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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A US Senate panel has accused the former head of the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq of pocketing more than one million dollars in the scandal-plagued scheme.
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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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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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Russian firms bought about 30 percent of the oil sold under Iraq&#39;s now-defunct oil-for-food program, according to a UN investigator&#39;s extensive list of companies that did business with Saddam Hussein&#39;s government.
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The UN oil-for-food programme in Saddam Hussein's Iraq was "tainted", an inquiry report will say.
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Iraq's national security adviser says he is shocked by Kofi Annan's claim that Iraqis are worse off than under Saddam.
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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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In a few years, Iraq will be a distant, if painful memory. Our new focus almost certainly will be on Iran and North Korea. In the strange way that geopolitics
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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 that exported goods to Saddam Hussein's government.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraq now ranks as the second-most unstable country in the world, worse than war-ravaged or poverty-stricken countries such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti, and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed States index issued yesterday by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace.
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Iraq has one of the world's largest oil reserves, but the Iraqi army can't get enough fuel for its tanks. It also can't get spare parts for its trucks or supply ammunition on its own.
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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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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he was &quot;very disappointed and surprised&quot; that his son had continued to receive payments until this February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq&#39;s oil-for-food program, the subject of numerous
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations diplomat who ran Iraq's "oil-for-food program" engaged in "ethically improper" behavior, and the program flouted the world body's financial and purchasing rules, a UN panel found in a preliminary report yesterday.
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NEW YORK -- The top US arms inspector accused the former head of the $60 billion UN oil-for-food program of accepting bribes in the form of vouchers for Iraqi oil sales from Saddam Hussein's government while running the program, according to a report released yesterday.
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Iraq is a quagmire, steadily getting worse, as anyone who reads the newspaper knows. Attacks against US forces, our allies, and Iraqis seen to be collaborating with us, are on the rise, alarmingly so.