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The News Center
January 5, 2018
He was detailed to the Defense Department during Operation Iraqi Freedom and served in Iraq and Qatar. He served a second deployment in Iraq while assigned to the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations probe into the United Nation's failed Oil-for-Food Program. James was also aÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 30, 2017
Three years later, Downer was forced to give evidence at an inquiry investigating who knew what about AWB's involvement in the Iraq “oil for food” scandal. He denied any knowledge of AWB's activities. Downer remains the shortest-serving Liberal leader in the party's history, holding the leadership for lessÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
December 24, 2017
Analysts in the Kurdistan Region label the decision as part of the collective punitive measures imposed by the Iraqi government on Kurdistan in response to the historic independence referendum. The ration card is related to the Oil-for-Food Programme established by the United Nations in 1995 under the UN SecurityÃÂ ...
Financial Tribune
December 23, 2017
Its diplomatic relations with other states were cut, and it lost control of its financial resources and oil exports, which were placed under UN supervision under the oil for food program. A significant proportion of its revenues were used to pay states harmed by its Kuwait invasion. Kuwaiti Oil Minister EssamÃÂ ...
The Federalist
December 22, 2017
The independent commission investigated the UN's then-largest humanitarian aid program, the oil for food program established in 1995 to allow Iraq to sell oil in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs. The 2005 investigation of this program discovered massive corruption involvingÃÂ ...
The Conversation AU
December 18, 2017
The act came in response to the recommendations of the 2006 inquiry into the involvement of Australian companies – mainly the Australian Wheat Board – in kickbacks to the Iraqi government for the sale of wheat to Iraq under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. UN sanctions against North Korea commencedÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 9, 2017
Ready-to-eat nutritious biscuits provided to Iraqi children by the World Food Program in partnership with the UN Oil-for-Food Program. ... ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United Nations Security Council announced on Friday that all measures imposed in the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq had been fullyÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
December 8, 2017
The Security Council concluded today that all the measures imposed in its resolutions 1958 (2010) and 2335 (2016) pursuant to Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in relation to the Iraq oil-for-food programme had been fully implemented. Unanimously adopting resolution 2390 (2017), theÃÂ ...
Williamson Daily News
December 31, 1999
He was detailed to the U.S. Department of Defense during Operation Iraqi Freedom and served in Iraq and Qatar. He also served a second deployment in Iraq when assigned to the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations probe into the United Nations' failed Oil-for-Food Program.
Kurdistan24
December 9, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced the end of Iraq's obligation of the Oil-for-Food program within Chapter VII of the United Nations charter. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, prompting the UN Security Council to place Iraq in Chapter VII of the UN Charter, ...
Reliefweb
December 9, 2017
The Security Council concluded today that all the measures imposed in its resolutions 1958 (2010) and 2335 (2016) pursuant to Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in relation to the Iraq oil-for-food programme had been fully implemented. Unanimously adopting resolution 2390 (2017), the ...
Newsweek
December 7, 2017
FE_Turkey_01_850819128 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C-L) meets with US President Donald Trump (C-R) as part of his bilateral meetings, at Lotte Hotel in New York, United States on September 21, 2017. World leaders gathered in New York for the 72nd Session of the UN General ...
Aljazeera.com
December 7, 2017
Saleh himself was not shy about demanding his own cut and was notably known to have received oil-for-food coupons from Saddam Hussein in the nineties. ... Yemenis were among the highest numbers of foreign fighters who joined the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq during the American occupation. Throwing ...
gulfnews.com
December 6, 2017
2005 - Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh resigns over oil-for-food scam. 2006 - Joseph Kabila is sworn in as Congo's first democratically elected president. 2014 - Britain signs agreement to open a permanent naval base in Bahrain. 2015 - Yemen's southern Aden province Governor Jaafar Mohammad ...
Kurdistan24
December 1, 2017
“The people who are claiming to be Iraqi soldiers are really nothing more than the stooges of the Iranian mullah regime.” ... In that capacity, he led a Congressional investigation into the UN's notoriously corrupt “Oil For Food” program, after the toppling of Iraq's Ba'athist regime. On Thursday, Rohrabacher ...
Salon
November 28, 2017
Republican phrases similarly include poll-tested partisan language such as “death tax,” “illegal aliens,” “oil for food scandal” and “personal retirement accounts,” but also neutral language referring to the names of courts and justices. Again, there are phrases that reflect issue priorities but not biased analysis ...
CPI Financial
November 27, 2017
Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) has opened a representative office in Abu Dhabi, making it the only Iraqi Trade Finance bank to have a presence in the UAE. ... after the end of the United Nation's oil-for-food programme and has gone ...
Courthouse News Service
November 9, 2017
... oil payments to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will have a tough ... diverted money from the United Nations Oil for Food program to pay ...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
November 7, 2017
... Glencore had just begun paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government for oil ... UN's Oil For Food program, the 2005 Volcker report concluded (Glencore ... gave to its bankers never to divulge its connection with Iraq oil sales.
New York Times
October 17, 2017
The Iraqi health ministry's headquarters and hospitals were ... part of an oil-for-food program sponsored by the United Nations that was found to ...
The Indian Express
October 4, 2017
... lakh penalty on a Jodhpur-based company in the 2001 Iraqi oil-for-food ... under the oil-for-food programme run by the United Nations in Iraq.
Al-Arabiya
August 20, 2017
Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak has announced a Russian oil-for-food deal with Iran that will be implemented next month by buying ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 9, 2017
... in payments to the Iraqi government, against United Nations sanctions ... company sold wheat to Iraq under the UN's Oil-For-Food program.
