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Oil-For-Food Chief Accused of Kickbacks
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/8/05 | Nick Wadhams - AP

Posted on 08/08/2005 9:37:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 08/08/2005 9:37:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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A real surprise, huh? I wonder if they're going to get Kofi and his son before it's all over?

Carolyn

2 posted on 08/08/2005 9:39:12 AM PDT by CDHart (The world has become a lunatic asylum and the lunatics are in charge.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Paul Volcker was just on Fox laying it down..

Benon Sevan and a few others..You are the weakest links..

Buh BYe!!


3 posted on 08/08/2005 9:39:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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Sevan, a Cypriot citizen believed to be in Nicosia, was being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Gee, why not Eliot Spitzer's office? Paging the AG...

4 posted on 08/08/2005 9:39:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: CDHart

Hope so...


5 posted on 08/08/2005 9:39:50 AM PDT by brivette
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To: NormsRevenge

How about the 661 Committee? Anyone talked to those people yet?


6 posted on 08/08/2005 9:40:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: CDHart

A real surprise, huh? I wonder if they're going to get Kofi and his son before it's all over?
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I sure hope so --- they are dirty criminals. What more can you say? Kickbacks for starving Iraqis...great bunch of murderers in their own right.


7 posted on 08/08/2005 9:40:54 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: CDHart

LOL.. Not if Volcker can help it. (/whoknows?) ;-)

More reports about Kofi and Kid to come out this fall..

Could be a lot of lumps of coal in UN Xmas stockings this Yule Season. :)


8 posted on 08/08/2005 9:41:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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Sevan got kickbacks for steering contracts under oil-for-food to a small trading company called African Middle East Petroleum Co. Ltd. Inc.

What? Not Halliburton? I'm shocked!

9 posted on 08/08/2005 9:42:12 AM PDT by neodad (I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way)
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The UN-appointed panel probing the scandal-tainted oil-for-food program for Iraq, headed by Paul Volcker, seen here, was expected in a new report to accuse the former head of the aid scheme of receiving kickbacks and refusing to cooperate with the investigation(AFP/File/Don Emmert)


10 posted on 08/08/2005 9:42:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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What a despicable organization.


11 posted on 08/08/2005 9:42:46 AM PDT by Rosemont
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Benon Sevan, head of the oil-for-food program, speaks to reporters after Security Council consultations on the Iraq oil-for-food program at United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Sevan, the former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food program, resigned from the U.N. Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005, a day before investigators were to release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks under the $64 billion humanitarian operation. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda, File)


12 posted on 08/08/2005 9:43:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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But there were Americans involved in Oil For Food, too. They don't have diplomatic immunity. Only one has been prosecuted. How about the rest...?
13 posted on 08/08/2005 9:44:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: NormsRevenge

Really??????? I am shocked, shocked I say.

Next thing, we will be reading that the French have been taking kickbacks too.

Oh! That would just be all to shocking!


(did i mention that i would be shocked? )

:)


14 posted on 08/08/2005 9:44:18 AM PDT by saveliberty (Those who forget how Congress can waste your money are doomed to supply it with even more)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hope he stays away from elevator shafts...


15 posted on 08/08/2005 9:44:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: CDHart

Before this is over a lot of former UN officials will be living in Tunis.


16 posted on 08/08/2005 10:14:25 AM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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"As I predicted, a high-profile investigative body invested with absolute power would feel compelled to target someone and that someone turned out to be me," Sevan wrote. "The charges are false, and you, who have known me for all these years, should know that they are false."

That statement is just so... so... uh, 'Clintonian' is the word that I was searching for.

17 posted on 08/08/2005 10:32:39 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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"Could be a lot of lumps of coal in UN Xmas stockings this Yule Season. :)"

I hope so.

Carolyn

18 posted on 08/08/2005 10:37:58 AM PDT by CDHart (The world has become a lunatic asylum and the lunatics are in charge.)
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To: Tom Jefferson; backhoe; BARLF; timestax; imintrouble; cake_crumb; Brad's Gramma; MizSterious; ...
Investigators probing claims of wrongdoing in the Iraq oil-for-food program accused its former chief, Benon Sevan, of corruption for taking illegal kickbacks and recommended his immunity be lifted for prosecution.

No more UN for US-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

19 posted on 08/08/2005 11:10:44 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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Corruption @ the UN? Reeeeaalllly???


20 posted on 08/08/2005 11:12:11 AM PDT by StrangerInParadise (This tagline has been reported stolen. If you see it, call BR-549..........)
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