Oil for Food (OFF) Debacle aka UNSCAM
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» monarch22 - The facts are not politically correct facts. So :ignored!
Briefly, it is a sign of the Times.
I mean, they been mythologizing us for centuries and centuries.
For instance, reading the Greek myths, one would never be told to consider the scriptures of Israel, right? Manuscripts dates have to be as early as possible or else one might think: Some arrogant Greek read those books of Moses and blew his arete and hubris clean into the Aegaen Sea! So much pride oozing out of dudes like Plato that its amazing none can see it.
And so the flood becomes one of the shadows on the cave wall, for the good of the people, as the Guardian conceals a harmful truth (the people fell and became evil, whereas Plato is Good, and so was the other philosophers, and demo-cratic? Like Alexander? Course Alexander was just taught by Aristotle, who was taught by Plato, who was taught, so he thought,by the Great Ideer itself! So what would Alexander know about the Greeks compared to a phd in the present day in history???): the flood becomes Atlantis, the golden city sunk beneath the sea.
Well, here's looking at ewe, kid.
-- posted by monarch22
» Lawhawk - More from Caludia Rosett
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists...-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Sevan Tipped Off Saddam About Pending Investigations
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editor...-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - French, Russian, and Chinese Perfidy
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/268...-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Iraqi official investigating oil-for-food scandal killed 7/3/04
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml...-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Volcker responds
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=...As a matter of priority, we seek to answer conclusively the allegations of corruption within the U.N. professional staff. We aim to provide, hopefully in six to eight months, the truly definitive report on the administration of the Oil-for-Food Program. In conjunction with responsible Iraqi and other national authorities as appropriate, we want to trace corrupt contractors and ill-gotten funds wherever they may be found. The chips will fall where they may. At the end of the day, our hope and belief is that the truth will better enable the U.N. to go forward, with reforms as necessary, and provide the forum for international cooperation that we need and in which all of us can have confidence.
-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Safire's Update on KofiGate
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/opinio...-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Claudia Rosett Testifies Before Congress
http://www.nationalreview.com/rosett/ros...Those willing to speak up have not as a rule had access to much of the vital, specific evidence. Those with access have been, by and large, part of the U.N. system, and have been unwilling to step forward and spill the beans, at least in ways one can attribute. In some cases, the venal interests involved are on the scale of entire nations — France, Russia, China, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, for instance — milling Saddam's deals through their country missions with no apparent concern over the corruption involved. In others, such as the U.S. and U.K., backroom diplomacy seems to have outweighed the need to hold the U.N. to any reasonable standard of integrity — which is at best a perilous habit, bad for both the U.N. and the U.S. And, on a far more individual scale, there is great reluctance among U.N. employees to come forward, lest they lose their jobs and pensions in a system where one of the U.N.'s own surveys found recently that 46 percent of the staff members fear reprisals for speaking up. The U.N. off-the-record is far too different a world from the U.N. as officially attributed; and while some gap must be expected with any institution, in the U.N.'s case, it is extraordinarily large.On this matter of whistle-blowing, while noting that the entire Security Council was complicit in covering up Oil-for-Food, I would add that it is the secretary-general whose job rightfully requires that he rise above the particular interests of individual member states in order to protect the integrity of the U.N. as an institution. Not only did Mr. Annan fail, but he has simply declined to accept responsibility. Instead, he has kept senior members of his staff busy deflecting blame toward to the Security Council, where it then dissipates among the assorted member states. And having earlier this year denied that Oil-for-Food needed investigating, Mr. Annan would now have us believe that the secretariat was aware of serious problems all along, but did not dare confront the same Security Council to which he would now affix the blame.
Further complicating any inquiry is the sheer danger of peering too deeply into Oil-for-Food. The murder by car bomb in Baghdad last week of Ihsan Karim, who was in charge of the Iraqi end of the Oil-for-Food investigation, may have been coincidence. But the apparent extent of the bribes and kickbacks, the billions involved, the potential prosecutions should details truly begin to emerge in quantity, and the nature of some of Saddam's select U.N.-approved business partners, is daunting — on the basic level of physical safety.
-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Rosett's Naming Companies
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists...-- posted by Lawhawk
» Lawhawk - Money from oil-for-food scandal being used to fund insurgency
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/275...American officials believe that millions of dollars Saddam Hussein skimmed from the scandal-plagued U.N. oil-for-food program are now being used to help fund the bloody rebel campaign against U.S. forces and the new Iraqi government, The Post has learned.
U.S. intelligence officials and congressional investigators said last night that the "oil-for-insurgency link" has been recently unearthed in the numerous probes now under way into the giant U.N. humanitarian program, in which Saddam is believed to have pocketed $10.1 billion through oil smuggling and kickbacks from suppliers.Congressional investigators have uncovered hundreds of documents in recent weeks that detail how top officials in Saddam's regime directed companies bidding on contracts for oil or humanitarian goods to pay "after-sales fees" — or kickbacks — of up to 10 percent of each contract.
The documents, which come from Iraqi government files and were handed over to the congressional committees in recent weeks, reveal that the companies were ordered to wire the kickback money into secret bank accounts the regime operated outside Iraq — separate from the legitimate bank accounts being used by the oil-for-food program.
Investigators have traced some of these accounts to banks in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Belarus, where money was either laundered or converted into gold and routed back to Iraq or into other accounts.
The additional travesty is that papers like the Times are not giving this story the proper coverage, instead relegating it to the back pages, if at all. Since other papers get their cues from the Times, this story isn't receiving the proper coverage.
-- posted by Lawhawk
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