AP: Saddam Abused Oil-For-Food Program
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Interviews with dozens of former and current Iraqi officials by congressional investigators have produced new evidence that Saddam Hussein micromanaged business deals under the U.N. oil-for-food program to maximize political influence with important foreign governments like Russia and neighboring Arab states.
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The Bush administration, which  earlier backed Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the U.N.  oil-for-food scandal, on Tuesday demanded he be held  accountable for mismanagement in the program.
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According to the U.N.-ordered inquiry led by Paul Volcker, these are the top 10 countries that purchased oil from Iraq under the oil-for-food program from 1996 until 2003:
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New York (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Like an oil slick in the sea, the scandal related to the Oil-for-food (OFF) programme is getting bigger and bigger.
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Two separate reports have recently surfaced describing in greater detail allegations of corruption in the United Nations-administered oil-for-food (OFF) program in Iraq and the so-called "oil voucher" scheme by ...
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday admitted allegations about the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was not on a hunger strike, the US military said Sunday. File video footage released on December 14, 2004 shows Saddam Hussein having his
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GENEVA - The UN-ordered probe into oil-for-food corruption is being seriously hampered by an elaborate system of ghost firms set up around the world to cover the tracks of bribes to Saddam Hussein as he cheated the $60 billion program, a top investigator
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AMSTERDAM A Dutch businessman will face genocide charges for allegedly supplying Saddam Hussein&#39;s government with chemicals used to make poison gas that killed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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A probe into the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq said the director of the operation got oil allocations for a firm run by a friend, and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan vowed to discipline him.
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The chairman of a congressional committee contended Monday that U.N. officials "encouraged, or at least tacitly condoned," President Saddam Hussein's widespread abuse of Iraq's oil-for-food relief program.
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France's BNP Paribas received hundreds of millions of dollars from the scandal-plagued UN Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, while possibly ignoring rampant abuses in the program, a top US lawmaker charged.
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Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, say congressional investigators who uncovered evidence of the money trail.
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The man leading an independent investigation into alleged corruption in the United Nationsâ oil-for-food programme said most of the money illegally obtained by Saddam Hussein came from smuggling, much of which the UN Security Council knew about but did
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Russian firms bought about 30 percent  of the oil sold under Iraq's now-defunct oil-for-food program,  according to a U.N. investigator's extensive list of companies  that did business with Saddam Hussein's government.
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It was January when a small Baghdad newspaper got a big scoop. Editor's Note: this is the final story in a series of articles about the U.N. Oil-for-Food program.
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Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. While he certainly harbored ambitions to get them, the Iraqi programs to build them had decayed to become mere wisps of what they once were.