"..YeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaw,,", the sleazy United Nations Collective of Crooks' bribe-sucking bullschmidt is really going to hit the fan..!!! ...People will finally see what a seething, self-serving and unaccountable schdithole the U.N. really is...... (..which is why Wacko Liberal Demoncrats love it so -- it's just like giving money to Jesse Jackarse for kid's lunches; all you get is more Daddy-less babies needing a perpetual handout...)
Oil-for-food U.N. probe gets backing The Washington Post Thursday, April 22, 2004
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council endorsed Wednesday the work of a U.N.-appointed panel investigating allegations of corruption in a former U.N. humanitarian program that allowed Iraq to sell oil to buy food, medicine and civilian goods.
The U.N. resolution calls on the agency's 191 members to cooperate with the three-member panel, which is headed by Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman. But it would not compel companies or states suspected of paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government to answer the panel's questions or turn over documents.
Still, Volcker said he has sufficient authority to carry out a "full, fair" and "conclusive" investigation. He will provide a preliminary update on his findings in three months, but the probe would go on as long as necessary.
"You can't sit on this and let it fester," he said. "You've got to get it investigated and... if it shows something bad in the U.N., clean it up."
Volcker's panel was established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last week to probe charges that the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, and other U.N. officials illegally profited from it.
The panel will also examine wider charges that Iraq received $4.4 billion in illegal kickbacks from private companies for oil and humanitarian goods.
Meanwhile, Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., on Wednesday chaired a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing that he said would "help pierce the veil of secrecy that still shrouds the largest humanitarian aid program in history."
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