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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (567283)	4/21/2004 12:55:26 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Perhaps you haven't heard, but neither Newt, Rush nor Bob are running for President (duh!)

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (567283)	4/21/2004 12:57:32 PM
From: jmhollen	Respond to of 769670

Gee, Dipy-doodle (& rejekt), why don't we rush right over and turn the sovereignty & security of the USA over to the U.N. also....... Wed 21 Apr 2004 3:41pm (UK) 'Saddam's Million Pound Bribes for Three UN Officials' By Mark Sage, PA News, in New York Three senior United Nations officials are believed to have taken millions of pounds in bribes from the Saddam Hussein’s regime as part of a scam involving the oil-for-food programme, it was reported today. Intelligence sources said the officials were linked to a scandal in which they were allowed to trade in cut-price oil under the humanitarian programme. Saddam was also found to have diverted £2.8 billion from the programme to his own bank accounts, according to ABC News. The oil-for-food programme was established in 1996, allowing Iraq to sell small quantities of oil in return for humanitarian aid. Iraq was being subjected to economic sanctions imposed after the first Gulf War, and human rights campaigners complained that ordinary Iraqis were suffering. The United Nations oversaw the programme, which was supposed to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people. But US and European intelligence sources said a hand-written letter, in Arabic, to the former Iraqi oil minister Amer Mohammed Rasheed implicated one of the senior UN officials. The official was said to have been allocated 7.3 million barrels of oil, which would have netted a profit for the official of nearly £2 million. The intelligence sources said two other senior UN members were suspected of involvement in the alleged scandal, although the evidence against them was not revealed. Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British adviser to the Iraq Governing Council, told ABC: “Somebody who is running the Oil-for-Food programme for the United Nations should not be receiving any benefit of any kind from a rogue dictator who was perpetuating terror in his country.” Earlier this week, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced an investigation into allegations of an oil-for-food scam. The probe will be headed by the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Paul Volcker. “We are going to investigate these allegations very seriously,” Mr Annan said. news.scotsman.com .