Splits among the diplomats on the UN security council and flaws in the design of the oil for food programme played at least as much a part in what happened as negligence by UN officials or collusion in corruption by foreign firms trading with Iraq.I've got BBC News in a 'News' folder in the 'Favorites' shortcuts in IE. I may have to move it.
And it is often forgotten that most of Saddam Hussein's illicit income came from oil smuggling, not kickbacks on UN contracts.
Dealing with smuggling was mainly the job of the American navy, not the UN.
Friday, November 19, 2004
The BBC, unbelievable
Hard to fathom bias at the BBC in this story by Mark Gregory. The closing is a classic:
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