Kojo's UNSCAM Problem

This isn't the kind of news that Kofi wants to hear on the same day that Iraqis went to the polls with their first free elections. In fact, it's not the kind of news that Kofi wants to hear right before the US State of the State Address or any other day for that matter.

Kojo's got some real big problems, and he ought to start inquiring about whether Ramsey Clark is available to represent him in a criminal prosecution.

THE son of the United Nations secretary-general has admitted he was involved in negotiations to sell millions of barrels of Iraqi oil under the auspices of Saddam Hussein.

Kojo Annan has told a close friend he became involved in negotiations to sell 2m barrels of Iraqi oil to a Moroccan company in 2001. He is understood to be co-operating with UN investigators probing the discredited oil for food programme.

The alleged admission will increase pressure on Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, who is already facing calls for his resignation over the management of the humanitarian programme.

And yet, there are those who think that the UN was doing the right thing by Iraqis not named Saddam?

Technorati: UNSCAM, Oil for Food, and Kofi Annan