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Oil For Food

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  • 29-11-2004 8:45pm
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    Magnolia_Fan
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    Kofi Annan is withholding documents and witness testimony...suprise,suprise


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    sceptre
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    Any discussion on the sentence fragment above? (MF do you have a view?)
    Please remember that we are neither a news channel nor an announcement forum - if you are not willing to discuss what you post, then please don't post it.


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    gandalf
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    /me flips over the lens covers on his snipers rifle !


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    mike65
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    In an effort to protect MagnoliaFan from The Enemy On the Boards

    http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_ID=5851
    The UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said on Friday that Kojo Annan, the son of Secretary-General Kofi Annan received payments from a firm with a UN Iraqi oil-for-food contract about four years longer than the world body previously admitted.

    Eckhard said that Kojo Annan's lawyer told the panel probing alleged oil for food program corruption about the payments.

    "There is nothing illegal in this," Eckhard said referring to the payments from the Swiss firm Cotecna. However, it was an embarrassing situation for the United Nations to admit that its earlier information was wrong.

    Kojo Annan had earlier been named as a former employee of the Swiss corporation Cotecna until 1998, and it was known that he stopped receiving payments at the end of 1999. It wasn’t mentioned before that he was on the payroll until February 2003, just after the scandal surfaced.

    Something to pin Kofi Annans collar with? Maybe but only if he can be shown to be directly linked. Sins of the son....


    Thisisfun

    Mike.


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