Saturday, October 02, 2004

3 Nations Slow Probe - Sound Familiar

The New York Times has a story about three (3) nations sabotaging the Congressional investigation of the United Nations oil-for-food program. Can you guess who some of them were?

Congressional investigators say that France, Russia and China systematically sabotaged the former United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq by preventing the United States and Britain from investigating whether Saddam Hussein was diverting billions of dollars.

In a briefing paper given yesterday to members of the House subcommittee investigating the program, the investigators said their review of the minutes of a United Nations Security Council subcommittee meeting showed that the three nations "continually refused to support the U.S. and U.K. efforts to maintain the integrity" of the program.


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