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<p>May 13, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - U.N. investigators have arrived in Baghdad to look at "smoking gun" files that purportedly document wholesale bribery of U.N. officials and international political figures by Saddam Hussein, The Post has learned. Sources close to the probe said staffers of the U.N. commission, headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, were in Iraq to open a critical phase of the investigation into the oil-for-food program scandal.</p>

<p>Iraq's American-backed administration failed in its first week to choose a president, abandoning that mission in favor of a weak, three-man rotating leadership. The top U.S. official in Iraq -- who hand-picked the Governing Council -- returned to Washington while an insurgency killed another American soldier Saturday.</p>