[Chappy]

[url:220cd]http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051027/ca_pr_on_wo/un_oil_for_food_29[/url:220cd]

[quote:220cd]The 623-page document was a scathing indictment that exposed the global scope of a scam that allegedly involved such name-brand companies as DaimlerChrysler and Siemens AG, as well as a former French UN ambassador, a firebrand British politician and the president of Italy's Lombardi region.

The report meticulously detailed how the $64 billion program became a cash cow for Saddam and more than half the companies participating in oil-for-food. It blamed shoddy UN management and the world's most powerful countries for allowing it to go on for years.[/quote:220cd]