11/21/2004 07:38:09 AM|||Toni|||Think maybe Kofi benefited from this scandal??

Initial inquiries by the interim Iraqi government, an independent U.N. panel, and U.S. House and Senate committees have discovered that Saddam Hussein illegally diverted $10 billion, meant for food and medical supplies, to his own pockets and purposes. Before he was deposed, the Iraqi dictator might have gained another $11 billion from oil smuggling outside the U.N. program.
In effect, Saddam was able to do the very thing the U.N. economic sanctions and oil-for-food program were meant to prevent: He used his country's oil wealth to benefit himself and his cronies and to buy arms to repress his people.
|||110104440905893326|||Ever Wonder Why Kofi Denigrates US Policies??