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The Oil-for-Food Scam
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| May 2004
| Claudia Rosett
Posted on 04/21/2004 6:39:37 AM PDT by Valin
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:39:38 AM PDT
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Valin
To: Valin
Great post! This deserves a lot more media attention. Will it get it? Probably not from the 60 Minutes crowd.
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:41:37 AM PDT
by
cvq3842
To: Valin
INTREP - UN - read later
To: Valin
bookmarked.
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:44:23 AM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: cvq3842
Probably not from the 60 Minutes crowd.
All 47 of them. :-)
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:57:33 AM PDT
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: Valin
Fine, let's hope this draws the attention it deserves.
But, the UN has never had adequate financial reporting or accountability. Inbound funding does not go to a public, central "accounts receivable" unit, it goes directly to the program and it goes, for the most part, secretly.
Several years back, there was the story of the woman who had depositied in her personal account a big chink of cash which shes refused to give back. The money was from some government to fund it's share of a UN program and one digit had been entered in error and the money deposited in the woman's account, instead. How many times has this happened? How many times is the account the personal account of some UN poo-bah?
I hope they will carefully examine the Food-For-Oil-Enrichment-Of-UN-Officials-Program, but am reasonably sure that, after a cursory examination, there will be little done.
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:58:26 AM PDT
by
Tacis
To: Valin
LOL!
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:05:58 AM PDT
by
cvq3842
To: Tacis
..there will be little done.I think there's too much momentum now to stop it.
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:07:25 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Valin
This is a great column. Thank you for posting it.
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:12:42 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Cyberterror experts Clarke + Gorelick kept out ALL terrorists who were disguised as electrons.)
To: Valin
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:13:12 AM PDT
by
GailA
(Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
To: GailA
Bump and bookmark.
Thanks for the link.
There are a great number of people who are doing all in their power to kill this story...and for a very good reason.
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:27:32 AM PDT
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: Valin
bttt
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:32:58 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(LESS government please, NOT more.)
bump for later, disgusted, read....
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:46:50 AM PDT
by
eureka!
(The shrillness of the left is a good sign.....)
To: cvq3842
Thank you. Fabulous post.
To: Valin
Already known, for example, is that two firms doing business with Saddam through Oil-for-Food were linked to financier Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, now on the UN’s own watchlist of individuals "belonging to or associated with" al Qaeda. Ha! The UN aided funding to the terrorists!
...If you harbor a terrorist, fund a terrorist, you ARE a terrorist...
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posted on
04/21/2004 8:14:10 AM PDT
by
hobson
To: Valin
I don't get it. Martha Stewart get jail time for a $10,000 stock fraud that actually hurt no-one. The perpetrators of a $600,000,000 fraud at Tyco get a mistrial. Then, the perpetrators of a $10,000,000,000 fraud get to establish an entire government in the Middle east.
Why don't we get together and steel $50,000,000,000 from someone. They'll probably give us Europe.
To: PretzeLogic
They'll probably give us Europe.
Oh boy! Be still my beating heart.
/sarcasm
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posted on
04/21/2004 8:23:24 AM PDT
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: PretzeLogic
ROFLOL!
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posted on
04/21/2004 8:24:10 AM PDT
by
hobson
To: Valin
Great article!
It is is extraordinary that the media is barely whimpered anything from this VERY important story. This might be one of the biggest scandals in the entire year.
Does anybody scatter-shot this story to the entire mainstream media. This story needs to give it the Paul Revere treatment!
Pass along this international scandal from your friends.
To: Valin
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posted on
04/21/2004 9:56:51 AM PDT
by
bukkdems
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