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U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda
Fox News ^ | October 21, 2005 | Claudia Rosett and George Russell

Posted on 10/22/2005 12:55:43 PM PDT by 68skylark

NEW YORK — The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department () now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinister, especially where it involves a mysterious private company called IHC Services (), which did big business with the procurement department until it was removed from U.N. rosters in June.

New details of how dark the scandal could prove to be have emerged from the private sale of IHC on June 3, 2005, just as the procurement scandal was about to break. It now appears that while doing business with the U.N., IHC had links both to Saddam Hussein’s old sanctions-busting networks, and to a Liechtenstein-based businessman, Engelbert Schreiber, Jr., known among other things for his ties to a figure designated by the U.N. itself as a financier of Al Qaeda ().

Registered in New York State, with offices in New York City and Milan, IHC has been involved in possibly hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of business with the U.N. since the mid-1990s, serving both as a direct supplier and as a go-between for a wide variety of other contractors. This work has included IHC’s signing or helping to broker contracts for supplies ranging from portable generators to rations for U.N. peacekeeping troops in such trouble spots as West Africa and the Middle East.

IHC came under public scrutiny this summer, after FOX News broke the story on June 20 that IHC had maintained especially close ties with Alexander Yakovlev (), a Russian official in the U.N. procurement department, who while handling an IHC contract with the U.N. had obtained a job for his son with the company, and had also been channeling funds to a secret offshore bank account.

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To: 68skylark
I don't think anyone in the Bush administration is taking bribes or any other improper payments from the UN. But I do think they are guilty of shirking fights that should be fought, to clean up the UN or get out.

Getting out isn't an option for if we were to get out we would lose ALL voice in the UN.

As a standing member of the founders of the UN our only option to be rid of the corruption and mayhem in the UN is to better our inside forces. This has been done with the appointment of John Bolton.

Leaving the UN to their corruption without influence would only increase the cause for concern for us as a nation.

21 posted on 10/22/2005 2:26:32 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: 68skylark
Oh c'mon now...let's not be so mean-spirited! Terrorist sympathizers and tyrant lackeys need retirement plans, too! You think money grows in mass graves??


22 posted on 10/22/2005 2:29:44 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: Bommer; FairOpinion
Like what?

Like a worldly organization that is driven by the ideal of destroying our way of life.

If you think that they are doing it now, just imagine an organization without us holding our seat within that holds veto power.

23 posted on 10/22/2005 2:31:51 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS
Getting out isn't an option for if we were to get out we would lose ALL voice in the UN.

Nonsense. If the U.S. pulled out of the U.N., the U.N. would collapse within a year due to loss of our ridiculously ample "dues" to their terrorist love-fest.

The sooner we exit the U.N. and relocate them to Gaza (so they can snuggle up with the very terrorists they adore so much) the better off we'll all be.

24 posted on 10/22/2005 2:32:42 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: 68skylark; FairOpinion
I do think they are guilty of shirking fights that should be fought, to clean up the UN or get out.

Shirking fights?? The President is still fighting the world because he didn't have UN approval to go into Iraq. Now the UN is in Iraq making DNC talking points about voter fraud.

As much as I would like to see President Bush withdraw us from the stinking UN and kick them out of the USA, it must be done in the same way one eats an elephant ... one bite at a time.

There has been an investigation going on of the Oil for Food scandal for well over a year, with more fingers pointing at the UN everyday. He went around the demonRATS and the crybaby, and recess appointed Bolton. Congress voted to cut our "contribution" to the UN by half. (did that stick?)

Like everything else, it takes time. President Bush can't "nuke" the UN, anymore than he can "nuke" SS or DOE or appoint any judge he wants.

25 posted on 10/22/2005 2:34:47 PM PDT by Just A Nobody ( Member of the Water Bucket Brigade - It's all about MOOSEMUSS)
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To: Prime Choice
Nonsense. If the U.S. pulled out of the U.N., the U.N. would collapse within a year due to loss of our ridiculously ample "dues" to their terrorist love-fest.

Bravo Sierra.

26 posted on 10/22/2005 2:35:37 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Justanobody
Shirking fights?? The President is still fighting the world because he didn't have UN approval to go into Iraq. Now the UN is in Iraq making DNC talking points about voter fraud. As much as I would like to see President Bush withdraw us from the stinking UN and kick them out of the USA, it must be done in the same way one eats an elephant ... one bite at a time. There has been an investigation going on of the Oil for Food scandal for well over a year, with more fingers pointing at the UN everyday. He went around the demonRATS and the crybaby, and recess appointed Bolton. Congress voted to cut our "contribution" to the UN by half. (did that stick?)

Like everything else, it takes time. President Bush can't "nuke" the UN, anymore than he can "nuke" SS or DOE or appoint any judge he wants.

Sensibility and long term vision has just become your claim to fame justanobody.

To me anyway!

