Posted on 06/20/2005 2:14:15 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
One of the mysteries shaping up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is, who is "KA"?
Those initials appear in the memo that surfaced last week, implicating Secretary-General Annan, apparently referred to in the document as "the SG," in the lobbying process with which a Swiss-based company, Cotecna Inspections SA, in late 1998 went about obtaining a fat U.N. oil-for-food contract. It did this while employing as a consultant the secretary-general's son, Kojo Annan.
If those initials, KA, refer to Kojo Annan - as an unnamed Cotecna official told the New York Times last week appears to be the case - then the senior Annan may have to explain how this squares with his statement to investigators and the public that he had no idea in late 1998 that Cotecna, while employing his son, was bidding on a U.N. contract to inspect oil-for-food imports into Saddam Hussein's U.N.-sanctioned Iraq.
The KA reference comes in the context of numerous evasions, denials, and - it now appears - overlapping travel agendas for the secretary-general and his son. While the secretary-general suggested last year that his son's business was confined to West Africa, and therefore could have had no bearing on the U.N.'s Iraq program, it now looks likely that in the three months just prior to Cotecna's winning the U.N. contract, Kofi and Kojo Annan met not in West Africa, where Kojo was based, but in at least three cities on three different continents, all at U.N.-related functions.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
It could also refer to Kofi Annan, aka the SG.
NOTHING will happen to Kofi or Koko, sadly. They are black and therefore untouchable.
Kofi and Kojo are affirmative action in action. So. Africa is so much better with apartheid gone and Zimbabwe is the future of Black Africa with leaders such as Kofi and Kojo how can the World go wrong.
How rotten does the apple have to be before you toss it in the trash??
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