Iraq&#39;s Oil-For-Food Program -- Much Worse Than We Thought
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I last wrote about the &quot;Oil-for-Food&quot;program in Iraq in May shortly after the United Nations (UN) engaged former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker to conduct an internal investigation of the scandal.
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Marching top officials of Saddam Hussein&#39;s Sunni-based Baathist dictatorship through an Iraqi courtroom a little more than five weeks before the election of a legitimate Iraqi government is such a breathtakingly bad idea that you would almost think it had
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Independent investigators looking into alleged corruption in the Iraq oil-for-food program said Monday they would check into allegations that victims of Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait are being overcompensated by about &#36;4 billion.
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NEW YORK: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted yesterday he was &quot;disappointed&quot; over revelations his son Kojo received payments under the controversial oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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The world&#39;s oil supply has never seemed so precarious. The war in Iraq has cast a shadow over that country&#39;s ability to export crude.
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The most wicked acts are spoken of openly and without reserve in Iraq. Rape is different.
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A US senator who in December called for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to resign raised doubts about an audit of the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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The fighting in Fallujah, and daily terrorist attacks by Saddam loyalists and Islamist extremists, paint a grim picture of today&#39;s Iraq.
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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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A new US intelligence report gives a more gloomy view of Iraq's future than Bush administration statements.
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Jonathan Steele on why occupying Iraq was doomed from the start
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MARK COLVIN: There&#39;s a growing campaign, particularly in the US, to force the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to resign following allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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New Pentagon estimates of the Iraqi insurgency&#39;s numbers and funding reveal a military challenge vastly more daunting than anything planned for.
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Washington&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations has urged Secretary-General Kofi Annan to promptly release all information concerning the scandal-ridden Iraq oil-for-food program.
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An Iraqi-American illegally acted as  an agent for Iraq under Saddam Hussein and received millions of  dollars worth of oil from the country's U.N. oil-for-food  program, U.S. court documents showed on Tuesday.
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The Iraqis who signed up to help the Americans are losing faithâand often their lives. One family's story.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 22 -- A U.N.-appointed investigator probing corruption in the world body's oil-for-food program in Iraq published today a list of all 4,734 companies that traded with Saddam Hussein's government through the arrangement. The 300-page list provides the most comprehensive public account to date of Iraq's business dealings under the former program, under which Iraq was allowed to sell oil to purchase humanitarian supplies.