Kofi Annandersen: Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program.

Opinion Journal (WSJ) ^ | March 10, 2003 | Claudia Rosett

[Cicero]

Who is Saddam Hussein's biggest business partner?

The United Nations. The same U.N. whose secretary-general, Kofi Annan, stands as one of the chief ditherers over removing Saddam. Here are the ingredients of a conflict of interest.

Under the U.N.'s Office of the Iraq Program, which supervises the six-year-old Oil-for-Food Program, the U.N. has had a hand in the sale of more than $55 billion worth of Iraqi oil. Iraq ships oil out to U.N.-approved buyers under the terms of the sanctions agreement. The U.N. vets the inflow of "humanitarian" imports into Iraq.

[nopardons]

Thanks, Howlin. This really IS MANDATORY reading !

[swheats]

It definately explains why Chiroc is experiencing temporary insanity and needs to be in New York this week.

[Dick Bachert]

OH, BE STILL MY HEART!

[lorrainer]

Thanks for the ping, howlin--I think.

Why isn't Peanut Boy all over this with his election auditors? Seems like it would be right up his humanitarian alley. And why do I smell slimy X42 snail tracks all over this one? Wasn't he sniffing around last week for a spot as Secretary General? Floating trial balloons, perhaps?

Once again, totally disgusted.

[Cicero]

Well said. And all very true.

[kcvl]

M.D. Currington must be a FREEPER...lol!

[Cicero]

LOL...it IS getting kinda late, isn't it?

I'm heading for bed. I'm on East Coast time, and tomorrow's a working day. Let's hope a few more people catch this one tomorrow.

[nutmeg]

This ought to about do you all in for the day.

You said it, Howlin! Thanks for the ping. I'll ping a few more FRiends on this one...

[nutmeg]

As Howlin said, This one is a Mandatory Read ping! Note that this article is dated Wednesday, September 25, 2002 not March 10, 2003 as posted.

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ping list.

[nutmeg]

FYI

[texasbluebell]

Jeeze....what a sweetheart deal. Things are starting to make a little more sense.

Why am I not surprised? When will I stop be so naive as to not suspect money is behind all this? Follow the money!

Thanks for the ping, Howlin.

[Coleus]

The UN is Communist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/763809/posts

Flower Child Fascism
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac3d9b55fec.htm

The UN Plan For Your Mental Health
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/MentalHealth2-99.html

The UN's Global Malfeasance
http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/deweese/20030219.htm

Kofi Anan, Bigot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/801874/posts

UNICEF
United Nations International Children's Fund
http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/unicef/index.html

List of Communist Organizations Operating in US.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828445/posts

Let's Quit the UN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837196/posts

UNICEF and Halloween--Vatican Halts Payment
http://www.knightsite.com/kc9496/unborn25.htm

UN charter deserves the dustbin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710421/posts

Ushering One-World Religion, CBN News
http://www.cbn.org/cbnnews%2Fnews%2F021023a%2Easp

Child Sex Book Given out at UN Summit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/681145/posts

What's UNESCO Good For?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/754948/posts

Who Created the United Nations? Communists!
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a00f5fb38b0.htm

New World Order Rising? - Thoughts on the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743512/posts

United Nations-Sustainable Development
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21text.htm

A U.S. Senator Rebukes the U.N. - WHY?
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/jun00/helms.htm

Erasing Our Boarders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/671826/posts


"Every child is our child."
-- Motto of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

"To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification."
Brock Chisolm, when director of UN World Health Organisation

1948 -- UNESCO president and Fabian Socialist, Sir Julian Huxley, calls for a radical eugenic policy in UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy. He states: "Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable."

• "In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Oceanographer Jaques Cousteau Published in the Courier, a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Bush Says YES to UNESCO
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/9/19/153742.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,791354,00.html

United Nations: Don't Smack Your Child
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2297821.stm
Your UNICEF dollars at work
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27627
The New World Religion
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/09-23-2002/vo18no19_religion.htm
U.N. land grab in the works
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29260

http://www.seidata.com/~neusys/colm0036.html

Speak Up for Sovereignty and Patriotism!http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1997/jan97/psrjan97.html

FYI Read these links regarding the UN, NATO and Communism.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/853574/posts?page=32#32

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/853574/posts?page=33#33

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/853574/posts?page=39#39

[woodyinscc]

This absolutely makes me want to throw up.!

I always said, The U.N. is nothing but a
playgroud for the pseudo-intellectual
left, to give them a platform for their
misguided ideals. Now they are complicit
with a despot!!

[cake_crumb]

"I'm heading for bed. I'm on East Coast time, and tomorrow's a working day. Let's hope a few more people catch this one tomorrow."

Good night. I'm heading for bed myself. Long day today, and probably a long one tomorrow. My neurons are in meltdown mode and my eyeballs are dried out.

[ArneFufkin]

Howlin, I offered a more nefarious conspiracy theory regarding the "oil for food" scam on this thread. I think this U.N program is the epicenter of a mechanism funding international terror. The program has enabled an oil smuggling regime that has sent up to 400,000 barrels per day of black market oil from Iraq into Syria and Iran - two sweetheart nations we all know and love. At $20/barrel average, that's around $8 million per day, or $3 billion annually in the hands of the countries most responsible for sponsoring terror. Countries that buy weapons and engineering technology from the North Koreans, Russians and Chinese. Countries that sponsor Hizbullah, Hamas, al Qaida etc. Consider this ... if Bin Laden ONLY took a 5% commission for moving the smuggled oil back through his Saudi contacts and into the larger market, that would be $150 million per year. You could run a 98 country terror network with that money. Scary stuff.

[WaterDragon]

I am so fed up with America lending any credence to an organization as futile, corrupt and deadly to the world's peoples as the United Nations.

[Taxman]

I no wonder Der Sleazemeister wants to be UN SECGEN!

[AFPhys]

Ho, boy... What a classic boondoggle... This aspect never occurred to me, I must admit. I've seen a bit recently regarding this junk, but do not recall reading this article, or seeing such a well detailled and explanatory discussion of the UNs cash cow.

Thanks to the author.

Thanks to Howlin - keep me on your mandatory read ping list.

Thanks to Cicero for reposting it --- even if it had been posted in the past, it needed to be reposted currently.

I should have gotten the Advil first, too, Mo1.

[AFPhys]

Thanks for the ping, I guess. And here I gave up gin for Lent.

ROTFLMAO - tears in my eyes - If I die laughing, choking and gagging, it will be your fault, MM

[TexKat]

Someone e-mail this to Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

We want action and we want it now.