Probe: Saddam Made &#36;21B From U.N. Program
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Saddam Hussein's regime made more than &#36;21.3 billion in illegal revenue by subverting the U.N. oil-for-food program &#151; more than double previous estimates, according to congressional investigators.
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WASHINGTON - Undercutting the Bush's administration's rationale for invading Iraq, the final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector concludes that Saddam Hussein did not vigorously pursue a program to develop weapons of mass destruction when international inspectors left Baghdad in 1998, an administration official said Wednesday...
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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 United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has expressed concerns that materials and equipment from Saddam Hussein&#39;s former nuclear programme in Iraq have vanished without trace.
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Iraq made more than $21bn from corrupt oil and other deals, a US Senate panel hears - more than twice as much as previously thought.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 -- A United Nations-appointed investigator probing corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food program has rejected a request by a Senate committee to strip U.N. officials of their immunity so they can testify before Congress. The U.N. official agreed to release, at a time of his choosing, internal audits of the program and other confidential documents sought by Congress.
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The State Department finished an intensive review this week on how best to spend &#36;18.4 billion in U.S. aid to Iraq and may shift focus to smaller-scale projects, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The independent panel investigating alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq released the names of 248 companies on Thursday that received Iraqi oil and 3,545 companies ...
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Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture.
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Saddam Hussein's regime made more than &#36;21.3 billion in illegal revenue by subverting the U.N. oil-for-food program and other sanctions &#151; more than double previous estimates, according to congressional investigators.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was unaware his son received $30,000 a year for over five years from a Swiss-based company under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Saddam Hussein's regime made more than $21.3 billion in illegal revenue by subverting the U.N. oil-for-food program  --  more than double previous estimates, according to congressional investigators.
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Washington has said it will join Baghdad in a full investigation into missing machinery from Iraq&#39;s nuclear facilities, and Iraq&#39;s science minister has invited UN inspectors to the country.
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Drafts of a report from the top US inspector in Iraq conclude the country had no weapons stockpiles, but say there are signs Saddam Hussein had dormant programs he
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Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq wanted foreign cash to build thousands of concrete bunkers to bury dead Kurds, an Australian inquiry into abuses of the UN oil-for-food programme has heard.
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Failures in U.N. management of the Iraq oil-for-food program may have permitted excess payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to governments and companies, according to 55 internal audits of the humanitarian program. The excess payments were made even as then-President Saddam Hussein was stealing billions from the program.
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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