Article: Oil for fraud: What's Kofi Annan hiding?

The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, Nov. 24:

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Staffers at U.N. headquarters in New York, disgusted over what they see as Secretary-General Kofi Annan's corrupt management, came close last week to casting a formal vote of no confidence against him.

We know how they feel. Annan has presided over the largest scandal in the U.N.'s history: the abuse of the Oil for Food program, which originally was designed to starve Saddam Hussein's regime via economic sanctions without starving the people of Iraq. In the wake of Saddam's defeat, various U.S. investigations have revealed it to be part of a scam of ...

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