UNSCAM May Cause Kofi's Undoing!

[Annie]

Always, always be careful of whom you are stabbing in the back!

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/47719.htm

June 4, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — The lawyer for a U.N. staffer fired for wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal insisted yesterday that his client acted on orders of higher-ups and is being used as a "scapegoat" to take the heat off Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other bigwigs.

Coming out swinging two days after his client was canned, the lawyer for Cypriot mid-level bureaucrat Joseph Stephanides said he plans a major battle against U.N. leadership to get reinstated and refute charges he engaged in "serious misconduct" in the award of a lucrative inspection contract to a British firm.

Lawyer George Irving told The Post Stephanides was "essentially the messenger" when he warned the British mission to the United Nations in 1996 that the company Lloyd's Register needed to substantially lower its tender in order to beat out a French firm that submitted the lowest bid.

The commission investigating the oil-for-food scandal headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker charged Stephanides was acting independently during his talks with the British mission.

But Irving provided The Post with internal documents dated in August 1996 that show Stephanides made at least five superiors aware that Lloyd's was better-suited to handle the oil-for-food inspection contract and that he was recommending that it lower the cost of the bid.

"My client has been made a scapegoat to divert attention from others," Irving said.

 

[Bullypulpit]

Scapegoats...plenty of those coming out of Abu Ghraib. Just some grunts taking it in the neck for the sins of their leaders.

 

[Annie]

Scapegoats...plenty of those coming out of Abu Ghraib. Just some grunts taking it in the neck for the sins of their leaders.

Bully you are losing it, (how many times have I written that?) What does the one have to do with the other? Are you moonlighting writing copy for Reuters? I'm getting whiplash here!

 

[Bullypulpit]

Bully you are losing it, (how many times have I written that?) What does the one have to do with the other? Are you moonlighting writing copy for Reuters? I'm getting whiplash here!

The Bush Administraiton has been seeking a means to oust Annan ever since he first spoke in opposition to the war in Iraq, and especially since he named it for what it is...an illegal war.

Wheels within wheels dear lady...It's all tied in to the Administration's Iraq policy.

Oh, and don't forget...The New York Post is a Rupert Murdoch paper...He's a loyal Fan O' Dubbyuh

 

[Annie]

The Bush Administraiton has been seeking a means to oust Annan ever since he first spoke in opposition to the war in Iraq, and especially since he named it for what it is...an illegal war.

Wheels within wheels dear lady...It's all tied in to the Administration's Iraq policy.

Oh, and don't forget...The New York Post is a Rupert Murdoch paper...He's a loyal Fan O' Dubbyuh

On your last point Bully, 'so what?' If it's not true, trust me, THAT would get reported!

What happened in that prison was wrong, but the military was investigating and charging those involved long before it became a story because of pics. You know it, I know it, you just want to bash Bush.

So Bully, you think the whole Oil-for-Food scandal is a cover-up? A diversion? What?

 

[Bullypulpit]

On your last point Bully, 'so what?' If it's not true, trust me, THAT would get reported!

What happened in that prison was wrong, but the military was investigating and charging those involved long before it became a story because of pics. You know it, I know it, you just want to bash Bush.

So Bully, you think the whole Oil-for-Food scandal is a cover-up? A diversion? What?

It is indeed a diversion. It is diverting attention from the involvement of US oil companies, including <a href=http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11569>Exxon, Chevron, El Paso</a> and BayOil, all of which either recieved oil-vouchers from Saddam's regime. Or, as in <a href=http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11569>BayOil's</a> case was found to have helped Russian politcians make a fast buck from the Oil-For-Food Program.

And let's not forget the $8.9 billion that vanished down the rabbit-hole while J. Paul Bremmer was doing his stint as Pro-Consul in Iraq. The UN Oil-For-Food scandal is a drop in the bucket by comparison, so why isn't that being pursued with equal zeal by Congressional invesitgators or the "Main Stream Media"...Hmmm?