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To: LindyBill who wrote (94480)	1/10/2005 4:08:27 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793822

NY Times Reports Bad News for Kofi By Bob Kohn File this under, "credit where credit is due": The New York Times finally put a Judith Miller story on the United nations oil-for-food scandal on the front page today. (One earlier report made the front page, but it that was during the presidential campaign and the article concerned the possible involvement of rich, Texas businessmen in the scandal). nytimes.com The article, headlined "Audits Criticize U.N. Handling of Oil-for-Food," actually mentions that charges of abuse in the progam have "ignited considerable anger in Washington, and even calls for Mr. Annan to resign." It was a straight-forward article with a straight-forward lead sentence (except for the strange, "so-called"): Internal United Nations audits of the so-called oil-for-food program in Iraq criticize an office, led by a former top aide to Secretary General Kofi Annan, for failing adequately to supervise and audit the companies hired to inspect the oil moving out of Iraq and goods going in under the multibillion-dollar program. Bill Keller, was that so hard?