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Article: Iraqi Governing Council has lists documenting recipients of payments from U.N. oil-for-food program, Kurdish leader says
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- May 1, 2004
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EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-01-2004
Dateline: UNITED NATIONS
The Iraqi Governing Council has lists naming people who allegedly received payments from the U.N. oil-for-food program while Saddam Hussein was in power, Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said.
The governing council hasn't decided yet whether to publish the names, he said Friday.
Asked whether any U.N. officials were on the list, Talabani said, "perhaps, but I cannot say" until the council makes a decision.
Allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program surfaced last January in the Iraqi newspaper Al-Mada and have intensified in recent months, calling into question the U.N.'s credibility and causing ...