U.S. senator wants Annan to resign as U.N. leaderGee, senator Coleman; that sounds so reasonable... "If we're to get to the bottom of this, if there's to be any credibility, the person that was at the helm during the course of this thing cannot be the guy that we go asking for help and assistance in getting the people we need to talk to,"
Coleman looking into alleged fraud in oil-for-food program run by U.N.
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Posted: 8:01 PM EST (0101 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. senator leading the investigation into allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Iraq oil-for-food program is urging U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign, saying the "massive scope of this debacle demands nothing less." ....
"If we're to get to the bottom of this, if there's to be any credibility, the person that was at the helm during the course of this thing cannot be the guy that Paul Volcker reports to, cannot be the guy that we go asking for help and assistance in getting the people we need to talk to," Coleman told CNN. "He needs to step back, step down for the credibility of the organization itself." ....
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Halliburton Surges After Bush Re-Election
Wed Nov 3, 2004 05:51 PM ET
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But the company still faces a number of problems over its Iraq contracts.
In the latest move, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official last week called for an investigation into the award the of multi-billion dollar contracts to Halliburton, calling it the worst case of contracting abuse she had seen.
Bunnatine Greenhouse, in a television interview, said, "It was misconduct, and part of the misconduct was blatant." At the center of Greenhouse's complaint is a no-bid contract worth $7 billion awarded last year to KBR to rebuild Iraq's oil industry.
U.S. auditors have also accused KBR of being unable to account for over a third of the items it handled in Kuwait under a work order for the U.S. occupation authority in Iraq.
In addition, the U.S. Army is threatening to withhold payment of 15 percent, or about $600 million, of Halliburton's bills because of a dispute over whether KBR properly documented its bills for feeding and housing troops in Iraq and Kuwait. ....
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Property Halliburton managed in Iraq missing
GLOBEANDMAIL.COM - Saturday, November 27, 2004 - Page A26
Washington -- A third or more of the government property Halliburton Co. was paid to manage for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq could not be located by auditors, investigative reports to Congress show.
Auditors could not locate hundreds of CPA items worth millions of dollars in Iraq and Kuwait this summer and fall, the report said.
Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company is the focus of both a criminal investigation into alleged fuel-price gouging and an FBI inquiry into possible favouritism from the administration. AP
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I suppose we could ask:
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota,
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If he plans to ask Bush to step down - or - if he (Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota) is a hypocrite.