27 posted on 10/22/2005 2:39:32 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS

If you keep flattering me like that people will begin to talk. *fluttering eyelashes* ;*)


28 posted on 10/22/2005 2:42:07 PM PDT by Just A Nobody ( Member of the Water Bucket Brigade - It's all about MOOSEMUSS)
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To: EGPWS
Bravo Sierra.

Well, there's a brilliant and thought-out rebuttal.

(/SARCASM)

29 posted on 10/22/2005 2:42:46 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: 68skylark

It's long past time we put the UN on the list of terrorist groups.
Axis of evil bump


30 posted on 10/22/2005 2:44:02 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: 68skylark
But if appointing him is the only concrete action the Bush administration is willing to take

Consider the discoveries that have been made since the invasion of Iraq. Consider how those discoveries have reflected on Kofi Annan and the United Nations.

Despite the MSM's blackout, the words "Oil for Food" are now synonymous with the words "United Nations corruption".

This administration has done more to damage the UN's image than any other. And the President has done it without ever appearing to "attack" the institution.

31 posted on 10/22/2005 2:46:13 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Delay for President)
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To: 68skylark
Oh, this can't be. Liberals have assured us that there's no way the sainted United Nations would enrich terrorists by funelling cash to them.

This simply can't be.

32 posted on 10/22/2005 2:46:24 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: EGPWS
Like a worldly organization that is driven by the ideal of destroying our way of life.

If you think that they are doing it now, just imagine an organization without us holding our seat within that holds veto power.

OH MY GOD! If the UN can do this, I shudder to think what the League of Nations is cooking up right now!

When the most powerful, resourceful and generous nation on earth doesn't recognize you, you cease to exist!

33 posted on 10/22/2005 2:48:08 PM PDT by Bommer (TEXANS - VOTE NOV 8TH FOR PROPOSITION 2 - THE MARRIAGE PROTECTION AMENDMENT)
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To: Buck W.
Every administration since Truman has poured money into that black hole. You can't single Bush out.

Well "everybody else did it too" isn't really a great defense. I think we should ask for high standards in the current administration (and the next one too, for that matter). Let's do better in the future than we have in the past.

I'm starting to think the UN is beyond reform and beyond help. It's time to start thinking about more radical solutions.

34 posted on 10/22/2005 2:48:52 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: Justanobody
Well if you're happy with our progress so far at UN reform, I'm glad to hear it.

Maybe I've been too harsh. Maybe the Bush administration is doing a good job of cleaning up the mess and making sure U.S. taxpayers are getting good value for the money we send to the UN.

Maybe we're on the right track, and we just need to keep doing what we're doing to have a nice, clean, helpful UN in the future.

I doubt it, personally. I think we're on the wrong track, and the Bush administration is doing little more than rearranging a few deck chairs.

35 posted on 10/22/2005 2:53:06 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark

"ethically-challenged"

LOL


36 posted on 10/22/2005 3:11:00 PM PDT by msjhall
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To: 68skylark
Well if you're happy with our progress so far at UN reform,

I never said I was happy about it. I simply pointed to steps that have been taken. The Oil for Food scandal may very well be their own downfall. Then of course there is Dar fur and a myriad of other areas I could sight.

Personally, I don't think they can be "reformed" and would rather see them cease to exist. In the meantime, we have Bolton on the inside, hopefully gathering more ammunition. Have you given any consideration to the maniacal opposition to the Bolton appointment? To me, it was a big red flag that something more than a dislike of his personality is involved. I could be wrong, but...

There are many outside factors involved, the WOT not the least of them. Prosecuting the WOT takes precedence over the UN, IMNSHO.

37 posted on 10/22/2005 3:12:16 PM PDT by Just A Nobody ( Member of the Water Bucket Brigade - It's all about MOOSEMUSS)
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To: Bommer
When the most powerful, resourceful and generous nation on earth doesn't recognize you, you cease to exist!

The day is coming....

38 posted on 10/22/2005 3:14:14 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: 68skylark
(Al Reuters) Monday October 31 - The Rose Garden.

Today President Bush announced suspension of all US dues to the UN.

"Today I am announcing a total suspension of all US dues to the UN". "This organization had demonstrated that is beyond inept and is corrupt to the core".

"I have asked Governor Pataki to order the NY National Guard into to New York to escort every employee to JKF airport and return them to their respective countries - if that is not feasible they will be flown to France - where I'm sure they will like the restaurants far better".
39 posted on 10/22/2005 3:15:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Unelect All NJ Politicians....)
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To: EGPWS; Prime Choice

I have to admit that EGPWS has a point here.

The 'enemy' has more than enough money to build the new UN building, and call it a world court.

As much as I detest the UN, we're probably better in it.

*dreaming*
Wouldn't it be nice if we could take it over, and clean it out?


40 posted on 10/22/2005 3:20:50 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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