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Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors
By JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 18th, 2008 | Tags: Accountability, Bailout, Iraq, Iraq War, Nuri al-Maliki, Pentagon Corruption, United Nations, Waste | Category: Accountability, Bailout, Iraq, Iraq War, Nuri al-Maliki, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, United Nations, Waste | Leave a comment

Q&A: History of Sudan’s Darfur conflict

The United Nations Security Council has approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to replace the 7,000 African Union (AU) observer mission struggling to protect civilians in Sudan’s western province of Darfur.
The exact make-up and deployment date for this beefed up force is still to be determined.
In the meantime, [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 13th, 2008 | Tags: Africa, catastrophe, Darfur, humanitarian, Janjaweed, refugees, Sudan, United Nations | Category: Africa, Darfur, Sudan, United Nations, genocide, rebels, refugees | Leave a comment

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — China gave the International Atomic Energy Agency intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program despite Beijing’s opposition to harsh U.N. Security Council sanctions on Tehran, according to diplomats familiar with the matter.
A Chinese decision to provide information for a probe into Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program could be a sign of growing international [...]

Posted by bosskitty April 2nd, 2008 | Category: China, IAEA, Iran, Israel, Nuclear, UN, United Nations, uranium | Comments (3)

UNICEF:
– An estimated 2 million children in Iraq continue to face threats including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education.
- Many of the 220,000 displaced children of primary school age had their education interrupted.
- An estimated 760,000 children (17 per cent) did not go to primary schools in 2006.
- An average 25,000 [...]

Posted by bosskitty January 5th, 2008 | Category: Children, Christians, Collateral, European Union, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Human Traffiking, Iraqi Children, Islam, Legacy, Middle East, Time Bomb, US State Department, United Nations, adoption, displaced persons, innocents, negligence, orphans, refugees, slavery, survivors, victims | Comments (13)

Oscar Wyatt Jr., 83, founder and former chairman of Coastal Corp. enters Manhattan federal court in the second week of his trial in this October file photo. LOUIS LANZANO: AP
Texas Oilman Handed Year Prison Term
NEW YORK (AP) — Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. was sentenced to a year in prison Tuesday for his [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 27th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Coastal Corp, Corporate Corruption, Crooks, Houston, Hypocracy, Iraq, Law, Oil, Oscar Wyatt Jr, Texas Crooks, United Nations, betrayal, collaborators, consequences, contradictions, cover up, crimes, lies, oil-for-food, profiteers | Comments (2)