smugllama's news review
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Scandal at the U.N. (NY Times)
"The cover-up in the office of the U.N. secretary general of a multibillion-dollar financial fraud known as the Iraqi oil-for-food program is beginning to come apart. ... Journalist Claudia Rosett charging that the U.N.'s secretive oversight of more than $100 billion in Iraqi oil exports and supposed humanitarian imports was 'an invitation to kickbacks, political back-scratching and smuggling done under cover of relief operations.' After checking with Kurdish sources in Iraq, I reported that half the money allocated to their people had been blocked by Saddam 'conspiring with bureaucrats in the U.N. Plaza.'"
"The cover-up in the office of the U.N. secretary general of a multibillion-dollar financial fraud known as the Iraqi oil-for-food program is beginning to come apart. ... Journalist Claudia Rosett charging that the U.N.'s secretive oversight of more than $100 billion in Iraqi oil exports and supposed humanitarian imports was 'an invitation to kickbacks, political back-scratching and smuggling done under cover of relief operations.' After checking with Kurdish sources in Iraq, I reported that half the money allocated to their people had been blocked by Saddam 'conspiring with bureaucrats in the U.N. Plaza.'"
