More Oil for Food Corruption

Niles Lathem has details of yet more UN personnel named as taking "kickbacks" in the "Oil for Food Lottery". I am beginning to see why the UN called the American government STINGY earlier this week, and I don't believe it had anything to do with our relief aid... Here are some snippets.

Iraqi officials have recently implicated more U.N. staffers in bribe taking during the oil-for-food program in a development that could dramatically escalate pressure on the world body...

Investigators from the House International Relations Committee said several current and former officials in Iraq's Oil, Health and Transportation ministries have told them that U.N. staffers assigned to the "661 Committee" — the U.N. Security Council group that oversaw sanctions and approved oil-for-food contracts — regularly took bribes and kickbacks from suppliers of aid to Iraq during the program. (Read here)