U.N. scandel is being covered over.

SedyAlpha · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-2004, 04:56 PM

Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations,still has his eye on the u.n. oil for food scam that is being hidden as is clear by the press lack of coverage.
Senator Coleman, along with Carl Levin, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, has written a letter to Kofi Annan protesting the U.N.'s efforts to block the subcommittee's investigation into that organization's corrupt practices.

As you know, there are allegations of misconduct and mismanagement by the U.N. and/or its agents, including allegations of bribery, conflict of interest and fraud. The recently published report by Charles Duelfer...revealed additional evidence that Benon Sevan, Executive Director of the U.N. Office of the Iraq program, may have received oil allocations from the government of Iraq. Accordingly, these allegations have raised serious questions concerning the management of the U.N. OFF program and the U.N.'s capacity to enforce a similar sanctions regime in the future.

In light of those concerns, we requested your consent to interview key U.N. personnel and review related documents.... In your response of September 29th, you declined to produce the requested documents and U.N. personnel.

We are troubled by your response for a number of reasons...
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/110904_un_off.pdf

SedyAlpha · #2 (**permalink**) 05-12-2005, 03:44 PM

http://www.washingtontimes.com/world...5405-2031r.htm

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A longtime ally of French President Jacques Chirac and a leading British critic of the Iraq war received huge contracts to resell Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program, Senate investigators have found.
In findings being released today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations charges that former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and British Member of Parliament George Galloway each received the right to market more than 10 million barrels of cut-rate oil from dictator Saddam's Oil Ministry between 1999 and 2003.
Senate investigators, who will air their findings in a hearing next week, based the new report on internal Iraqi documents, Oil Ministry correspondence and interviews with top Saddam-era officials such as detained Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan.
Subcommittee Chairman Norm Coleman, Minnesota Republican, said the findings "paint a disturbing picture of the dark underside of the oil-for-food program."
Mr. Pasqua, who now serves in the French Senate, and Mr. Galloway both strenuously denied accepting bribes from Saddam after their names surfaced on a list of 270 politicians, companies and other organizations published by a Baghdad newspaper last year suspected of accepting oil allotments.
"I have said and thus I confirm that I have strictly nothing to do with this affair. I never received anything," Mr. Pasqua said last month after French police questioned one of his top aides about the oil-for-food scandal.

The British [Galloway]lawmaker last year won judgments against the London Daily Telegraph and the Christian Science Monitor after they ran stories relying on forged Iraqi Foreign Ministry documents that Mr. Galloway had been paid directly by Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s.
"I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one," Mr. Galloway insisted in a 2003 interview.
But Senate investigators say they based their findings on different documents from the Iraqi Oil Ministry files and from direct testimony from Saddam aides.

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