Come Clean, Kofi

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/column.../?id=110005904

Mr. Annan, by contrast, seems to inhabit a different universe--one in which the chief problem lies not in the U.N.'s complicity, including his own, in the biggest fraud in the history of humanitarian relief, but rather in the attempts to shine any light on all that sleaze. In Annan Land, there was earlier this year no need for any probe into Oil for Food; and even now there is no need for any investigating beyond the U.N.'s own "independent inquiry" into itself, led by former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, required to funnel its findings first through Mr. Annan, funded to the tune of $30 million out of one of the old Oil for Food accounts it is supposed to be investigating, and not planning to clock in with any specific results until sometime next summer.

In the spirit of shooting the messenger, Mr. Annan has complained often in recent months about criticism of Oil for Food, denouncing it as a "campaign" that has "hurt the U.N." Monday's Oil for Food hearing evoked from Mr. Annan's spokesman, Fred Eckhard, the comment that Mr. Annan feels he has been "misjudged by certain media" and that Mr. Annan is "not being obstructionist" in his refusal to cooperate with congressional investigators. We are given to understand that Mr. Annan would help if he could, but his job entails so many over-riding responsibilities.

I think we need to say the with diplomatic immunity. Kofi, his son, and the rest of his oil for food BS crew need to be locked up for a very long time.

[Hook Dem]

Just how long will we allow this crap to exist?

[Yonivore]

Just how long will we allow this crap to exist?

I truly believe the U.S. should abandon the U.N. and condemn the property -- sending all the diplomats packing.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

More...

http://www.aina.org/news/20041117112056.htm

"Included are a remnant of the defunct global criminal bank, BCCI, while another was close to the Taliban while bin Laden was on the rise in Afghanistan, and a third was linked to a bank in the Bahamas involved in Al Qaeda's financial network; a fourth had a close connection to one of Saddam's would-be nuclear bomb makers."

Fred Gedrich, a Senior UN and Foreign Policy Analyst at Freedom Alliance, believes that "the UN created an environment where Saddam could funnel large sums of money to terrorists and terrorist organizations to the detriment of humanity and civilization?"

The connections between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein are still not completely clear. Hopefully, the Senate investigations will reveal these connections in the weeks and months ahead.