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Latest spin on UN scandal.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(United Nations)(Correction Notice)
ITEM: One headline in the Washington Post on March 30 read, "Kofi Annan Cleared in Corruption Probe." The accompanying article then stetted. "A U.N. appointed panel investigating abuse in the Iraq oil-for-food program said there is no evidence that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan used his influence to steer a multimillion-dollar contract to a Swiss company that employed his son."
ITEM: The Boston Globe also on March 30 featured a store' entitled, "Report clears UN chief of corruption allegations."
CORRECTION: Notwithstanding the headlines in the Washington Post and Boston Globe, the report on the investigation of the oil-for-food scandal did not say Kofi Annan was innocent of wrongdoing. Even a senior fellow from the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, Charles Kupchan, was forced to admit to the New York Times that, while the report "explicitly said it did not find enough evidence to hold [Annan] culpable, it did not say it found enough evidence to exonerate him."
What was also demonstrated is that Annan is guilty of ineptitude, conflict of interest, and deliberate neglect. When Kofi Annan boasted that the Volcker Commission "has cleared me of any wrongdoing," he boasted, in essence, that investigators had proved that he was clueless, not corrupt.
At the heart of the Volcker probe was the oil-for-food program. This scheme boiled down to UN officials, as well as international businessmen and diplomats, accepting bribes from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the form of oil allocations. The supposed rationale for the program, which occurred during an embargo of Baghdad, was to allow Iraq to sell oil to buy food and medicine. The $64 billion program predictably became a magnet for corruption and fraud, with the willing assistance of top United Nations personnel.
This report was the second issued by the Volcker Commission. (The first detailed the atrocious oversight of oil-for-food by the world body, including kickbacks to the head of ...
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