{"id":1918,"date":"2004-04-27T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T21:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/04\/latest-on-unscam\/"},"modified":"2004-04-27T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T21:58:39","slug":"latest-on-unscam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/27\/latest-on-unscam\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest on UNSCAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom <a title=\"The Australian: James Morrow: UN apologists remain silent on oil scandal [April 28, 2004]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,9407989%255E7583,00.html\">The Australian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Documents found in Iraq&#8217;s old ministry of oil reveal that hundreds of prominent individuals received vouchers to buy Iraqi oil at cut-rate prices and sell it on the open market &#8212; at tremendous, often seven-figure, profits. <\/p>\n<p>Those named include not just Sevan but a vast array of Russian politicians, close friends of French President Jacques Chirac (including France&#8217;s former minister of the interior), British Labour MP George Galloway, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter and, closer to home, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri. <\/p>\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s a who&#8217;s who list of high-profile anti-war and anti-sanctions voices, all revealed to be shills for Saddam. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>All we are saying is Give Peace a Chance (to line my pockets!)<\/i>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Australian: Documents found in Iraq&#8217;s old ministry of oil reveal that hundreds of prominent individuals received vouchers to buy Iraqi oil at cut-rate prices and sell it on the open market &#8212; at tremendous, often seven-figure, profits. Those named include not just Sevan but a vast array of Russian politicians, close friends of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/27\/latest-on-unscam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest on UNSCAM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-uW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}