Probe: Iraq U.N. Cash Sent to Bombers' Kin
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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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Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said the United Nations will use &#36;30 million in revenue from the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq to pay the initial bill for the independent investigation of corruption allegations in the program.
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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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United Nations chief Kofi Annan has come under fire over revelations that his son was paid by a Swiss company that had a contract under the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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U.S. officials are investigating the deaths of two American contractors who were ambushed last month in Iraq after one of them told government officials he was concerned about his financial dealings with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
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The UN nuclear agency has warned that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tonnes of missing explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted US-led coalition forces for months.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 17  - France&#39;s BNP Paribas received hundreds of millions of dollars from the scandal-plagued UN Oil-for-Food programme in Iraq, apparently while ignoring rampant abuses in the programme, a top US lawmaker charged Wednesday.
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The U.N. refugee agency is more than doubling its annual appeal for funds to help Iraqis fleeing their homes to $123 million from $60 million, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Kojo Annan, son of UN secretary general Kofi Annan, was paid $2,500 a month for over five years by a Swiss firm which had a contract under the UN&#39;s scandal ridden Iraqi &#39;oil for food&#39; program, report agencies.
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The U.N. special rapporteur on  extrajudicial killings said on Friday he plans to investigate  deaths caused by the U.S. military and contractors in Iraq,  including the recent Blackwater case in Baghdad.
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THE United Nations atomic watchdog confirmed last night that huge amounts of conventional explosives that have disappeared from an Iraqi military facility could be used to set off a nuclear bomb.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A suicide bomber was probably responsible for the blast that killed 22 people at a US military base here, the US military said, as Karbala police said they had arrested five Iraqis and one foreigner linked to a deadly bombing in the
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A United Nations investigation has concluded that a U.N. official took kickbacks such as low-cost apartments for steering lucrative contracts to a company from his native India.
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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 United Nations overpaid by as much as &#36;5 billion to individuals, companies and Gulf states for losses in Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, auditors' documents showed on Sunday.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday that he was unaware his son, Kojo, received as much as $150,000 in payments from a Swiss company while it profited from the U.N.-run oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Britain's charity watchdog said Saturday it was examining claims that several suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic jets were linked by their involvement with an aid group that raised money for victims of last year's devastating earthquake in Pakistan.