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To: haqihana who wrote (74447)	10/2/2004 3:04:20 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793917

Oil-for-food plan sabotaged, report claims New York Times News Service Published October 2, 2004 Congressional investigators say France, Russia and China systematically sabotaged the former UN oil-for-food program in Iraq by preventing the United States and Britain from investigating whether Saddam Hussein was diverting billions of dollars. In a briefing paper given on Friday to members of the House subcommittee investigating the program, the investigators said their review of the minutes of a United Nations Security Council subcommittee meeting showed that the three nations "continually refused to support the U.S. and U.K. efforts to maintain the integrity" of the program. The program, set up in 1996, was an attempt to keep up international pressure on Hussein to disarm while helping the Iraqi people survive the sanctions imposed after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The briefing paper was prepared by the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, before hearings scheduled Tuesday on the scandal-ridden program, the second the subcommittee has held. Copyright © 2004, Chicago Tribune