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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The United Nations overpaid by as much  as $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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The internal U.N. watchdog will look into allegations that a U.N. office steered millions of dollars in contributions from the Italian government to projects benefiting Italian nationals and interests, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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U.S. officials are investigating allegations that an Iraqi lawmaker took part in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait and is a conduit for Iranian weapons and supplies smuggled to Shiite militias, a U.S. spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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The UN nuclear agency said yesterday that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons 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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U.S. air strikes killed a family of six in an attack meant for fighters loyal to a self-declared al Qaeda ally, while one of the world's largest aid agencies suspended operations in Iraq after its manager was kidnapped.
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Indonesia offered cash rewards on Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of two top Malaysian suspects in a string of bombings, including the deadly blast at the Australian embassy in Jakarta last week.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annanâs son was paid more than Â£16,000 a year for five years by a company under investigation in the UNâs Iraq oil-for-food programme corruption probe.
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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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WASHINGTON -- At least $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds given to Iraqi ministries by the former US-led authority there cannot be accounted for, according to a draft US audit set for release soon.
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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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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday began offering tens of thousands of dollars in payments to the victims of the Sept. 16 shootings in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide security guards, according to relatives and U.S. officials.
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The U.N. Security Council has given a green light to U.N. investigators to help probe last week's killing of an anti-Syrian lawmaker in a massive car bombing in Beirut.
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The inquiry into the killing of   a former Lebanese prime minister has asked several countries to   help identify the presumed suicide bomber from a tooth and   other pieces of DNA, the chief investigator told the U.N.   Security Council on Friday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was &quot;very disappointed and surprised&quot; that his son received payments until February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq&#39;s oil-for-food program that is the subject of numerous corruption investigations.
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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