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...over 2.2 million more votes than his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. That evening Yushchenko was to address his supporters on "the Maidan," or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's Independence Square: the symbol of the civil disobedience campaign that erupted in November after Yanukovych "won" a vote marred by massive fraud and led to the Dec. 26 rerun. Yushchenko intended to call on the hundreds still camping on the Maidan to fold up their tents, and invite them back to the square on New Year's Eve to celebrate the orange revolution's victory. But as he was about to leave...
Well it turns out that an active imagination really isn’t necessary—all of these things actually happened under the auspices of the vaunted United Nations (UN) oil for food program in Iraq. What is clearly the single biggest case of humanitarian fraud in history, and what might be the largest financial fraud of any kind in modern times, has gone rather unnoted in the American media...
...office in the face of a small but determined band of congressional foes. After holding a single public hearing, Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican chairing one of the congressional inquiries, wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Kofi Annan should resign, because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch." Administration officials distanced themselves from Coleman's remarks, but the White House hardly offered him a vote of confidence. When asked whether Annan should take the fall for the scandal, President Bush said only, "I look forward to a good, honest...
...case against Kofi centers on the murk of fraud and mismanagement that occurred during the seven years of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program. In 1996 the Security Council agreed to let Saddam's regime sell oil and use the revenues to buy food and medicine to alleviate the suffering caused by economic sanctions. The U.N. was in charge of overseeing both sides of the trade, but Saddam managed to skim off more than $20 billion from the $64 billion program to prop up his rule. Records found in Iraq allege that government officials and others, notably in France...
VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, opposing a decision by the Ukrainian Supreme Court to hold a new runoff election between the two candidates for Ukraine's President, after allegations of fraud in the first balloting...