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Kofi Annandersen: Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program.
Opinion Journal (WSJ) ^ | March 10, 2003 | Claudia Rosett

Posted on 03/10/2003 7:37:40 PM PST by Cicero

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foodforoil; nwo; oilforfood; taxreform; unlist
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To: listenhillary
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121 posted on 03/12/2003 5:47:16 PM PST by listenhillary (In my free time I enjoy listening to Liberals frothing at the mouth)
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122 posted on 03/12/2003 5:47:43 PM PST by listenhillary (In my free time I enjoy listening to Liberals frothing at the mouth)
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To: listenhillary
New day bump
123 posted on 03/13/2003 3:45:44 PM PST by listenhillary (In my free time I enjoy listening to Liberals frothing at the mouth)
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To: IncPen
ping....
124 posted on 03/19/2003 3:19:08 PM PST by BartMan1
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To: listenhillary
Bump again.
125 posted on 03/29/2003 8:14:19 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
Starve the U.N.

Stop the UN O.F.F.P. Bump
126 posted on 03/30/2003 12:14:36 PM PST by listenhillary (May the peace pissants soon be shamed by the free Iraqi's)
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To: madfly; AAABEST

127 posted on 04/07/2003 10:21:02 AM PDT by Joe Brower (http://www.joebrower.com/)
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To: listenhillary
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128 posted on 11/06/2003 7:10:31 PM PST by listenhillary
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To: MizSterious
Remember this?

Here is the master list for the Oil For Food Program from backhoe:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/898147/posts?page=1
129 posted on 02/29/2004 9:55:16 AM PST by Howlin (Just another unrepentant Bush supporter.)
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To: Howlin; Dog
Flash from the past bump.
130 posted on 03/11/2004 9:39:59 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Ditto
We were SO right about this.............so damn right!!!!

We're bad.....we're bad! :-)
131 posted on 03/11/2004 9:42:02 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: Ditto; Howlin
FR is ahead of the media once again!
132 posted on 03/11/2004 9:52:57 AM PST by Dog (Bin Laden your account to America is past due......time to pay up.)
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To: Dog
This is over one year old. Where was the media!!!!

Good info in this---

133 posted on 04/02/2004 10:53:44 AM PST by malia (BUSH/CHENEY '04 NEVER FORGET!)
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To: malia
Where was the media.....they were a tid busy .....bashing Bush....:-)

I hate the media.

134 posted on 04/02/2004 11:25:43 AM PST by Dog
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To: Howlin; malia; Dog
Pertinent now Ping!
135 posted on 06/25/2004 11:16:14 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: Syncro

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136 posted on 06/26/2004 12:01:52 PM PDT by malia (BUSH/CHENEY '04)
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To: Cicero

ping


137 posted on 11/04/2004 8:06:45 PM PST by Angry Republican (My thanks to America for choosing the right man in 2004.)
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