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To: Road Walker who wrote (248935)	9/3/2005 11:56:03 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1574001

Inquiry said to hit Annan on oil-for-food abuses Boston Globe ^ \| September 3, 2005 \| Maggie Farley UNITED NATIONS -- Investigators have confronted Secretary General Kofi Annan with findings of their probe into the $64 billion Iraqi oil-for-food program that conclude that he bore primary responsibility for mismanagement and faulted him for not acting to halt suspected abuses by contractors and laxity by member states, according to diplomats who spoke to Annan after the meeting. The investigators, led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, are due to issue a public report Wednesday about abuses in the relief program. A committee spokesman said it would be at least 700 pages long and would also examine the responsibility of Security Council members who knowingly allowed Saddam Hussein to reap billions from smuggling and kickbacks. (Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...