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    Annan's son admits oil sale role

    31jan05

    LONDON: The son of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has admitted he was involved in negotiations to sell millions of barrels of Iraqi oil under the regime of Saddam Hussein.

    Kojo Annan has told a friend he became involved in negotiations to sell 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil to a Moroccan company in 2001. He is understood to be co-operating with UN officials investigating the oil-for-food program.
    The claim will increase the pressure on Mr Annan, who is facing US calls for his resignation over management of the program, which allowed Iraq to sell oil to buy humanitarian supplies under UN supervision.

    But there have been claims the program was riddled with corruption as the Saddam regime used it to buy influence around the world.

    Several senior UN staff are alleged to have profited from the scheme, so the apparent connection between Kojo and the program has become the subject of intense international scrutiny. Critics claim Kofi faces a significant conflict of interest if Kojo sought to profit from the scheme.

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    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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    Heresay - Friend of Kojo -- The article presented is not credible as evidence of wrong doing by Mr. Kojo Annan
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    • #3
      Originally posted by tarek
      Heresay - Friend of Kojo -- The article presented is not credible as evidence of wrong doing by Mr. Kojo Annan
      Very true, tarek, this is not admissable legal evidence.

      But neither is the mere smell of a pig sty conclusive proof that pigs are present.

      But SOMEthing sure smells bad.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by tarek
        Heresay - Friend of Kojo -- The article presented is not credible as evidence of wrong doing by Mr. Kojo Annan
        The friend that was defending him?
        "But a friend of Kojo's said: "He has explained to the investigators that his only involvement with Cotecna was in Nigeria and that he knew nothing about the deal in Iraq." "

        I know what you're saying though. ;)
        Last edited by Confed999; 31 Jan 05,, 02:12.
        No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
        I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
        even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
        He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Bluesman
          But SOMEthing sure smells bad.
          Yep...
          No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
          I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
          even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
          He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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          • #6
            Kojo,did you took dem oil money?? Nossir,I did not took dem oil money...I get de donation for de good work...
            "They want to test our feelings.They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and their newspapers."

            Protester

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            • #7
              Update...

              Friday March 25, 09:18 PM

              Iraq oil report faults Annan over son's work

              NEW YORK (Reuters) - A key report on the Iraqi oil-for-food program next week is expected to clear U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan from personal wrongdoing but fault him for ignoring his son's work for a firm that sought a U.N. contract, says The Wall Street Journal.

              Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman appointed by Annan to investigate corruption in the program, is due to issue an interim report on Tuesday that will focus on whether the secretary-general influenced the bidding process in the U.N.-administered program, which ran from 1996 to 2003.

              A big problem for the secretary-general is expected to be the actions of his son Kojo, who worked in West Africa for the Swiss firm Cotecna Inspection, S.A., which received a lucrative contract from the United Nations for Iraq in early 1999.

              The Journal said on Friday that Annan would be faulted for not paying attention to conflicts of interest involving his son, Kojo, who used his father's name and position for personal gains while with Cotecna.

              At the same time, the panel is expected to conclude there is no evidence Annan rigged the U.N.'s procurement system or exerted undue influence over contractors or ever sought financial benefits, said the Journal, quoting people familiar with report's conclusions.

              Annan's new chief-of-staff, Mark Malloch Brown, had earlier told reporters, "We believe on Tuesday the secretary-general will be exonerated of any wrongdoing, but like you we have to wait for the report." But he said Annan's son had admitted that "he misled his father."

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              No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
              I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
              even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
              He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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              • #8
                Tarek,

                Nice to see you back. Missed your posts.

                Confed,

                This report will embarass Kofi, but unless stated in court it is of no use sadly.


                "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

                I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

                HAKUNA MATATA

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                • #9
                  annan family is full of bastards who steal money. why does dummy united states people give moneys to annan to steal and all this oil. do not follow this bastard man any farther or you will have stealed moneys.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Lickenmueller
                    annan family is full of bastards who steal money. why does dummy united states people give moneys to annan to steal and all this oil. do not follow this bastard man any farther or you will have stealed moneys.
                    Why does dummy German person think United States people give moneys to Annan? Many United States people not piss on Annan if Annan on fire.

                    Are you drunk?

                    -dale

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                    • #11
                      i see in the news where usa makes good with united nations. united nations is doggy shits.

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                      • #12
                        me surprised you follow news at all. Is not news on at same time as WWF pro wrestling?

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                        • #13
                          Rambo reincarnation, he has been banned.

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                          • #14
                            Thank god.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Ray
                              Confed,

                              This report will embarass Kofi, but unless stated in court it is of no use sadly.
                              If the preview of this report is correct, Kofi should be cleared of any wrong doings, other than the conflict of interest that has allready embarassed him.
                              No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
                              I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
                              even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
                              He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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