.

I hope you're right. He's like a dimocrap, dishonor and scandal are not enough to make him resign. He will weather this storm as well. We'll never be rid of that Bastard. If we have one hope...it's Bolton.

9 posted on 06/14/2005 9:35:00 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: NormsRevenge
This is nothing more than a plot by Karl Rove to get the media to pay attention to this memo instead of the real important memo that will get Bush impeached!

Just go ask any DUer

10 posted on 06/14/2005 9:40:07 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Phantom Lord

Well, I would not say that, but there are a lot of Bush defenders who say "Its just a memo, no big deal" about the Downing St. memo. Will those same people say that this is "just a memo, no big deal"?


11 posted on 06/14/2005 9:46:38 AM PDT by conserv13
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FRom BBC

Timeline: Oil-for-food scandal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4445609.stm

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Court delays UN oil-for-food case for 4th time

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422613/posts


12 posted on 06/14/2005 9:51:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I hope every time Kofi mentions Gitmo being closed, the investigative committee drops another document to show that Kofi was well aware of the UN Oil for Food scandal -- and a major part in it.


13 posted on 06/14/2005 10:26:12 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder why this story didn't mention that two senior investigators quit in protest that kofi was getting a free pass. I think that is very relevent.


14 posted on 06/14/2005 10:45:07 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/charterschoolsexplained.htm)
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To: traviskicks

> I wonder why this story didn't mention that two senior investigators quit in protest that [K]ofi was getting a free pass[?]

Sin.

The deviance of multiple voluteer collaborators actively engaged in the perpetuation of manifest vice and corruption.


15 posted on 06/14/2005 10:56:13 AM PDT by HKMk23 (The requirements of stewardship are NOT a mandate for stupidity.)
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