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Paris's former ambassador to the U.N., Jean-Bernard Merimee--who sat on the Security Council in the course of his duties--has been detained by French authorities on suspicion of having received vouchers from Saddam Hussein for 11 million barrels of oil between December 2001 and March 2003.(The Week ...)

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Paris's former ambassador to the U.N., Jean-Bernard Merimee--who sat on the Security Council in the course of his duties--has been detained by French authorities on suspicion of having received vouchers from Saddam Hussein for 11 million barrels of oil between December 2001 and March 2003. He's just one of at least eleven senior French officials and businessmen being investigated in the fallout from the Oil for Food scandal. Everyone from the U.N. to the French government is remaining tight-lipped on the matter, and it should be said that the 2004 Duelfer Report--which first ...

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