Iraq Protests U.N. Decision on Probe

UNITED NATIONS - Iraq (news - web sites) has protested a U.N. decision to use $30 million in revenue from the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq to help pay for the investigation of alleged corruption in the humanitarian effort.



In a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Samir Sumaidiaie argued that Security Council resolutions don't support the use of oil-for-food money "for an investigation into the internal practices of the United Nations (news - web sites) in carrying out its duties."


"My government believes that the use of such funds has no legal basis," he said in a letter dated Nov. 19 to U.S. Ambassador John Danforth, the current Security Council president.


Last month, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) told the council that money for the probe headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve (news - web sites) chairman Paul Volcker would come from an account earmarked to pay U.N. administrative and operational costs for the embattled humanitarian program.

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,...and, in spite of the unnecessary oppression brought to bear,...by a country that occupied their soil, upon pretentious grounds,...

,...they actually complain about a mere several million to ascertain who took advantage of them,...before they lost their blood and treasure to a country whose leader is an oil-sucking, deceptive, grandson-of-a-fascist-sucking-capitalist!!!

How,...awful.