Posted on 06/29/2008 2:55:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Iraq to sue oil-for-food suspects
The Iraqi government has said it will file lawsuits in US courts against firms and people suspected of illegally profiting from a UN programme.
The UN oil-for-food programme allowed Saddam Hussein's government to sell oil in order to buy humanitarian supplies during UN sanctions from 1996-2003.
An inquiry found that 2,200 firms paid $1.8bn in bribes to Iraqi officials.
Meanwhile, a US army report has said there was little planning for events after Saddam Hussein was overthrown.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement that the legal action was to recover damages and hold those who benefited from the illegal activity "accountable for their actions".
"The oil-for-food programme was subject to huge financial scandals by companies and others [who] conspired with Saddam Hussein to embezzle large sums of money through kickbacks, inflated prices and the supply of shoddy goods," he said.
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Excellent.
Run, Kofi, run!
Good.
I’ll second that excellent!
I particularly like this entry...
ARMITAGE: SCANDALISTS “OUGHT TO HANG”
‘Hang’ U.N. Oil Ra$cals
April 30, 2004 — WASHINGTON - The State Department’s No. 2 official said yesterday that those guilty of corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program “ought to hang.”
The blunt remarks by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to a House subcommittee were the strongest comments the Bush administration has made since accusations surfaced in January that Saddam Hussein ripped off $10 billion from the program.
He noted that the department has taken what he called the “extraordinary” step of turning over sensitive documents to investigators on the matter, “because we want to get to the bottom of it as much as you do.”
“And if someone is found guilty they ought to hang,” Armitage said.
This is the person that outed Plame, is it not?
I remember reading years ago that the IRaquis and American troops secured Saddam's documentation on the Oil for Food program. I bet a lot of people were counting on us never having access to those documents.
regarding UN: They might as well sue us directly, we’ll be paying any UN fine, just we pay their budget, anyway.
Executives of American oil companies today are earning a profit from the sale of oil but they are doing so legally by buying and selling their product in a free and fair world market where the amount of profit made is determined by the law of supply and demand. For this, they are the object of outrage by politicians, the media and the public and there are calls to confiscate their profits, take their businesses away from them and prosecute them them for every conceivable crime such as price gouging, collusion, fraud and even treason.
It’s pretty much a certainly that the individuals who took in billions of dollars from the illegal buying and selling of oil in the U.N. “Oil for Food” program will not be subject to the same public outrage. The fact that they could only profit from the corrupt program if they supported leaving Saddam Hussein in power (in spite of his being condemned by the same United Nations as a genocidal dictator responsible for the slaughter of nearly a million innocent civilians) seems not to be important enough to even mention in the stories I’ve seen about this scandal so far.
Come think of it
Iraq going make UN THEIR BEOTCHHHHHH
“ARMITAGE: SCANDALISTS “OUGHT TO HANG”
‘Hang’ U.N. Oil Ra$cals
April 30, 2004 — WASHINGTON - The State Department’s No. 2 official said yesterday that those guilty of corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program “ought to hang.”
The blunt remarks by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to a House subcommittee were the strongest comments the Bush administration has made since accusations surfaced in January that Saddam Hussein ripped off $10 billion from the program.
He noted that the department has taken what he called the “extraordinary” step of turning over sensitive documents to investigators on the matter, “because we want to get to the bottom of it as much as you do.”
“And if someone is found guilty they ought to hang,” Armitage said.
This is the person that outed Plame, is it not?”
Yes...and?
Start with Kofi Annen & his son who oversaw the program and helped themselves to available monies.
Kofi, maybe. Even probably. His kid, definitely!
This is going to make the Meloscevic trials look like a picnic. Time to turn the UN into Condos.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Absoultely correct.
Imagine a product that everyone had to use and some use extensively throughout the world.
Welcome to Oil.
If only Apple and Microsoft had it so good.
This is the payout for Iraq ‘not having WMDs’. If that had been proven, Iraq would be subject to lawsuits and their assets subject to seizure.
A great novel about this horrid mess is W. Griffin’s The Hostage. It is a beauty. The UN should be banned not guns.
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