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Re: Another assault on the UN dashed on the beaches
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:47:18 GMT
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I heard the R4 show Moniot refers to... it was quite scary:
“The BBC’s File On 4 programme has learnt that out of over $20bn raised in oil
revenues during US-led rule, the use of $8.8bn is unaccounted
for.”...more>>>
Scott A
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
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The ‘damning’ probe into the UN Oil for Food Programme fades away from the
popular press like a summer frost, but where is the spotlight on the financial
management of relief and reconstruction programmes?
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/02/08/fraud-and-corruption-/
Perhaps if nothing else, the UN knows how to deal with validated concerns as
to corruption and incompetence in the ranks.
(And is it just me, or there is something faintly ironic about the US publicly
going after the UN with such fervour from time to time, particularly in
relation to how the UN does wrong, what with the UN being a body which can
talk all it wants but actually do almost nothing without US agreement)
Richard
Still baldly going...
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| The 'damning' probe into the UN Oil for Food Programme fades away from the popular press like a summer frost, but where is the spotlight on the financial management of relief and reconstruction programmes? (URL) if nothing else, the UN knows how to (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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