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
Take Iraq, for example – the USA imposed unmerciful sanctions on it, ... sell oil for fresh Eurodollars on the basis of the “Oil for Food” program.
The New Arab
August 17, 2017
The controversial “Oil for Food” programme, backed by the United Nations, took Iraqi oil while giving Iraqis substandard goods and medicalÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
August 8, 2017
In a press conference, Al-Abadi said Iraq has already finalized the issue of oil-for-food with the United Nations, but that compenstations owed toÃÂ ...
Medical Xpress
July 24, 2017
The sanctions remained in place after the Iraqi army was expelled, ... in Iraq by permitting the sale of oil, known as the Oil for Food Programme.
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
July 22, 2017
... with another director, Jaya Sudhir Jayaram, who has a history of questionable dealings such as “exploiting the Iraqi oil-for-food programme”.
The News International
June 23, 2017
If these documents are genuine, and the oil-for-food allegations are proven ... Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to boost its military capabilities.
CNN
December 31, 1999
... instead setting up an account, along the lines of the UN Iraqi Oil-for-Food program, that would let the government only use the money to buyÃÂ ...
Middle East Online
March 24, 2017
Not only did Iraqis fail to see any real positive change in their circumstances but the opposite occurred, with the Iraqi people looking on as their country was torn apart, its constituent peoples each pulled in different directions and within the ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 14, 2017
The AWB's contracts with the Iraqi Grain Board under the United Nations oil-for-food program were inflated by disguised inland transportation fees, a scandal uncovered after the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam in 2003. ASIC failed to ...
Venture Magazine
March 14, 2017
This began in the early 1980's when it was one of the main carriers transporting cargo into Iraq through Aqaba, during the Iran-Iraq War; then in the 1990s, CMA CGM became one of the official carriers that delivered cargo into Iraq under the 'Oil for ...
The West Australian
March 14, 2017
AWB's contracts with the Iraqi Grain Board under the UN oil-for-food program were inflated by disguised inland transportation fees, a scandal uncovered after the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam in 2003. ASIC failed to convince Justice RossÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 14, 2017
Asic alleged that Geary breached his duties as an officer by not taking reasonable steps to prevent AWB improperly using money from the UN's oil-for-food program to pay compensation to Iraq for contaminated wheat and help another company, TigrisÃÂ ...
Lawfuel (blog)
February 12, 2017
Advising on corruption allegations arising out of the UN Iraq Oil for Food Program. Representing senior executives of a petroleum services company in foreign corruption investigations by the DOJ and the SEC into activities in Nigeria, Kazakhstan andÃÂ ...
Jamaica Observer
February 9, 2017
1974: Iraq claims that 70 Iranians were killed or wounded in border clash between Iraqi and Iranian troops. 1991: Peruvian health ministry announces that at least 51 people have died of cholera in epidemic ... 2006: The United States suspends Australia ...
Jamaica Observer
January 29, 2017
2005: Secretary General Kofi Annan suspends the head of the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq and a senior UN official who dealt with contracts following an independent investigation that accused them of misconduct.
Stabroek News
January 28, 2017
... Nations' dismal catalogue of failure in recent years: the moral and military debacle in Bosnia, the egregious human rights violations by U.N.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 17, 2017
Examples include US opposition to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's plan to trade oil in Euros, to Iraq's establishing trade ties directly in Euros during the lifting of the failed Oil-for-Food program in the 1990's, and to the attempt of Muammar ...
Gatestone Institute
January 11, 2017
No one has yet been made accountable for the $100 billion "oil for food" scandal, and peacekeepers still dole out food to children in exchange for sex.
Gulf Today
January 8, 2017
The UN mission in Iraq (UNAMI) has reported at least 6,878 Iraqi civilians were slain last year and 12,388 were injured.
Voice of America
December 31, 2016
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan marked 2004 as his own annus horribilis after months of corruption allegations related to the U.N.
Tehran Times
December 30, 2016
... will be held later on Friday immediately after an open session that will review a draft resolution on prolonging the UN's Oil-for-Food Program (OIP), which was established in 1995 to help Iraq exchange oil for food, medicine, and other humanitarian ...
RT
December 30, 2016
... will be held later on Friday immediately after an open session that will review a draft resolution on prolonging the UN's Oil-for-Food Program (OIP), which was established in 1995 to help Iraq exchange oil for food, medicine, and other humanitarian ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 29, 2016
And the U.N. inquiry into the scandal around the Iraqi oil-for-food program concluded that more than half of the 4,500 companies participating paid kickbacks enabling Saddam Hussein to pocket $1.8 billion - and he earned another $10.9 billion throughÃÂ ...
PJ Media
December 25, 2016
What started out after World War II as the idealistic coming together of nations to end war ended up being one of the giant ripoffs of all time.
Shepparton News
December 23, 2016
AWB's contracts with the Iraqi Grain Board under the UN oil-for-food program were inflated by disguised inland transportation fees, a scandal uncovered after the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. The Australian Securities andÃÂ ...
Parkersburg News
December 21, 2016
... and the second highest medal awarded by the Department of Defense, and the highest award issued by the Department of the Treasury for his investigative work in Iraq concerning the United Nations Oil for Food Fraud, Terrorism Funding, and the ...
Farm Weekly
December 21, 2016
FORMER Australian Wheat Board (AWB) chairman Trevor Flugge and AWB trading manager Peter Geary have escaped largely unscathed from charges brought against them by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) in relation to their ...
