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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday the United States and Britain bore part of the blame in the Iraq oil-for-food debacle by allowing unsupervised oil exports that Saddam Hussein exploited. Annan, addressing a seminar on the United Nations and the media, said most of the money Saddam earned was by oil sold to Jordan and Turkey outside of the $67 billion U.N. program. Only countries like the United States and Britain had interdiction forces that could have stopped it. But he said they "decided to close their eyes to Turkey and Jordan because they are...

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Rights out of focus as science blinds By David Scofield Kim Jong-il leaps from the nuclear closet and the world reacts with rapt attention. Even United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's personal envoy to North Korea, former Canadian diplomat Maurice Strong, has indicated that Pyongyang's withdrawal from the six-party talks and declared nuclear arsenal is "a very real bump in the road" - a departure from last spring when he optimistically declared that Kim Jong-il wants "a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula". As has been repeated by foreign ministers and editorial writers the world over, this sort of portentous tactic is not...