Iraq and Oil-for-Food: The Real Story

[G_j]

Iraq and Oil-for-Food: The Real Story (October 5, 2005)

The Volcker Committee's investigations into the UN Oil-for-Food Programme have not revealed endemic UN corruption, as many conservatives and UN-critics claim. Rather, the program's failures stem from Security Council member states - particularly the US and UK - and their hurried efforts to implement an ill-conceived program in the wake of economic sanctions and the first Gulf War. Furthermore, the bulk of illicit revenues came from smuggling, rather than kickbacks and bribes, involving Saddam Hussein's government, neighboring states, and private corporations, which the UN Secretariat was neither involved with nor responsible for monitoring.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/oilforfood/2005/1005realstory.htm

This is the second article of a two-part series
Part I: Kofi and the Scandal Pimps

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/oilforfood/2005/1004kofi.htm

[CrispyQ]

1. Thank you for this.

I will read this later & probably send to my mother who believes the UN is so corrupt.

[applegrove]

2. Thanks for posting. n/t

[stillcool]

3. thanks...book-marked for later leisurely perusal....

[G_j]

4. fyi nt

[G_j]

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[G_j]

6. --=

[leftchick]

7. and how many BILLIONS gone missing in Iraq since 2003???

no one ever mentions that!

[radwriter0555]

8. More US taxpayer dollars are missing than were 'unaccounted for' in the

purported oil for food 'scandal'....