26.6.06

Saddam e a corrupção na ONU

LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.

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The trial could reveal whether the scandal-plagued $64 billion humanitarian programme, which allowed Iraq to sell limited amounts of oil to finance the import of humanitarian supplies while under UN sanctions, was corrupt from the very start.