If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Posted on 08/07/2005 7:54:11 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
The former head of the scandal-tainted oil-for-food program resigned from the United Nations on Sunday, hours before he is expected to be accused of getting kickbacks from the $67 billion operation.
A U.N.-established Independent Inquiry Committee, led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, plans to release on Monday its third interim report on allegations of corruption in the humanitarian program for Iraq, which began in 1996 and ended in 2003.
Benon Sevan, the former executive director of the program, is to be accused of getting cash for steering Iraqi oil contracts to an Egyptian trader and of refusing to cooperate with the Volcker panel, his attorney Eric Lewis said. Sevan has denied the allegations.
On Sunday, Lewis distributed a letter from Sevan, 67, to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan resigning from his current job, which he was given after he retired.
The $1-a-year post carries immunity and was meant to ensure he would cooperate with the probe. But Sevan may have preempted a dismissal from this arrangement as the United Nations in the past has taken action against staff fingered in the Volcker report.
Sevan blamed the secretary-general and his staff for not defending the program and making him a scapegoat.
"I fully understand the pressure that you are under, and that there are those who are trying to destroy your reputation as well as my own, but sacrificing me for political expediency will never appease our critics or help you or the Organization," Sevan wrote.
He said that the program, which supplied food and other goods to 27 million Iraqis, was often caught between conflicting mandates given by the U.N. Security Council, which supervised it, and national interests of those trying to do business with Iraq.
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Lemme guess, he wants to spend more time with his family.
Looks as though even the treat of Bolton cleaning up the UN has sent this one to the door.
There's a new sheriff in town.
Treat=threat....Man do these eyes need some sleep....
The lapdog craven US news media will ignore this story to continue to obsessively count every US casualty in Iraq and to report continue to smear Karl Rove.
DId you see this?
No, I hadn't; had a big wedding all week; I'm totally out of it!
Thanks.
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
One step closer to Koffi.
Well, well, can we hope that Kofi is next, or is he just too "powerful" to be touched?
Doesn't ANYONE know how to write a coherent sentence any more?
Snort.
I guess even a Volker whitewash can't get all the oil stains out.
The same liberals that immediately called for the heads of all Enron executives to roll are all mysteriously silent when it comes to the biggest financial scandal in world history perpetrated by this band of thugs and corrupt anti-American third world dictators at the UN.
If you have not already done so, please sign the petition to get the stinking, corrupt to the core UN out of the USA. Let's help relocate these anti-American thugs to some 3rd world shithole where they belong.
http://moveamericaforward.org/?Page=Petition
Yeah, and his "family" lives in a vault at a Swiss bank.
He is in his native country of Cyprus. Hiding in his bunker?
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