It was all about OIL! UN-Iraq corruption festers...

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  1. Orson

    Orson New Member

    One argument heard a year ago and more was that Bush's war aims in Iraq were all about oil.

    Now, with the 10 to 40 billion dollar scam of the UN "monitored" foog-for-oil progam in Iraq, under Saddam, one wonders if Kofi Annan will have his Claude Rains moment....

    Meanwhile, the impact of the corruption spreads throughout Europe.

    "Police arrested a leading investigative journalist yesterday on the orders of the European Union, seizing his computers, address books and archive of files in a move that stunned Euro-MPs.

    "Hans-Martin Tillack, the Brussels correspondent for Germany's Stern magazine, said he was held for 10 hours without access to a lawyer by the Belgian police after his office and home were raided by six officers.

    "'They asked me to tell them who my sources were. I replied that was something I would never do. Now they have all my sensitive files, so I suppose they'll find out anyway,' he said last night."
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/20/weu20.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/20/ixworld.html

    --Orson
     

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