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  • Weasels Blocked U.S. Probe of U.N. Oil Scam

    07/08/2004 8:57:21 AM PDT · by quidnunc · 23 replies · 1,321+ views
    The New York Post ^ | July 6, 2004 | Niles Lathem
    Transcripts of secret U.N. Security Council sessions show that U.S. and British diplomats were constantly thwarted by their French, Russian and Chinese counterparts while investigating Saddam Hussein's dirty deals under the oil-for-food program. Minutes of meetings of the so-called 661 Committee — the U.N. Security Council panel that oversaw Iraq sanctions and the oil-for-food program — have been recently turned over to U.S. congressional committees investigating the $10 billion bribery kickback scandal, officials said. According to a top congressional investigator who has read the highly sensitive documents, the minutes confirm that there was widespread knowledge inside the United Nations years...
  • Iraq Official Heading Oil-For-Food Probe Killed (Thursday)

    07/03/2004 10:14:28 AM PDT · by idkfa · 52 replies · 598+ views
    Reuters ^ | Jul 3, 2004 | Khaled Yacoub Oweis
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi official heading the investigation into alleged corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program was killed in a bomb attack earlier this week, officials familiar with the probe said on Saturday. Ihsan Karim, head of the Board of Supreme Audit, died in hospital after a bomb placed under one of the cars in his convoy exploded on Thursday, the officials said. Iraq's former U.S. Governor Paul Bremer gave the board independence from the executive branch of government and appointed Karim as its head in April. The board appointed international accountants Ernst and Young in May to...