Skip to comments.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foodforoil; nwo; oilforfood; taxreform; unlist
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120, 121-137 next last
To: lorrainer
And why do I smell slimy X42 snail tracks all over this one?"I've had good deals before, but this is the best"
This "great deal" was dreamed up on the 'Toon's watch. I've NEVER trusted Annan and thought he was a snake from the first time I heard him. That is exactly the reaction I had about the 'Toon when I first heard him in the '92 campaign season. Snakes of a feather flock together, I think the saying goes. I have no doubt the slime trails are entwined together.
81
posted on
03/10/2003 11:17:17 PM PST
by
AFPhys
To: sauropod
Take a look.
To: AFPhys
Keep bumping it to the top. Already bookmarked on my profile page.
I apparently have an endless capacity for being surprised. If an author came up with this, no one would believe it. Above all, the Mrs. MUST NOT EVER become president. I need some sleep...
83
posted on
03/10/2003 11:37:49 PM PST
by
lorrainer
(EVERYBODY thinks I'm paranoid!)
To: Tom Jefferson; backhoe; Militiaman7; BARLF; timestax; imintrouble; cake_crumb; Brad's Gramma; ...
The result is that U.N.-approved aid goes to reinforce Saddam's control over what is already a Soviet-league state-run economy. Part of what helped Saddam rise to power in the first place was Iraq's embrace in the 1960s of Soviet-style central planning, which by rationing goods and controlling people's livelihoods serves as a powerful tool for political control.
No more UN for US-list
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
To: Cicero
The US should check bank accounts of all UN top officials and their familes, who are in anyway connected to the Iraqi issue discussed. Someone will be taking the cream off this one. Any organisation who polices itself with this kind of temptation, is doomed to failure.
So now we know why Blix and his buddy were so pleasant last week. The amounts of money concerned are enough to get Presidents and Prime Ministers assasinated, never mind delay or stop a war or even buy Weapons inspectors.
Look Out & Stay Safe: George, Tony, Colin, Jack, Dick and good old Rummy.
To: knighthawk
Git the US Outta the UN...NOW!!! Git the UN Outta the US...NOW!!!
We don't need no steeeenkin' World Guv'ment!!
FReegards...MUD
86
posted on
03/11/2003 12:58:09 AM PST
by
Mudboy Slim
(The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."DemonRATS and RINOS LOATHE Justice Fer ALL!!")
To: eddie willers
Absolutely appalling! Sure explains a lot, tho.
I think the best thing we can do for the entire world at this point is to go ahead without the UN. The sooner we render this organization superfluous, the better.
To: Cicero
french capitalist bump
88
posted on
03/11/2003 2:55:14 AM PST
by
alrea
To: Howlin
Incredible ! Thanks for the ping . . .
89
posted on
03/11/2003 3:03:10 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Howlin; Cicero; Alamo-Girl; onyx; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Fred Mertz; dixiechick2000; ...
Kofi Annandersen: Enron-style accounting
at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program Excerpt: Today, with private business largely smothered, except in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, the only significant source of foreign exchange is oil. All oil in Iraq belongs to the state. Saddam decides who will benefit from its sale, and who will be deprived. "The government of Iraq has the sole responsibility for allocating the money," says an official of the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program. "We cannot tell them, we only advise them." An author of the Coalition for International Justice report, Susan Blaustein, notes that Saddam has stolen Iraq's oil from his fellow countrymen. She points out that in accommodating this arrangement, "the U.N. is colluding in that theft."
< snip >
In another craven move, the U.N.'s Iraq program even allowed Saddam to dictate in October 2000 that he no longer wanted the Oil-for-Food accounts to be held in the currency of the enemy, meaning U.S. dollars. Obediently, the U.N. switched all Iraq funds from that stage forward to euros, in effect helping Saddam impose his own version of sanctions on the U.S.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.
90
posted on
03/11/2003 3:08:52 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Cicero
For another data point on this subject, read The Road to Hell by Michael Marin.
The book relates his personal experiences as a "Peace Corps Volunteer" and includes a note on the unwillingness of Joe Liberman (CT Attorney General at the time) to prosecute the "Save the Children" enterprise for their fraudulent fund raising tactics.
Marin relates his experience in dealing with corruption in Africa, while trying to help the people. He also tells of the murder of his child and finding the body in the pit of an outhouse!
To: MeeknMing
My two observations:
In another craven move, the U.N.'s Iraq program even allowed Saddam to dictate in October 2000 that he no longer wanted the Oil-for-Food accounts to be held in the currency of the enemy, meaning U.S. dollars. Obediently, the U.N. switched all Iraq funds from that stage forward to euros, in effect helping Saddam impose his own version of sanctions on the U.S.
Recall the stock market in October 2000?
Under the guise of the U.N.s Oil For Food program, the U.N. has collected more than $1.2 billion each year in fees by administering the transfer of at least $15 billion a year. These fees alone pay the salaries of more than 4,000 U.N. employees.
Doesn't that work out to $300K a year? Nice salary for these "global humanitarians".
92
posted on
03/11/2003 4:20:02 AM PST
by
VA40
To: VA40
Under the guise of the U.N.s Oil For Food program, the U.N. has collected more than $1.2 billion each year in fees by administering the transfer of at least $15 billion a year. These fees alone pay the salaries of more than 4,000 U.N. employees. Doesn't that work out to $300K a year? Nice salary for these "global humanitarians".
GOOD point. Big $$ for Terrorist enablers . . .
93
posted on
03/11/2003 4:41:08 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Howlin
Mandatory read ping
This ought to about do you all in for the day.
well then....I'm not reading it till later on.....
(-;
94
posted on
03/11/2003 4:48:41 AM PST
by
firewalk
To: Howlin
First thing I read this morning...Thanks, as always for the ping.
BUMP for the morning.
95
posted on
03/11/2003 5:33:13 AM PST
by
cyncooper
(God Be With Jack Straw)
To: MeeknMing
Thanks for the heads up!
To: Howlin
And just when I thought my blood pressure was at its highest point from yesterday's UN-related news! This stuff needs to get out to Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc. I know dang well it won't be the lead story (let alone buried on the back page) for any of the other major media outlets. It should be. I positively despise the UN and want the US out of that corrupt, worthless organization, ASAP.
97
posted on
03/11/2003 8:02:35 AM PST
by
demnomo
To: demnomo; Cicero
And just when I thought my blood pressure was at its highest point from yesterday's UN-related news!I know what you mean. I suggested yesterday that maybe Jim could by us a decompression chamber!
98
posted on
03/11/2003 8:11:21 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Only UNamericans put the UN before America!)
To: Howlin
...I suggested yesterday that maybe Jim could buy us a decompression chamber!
Ain't that the truth!
99
posted on
03/11/2003 8:17:40 AM PST
by
demnomo
To: Cicero
It's the biggest problem in our country world today. Lying news reporters who will do anything to further the left wing agenda. Amen. That our major allies had to get a letter printed in the WSJ - in both 2002 AND 2003 telling the world that the USA is not acting unilaterally is all anyone needs to know.
100
posted on
03/11/2003 8:33:11 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
(This President is not going to back down no matter how Angola or Cameroon votes. - Sen.Jeff Sessions)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120, 121-137 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson