Saddam Got $21 Billion from UN Oil Program -U.S. Panel
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Saddam Hussein's regime reaped over  $21 billion from kickbacks and smuggling before and during the  now-defunct U.N. oil-for-food program, twice as much as  previous estimates, according to a U.S. Senate probe on Monday.
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Iraq wants the United Nations to lift all sanctions and stop using the country's oil revenue to pay compensation to victims of the 1991 Gulf War and the salaries of U.N. weapons inspectors, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday.
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An Iraqi-American conspired to act as an agent for Saddam Hussein by accepting millions of dollars in compensation and negotiating with United Nations officials to let Iraq sell oil, authorities said Tuesday.
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A US Senate panel has accused the former head of the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq of pocketing more than one million dollars in the scandal-plagued scheme.
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U.S. handling of Iraq's oil  money after the defeat of Saddam Hussein was marked by  weaknesses including problems tracking oil production and cash,  a watchdog told the U.N. Security Council on Friday, diplomats  said.
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein used illegal spoils from the UN oil-for-food program to pay cash rewards to the families of Palestinian terrorist bombers, according to congressional investigators.
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The Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein issued millions of dollars in lucrative oil export vouchers to leading French, Russian and other foreign politicians as part of a concerted effort to win their assistance in lifting UN sanctions against Iraq, a US weapons inspector said in a report made public here.
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The United Nations approved paying &#36;2.9 billion to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Thursday for environmental projects to clean up oil lakes and other pollution from Iraq's 1990-1991 occupation of Kuwait, a spokesman said.
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The United Nations has transferred $161 million from the defunct oil-for-food program to a development program for Iraq, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
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Our position is: United Nations must be more open about mistakes made in oil-for-food scandal. When the United Nations in 1996 began allowing Iraq to sell oil to raise money to buy food and medicine, the program
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The United States said it was releasing documents to the independent panel probing the United Nations' scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program, after the inquiry's chief complained about Washington's cooperation.
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The chairman of a House subcommittee investigating the United Nations&#39; oil-for-food program in Iraq said in a statement yesterday that Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s son received reimbursements
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A British oil trader was arrested Thursday on U.S. charges of paying bribes to Saddam Hussein as part of the discredited U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations diplomat who ran Iraq's "oil-for-food program" engaged in "ethically improper" behavior, and the program flouted the world body's financial and purchasing rules, a UN panel found in a preliminary report yesterday.
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The Central Intelligence Agency  on Wednesday released a list of firms and people from dozens of  countries allegedly given oil vouchers by Saddam Hussein's  government that could be turned into cash.
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Iraq's neighbors want tens of billions of dollars for environmental damage done in the 1990-1 Gulf conflict, but are set to get only paltry funds from the United Nations, diplomats and U.N. sources said on Friday.
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A Senate panel says it has obtained Iraqi documents providing new evidence that the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program made up to &#36;1.2 million through oil deals with Saddam Hussein's government.