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2004-10-24 International-UN-NGOs

Kofi Annan's role in oil-for-food scandal

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-24 7:19:04 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Are Kofi Annan and Benon Sevan Moslems?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-24 7:42:14 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-10-24 7:42:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Not only is his middle name of "Atta" suppressed in the UN websites, so is his religion. Wiki however mentioned them, I believe. Why? This ugly man should ne nicely investigated.

Posted by wits0 2004-10-24 10:15:56 PM|| 2004-10-24 10:15:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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Mr Claude Hankes-Drielsma has been Chairman of the Windsor Leadership Trust since 1998. He is currently advisor to Iraq, Chairman of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Trustee to St Georgeâs House, Windsor Castle.

Former appointments include: Director for Robert Fleming & Co Ltd and Chairman of the Management Committee of PriceWaterhouse & Partners.

Claude Hankes-Drielsma is an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and St Georgeâs College, Windsor Castle. He is also Chairman of the Support Group, Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum and a Patron of the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He is a member of Getty Villa Council, Los Angeles.

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Electric Hermit: The man who started the whole thing is Claude Hankes-Drielsma -- a rather dubious character and close ally of the Bush regime's former favourite to replace Saddam Hussein as dictator, Ahmed Chalabi. On 27 May, 2004 Hankes-Drielsma was interviewed for the BBC by Tim Sebastian. From the outset it is clear that there is nothing whatever to substantiate the allegations that have been made against the UN. Which is not to say there won't be when the official investigation is concluded. But the man who is making the allegations is not someone I would trust. Judge for yourself.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-10-24 11:17:34 PM|| 2004-10-24 11:17:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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Joshua Micah Marshall: .... Francis Brooke, Ahmed Chalabi's long-time Washington handler, lobbyist and press maven, is the subject of an arrest warrant in Iraq. But he's absconded, if that's the right word, back to Washington.

I don't know quite what to make of this. The charge seems to be that he obstructed the raid on Chalabi's INC headquarters in some fashion. But it's not clear from the article that he did anything more than give the Iraqi police executing the warrant some grief. Nor is it clear, from the context, why that should be a crime.

.... the Washington Post has some follow-up on Brooke's warrant. The real nugget, however, is this passage tucked down at the bottom of the article ...

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Last night, it emerged that on the same day as the raid, computer files belonging to the British consultant investigating the oil-for-food scandal were destroyed by hackers and a back-up databank in his Baghdad office wiped out. Claude Hankes Drielsma, a British businessman and long-time acquaintance of Mr Chalabi, accused America and Britain of mounting a "dirty tricks" campaign to obstruct his inquiry. "I think you have to expect this to happen with events of the magnitude of those we are dealing with," he said.

His report on oil-for-food, written for the international accounting company KPMG, was due to be released in three weeks but its publication has been delayed for at least three months, he said. "This report would have been even more damning than anticipated. This would not sit comfortably with the political agenda in Washington or London. I believe that what Washington wants is to keep the lid on things until after the presidential election. The White House believes that the report will be detrimental to President Bush's re-election campaign.
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... the charges relating to the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq all stem from documents which Ahmed Chalabi says he has and says are valid, but which none but his political associates have been allowed to see. Hankes Drielsma is a longtime Chalabi crony from the UK who Chalabi brought in to run his own investigation of the documents. .... In any case, basing an international scandal on documents which Ahmed Chalabi assures you he has but for some reason won't show you would seem a rather dubious proposition in the first place. But, if I read that passage from the Telegraph article correctly, Hankes Drielsma seems to be saying, in essence, that both his hard-drives exploded, that for some inexplicable reason it's America's fault, that the report was going to be incredibly damning, but now all the data is gone so it's going to be months, if not longer, till he can pull the evidence back together.

Am I missing something, or is this the dog ate my homework?
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-10-24 11:31:35 PM|| 2004-10-24 11:31:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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