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Newly released U.N. audits of the oil-for-food program leave unanswered que stanley quencher stions about whether Saddam Hussein used the program to illegally raise billions of dollars, congressional leaders said Monday.Lawmakers had repeatedly demanded that the United Nations turn over more than 50 internal audits on the program, suspecting they would provide evidence that the former Iraqi president manipulated the humanitarian program with the help of corrupt or inept U.N. overseers.But the audits released Sunday night didn t tackle the corruption issues stanley cup quencher at the heart of the matter. While finding repeated examples of overpayments to contractors and the mismanagement of purchases, the audits do not address the broader issues of oversight by U.N. headquarters and of the program s contracting and banking procedures. These audits do not answer even a fraction of the questions we have been asking or will be continuing to ask as our investigation moves ahead, said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee s investigations subcommittee, one of several panels looking at the program.Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., the chairman of the House Government Reform Committee s national security subcommittee, said the audits raise the question, How was the U.N. internal watchdog effectively neutered The United Nations ran the oil-for-food program from 1996-2003 while Iraq was under sanctions. It allowed Saddam to export oil under U.N. oversigh stanley cup t and use the proceeds
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel said it withdrew the last of its ground forces from Gaza on Tuesday as it and Hamas began a temporary cease-fire. The calm sets the stage for talks in Egypt on a broader deal for a long-term truce and the rebuilding of the battered, blockaded coastal territory.Both sides halted cross-border attacks as the three-day truce took effect at 8 a.m. 0500 GMT Tuesday. The shelling stopped and in Gaza City, where streets had been deserted during the nearly monthlong war, traffic picked up and shops started opening.If the calm holds, it would be the longest lull in almost a month of fighting that has kille asics gel d nearly 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis.But in case the peace doesn t hold, combat troops remained perched on the border, rea mizuno handballschuh dy to strike should Hamas choose to pull the trigger again, reported CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata. And as CBS News State Dept. correspondent Margaret Brennan reports, the conflict has strained U.S.-Israel relations. Gaza conflict str af1 aining U.S.-Israel relations 01:46 In coming days, Egyptian mediators plan to shuttle between Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Cairo to try to work out new arrangements for Gaza. As details of the Palestinian demands emerged, there were some signs that Hamas is willing to give Palestinian Presiden Zrih Leaky Plumbing Linked To SARS Spread
In the first major counterattack since Moscow launched its Chechen offensive, militants on stormed and claimed to retake most of an eastern town, even as Ru stanley kubek ssian forces kept up a relentless assault on the capital of the breakaway republic. Grozny Mayor Lecha Dudayev said that according to survivors accounts, m stanley flask ore than 260 people died in the Russian bombardment on the capital that began Thursday, but also indicated that the final death toll was likely to be at least twice that number, the Interfax news agency reported. The estimate could not be independently confirmed, and an accurate de stanley cup ath toll is unlikely until after the shelling stops. The Russian military denied that civilians had been killed, saying that the airstrikes had targeted rebel strongholds, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Defense Ministry said its forces had unleashed air and artillery strikes against militants in 35 settlements on Saturday. The rebels counterattack began overnight, when fighters under field commander Salman Raduyev showered Grad rockets on Novogroznensky, some 25 miles east of Grozny, and then stormed the small town. By around midday Saturday, all but the eastern outskirts of Novogroznensky were under control of Chechen fighters, Raduyev said. We met with harsh resistance by the Russians, but with the help of Allah, who is leading us to victory, we have taken this town, Raduyev told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. There was heavy fighting through
BEIRUT -- Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview aired Wednes nike dunk low day that his priority is defeating terrorism in Syria and urged all political and armed factions in the country to unite in the fight against terrorist groups.In an interview with Russian media, Assad also said there can be no political solution for his country s crisis until terrorism is defeated. He singled out the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , which has captured about a third of Syrian territory along with large swaths of land in neighboring Iraq, as well as al Qaeda s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, and some af1 others, without specifying.The government in Damascus has long labelled all armed groups yeezy fighting Assad s forces as terrorists. Assad made no reference to the extreme violence his forces have used on civilian areas during the country s civil war, now in its fifth year, repeating only that some mistakes have been made. How will the U.S. react to Russian forces in Syria 04:09 Moscow has been a staunch supporter of Assad throughout the crisis. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said it is impossible to defeat ISIS without cooperating with Damascus. He has urged other nations to follow Russia s example and offer military support to Assad s government.In recent days, Moscow has sent about a half-dozen b Zhum Paul McCartney says Queen Elizabeth looked like a film star to pre-teen boys in Liverpool
Newly released U.N. audits of the oil-for-food program leave unanswered que stanley quencher stions about whether Saddam Hussein used the program to illegally raise billions of dollars, congressional leaders said Monday.Lawmakers had repeatedly demanded that the United Nations turn over more than 50 internal audits on the program, suspecting they would provide evidence that the former Iraqi president manipulated the humanitarian program with the help of corrupt or inept U.N. overseers.But the audits released Sunday night didn t tackle the corruption issues stanley cup quencher at the heart of the matter. While finding repeated examples of overpayments to contractors and the mismanagement of purchases, the audits do not address the broader issues of oversight by U.N. headquarters and of the program s contracting and banking procedures. These audits do not answer even a fraction of the questions we have been asking or will be continuing to ask as our investigation moves ahead, said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee s investigations subcommittee, one of several panels looking at the program.Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., the chairman of the House Government Reform Committee s national security subcommittee, said the audits raise the question, How was the U.N. internal watchdog effectively neutered The United Nations ran the oil-for-food program from 1996-2003 while Iraq was under sanctions. It allowed Saddam to export oil under U.N. oversigh stanley cup t and use the proceeds
Ohfy White House Revamps Iraq Mission
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel said it withdrew the last of its ground forces from Gaza on Tuesday as it and Hamas began a temporary cease-fire. The calm sets the stage for talks in Egypt on a broader deal for a long-term truce and the rebuilding of the battered, blockaded coastal territory.Both sides halted cross-border attacks as the three-day truce took effect at 8 a.m. 0500 GMT Tuesday. The shelling stopped and in Gaza City, where streets had been deserted during the nearly monthlong war, traffic picked up and shops started opening.If the calm holds, it would be the longest lull in almost a month of fighting that has kille asics gel d nearly 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis.But in case the peace doesn t hold, combat troops remained perched on the border, rea mizuno handballschuh dy to strike should Hamas choose to pull the trigger again, reported CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata. And as CBS News State Dept. correspondent Margaret Brennan reports, the conflict has strained U.S.-Israel relations. Gaza conflict str af1 aining U.S.-Israel relations 01:46 In coming days, Egyptian mediators plan to shuttle between Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Cairo to try to work out new arrangements for Gaza. As details of the Palestinian demands emerged, there were some signs that Hamas is willing to give Palestinian Presiden Zrih Leaky Plumbing Linked To SARS Spread
In the first major counterattack since Moscow launched its Chechen offensive, militants on stormed and claimed to retake most of an eastern town, even as Ru stanley kubek ssian forces kept up a relentless assault on the capital of the breakaway republic. Grozny Mayor Lecha Dudayev said that according to survivors accounts, m stanley flask ore than 260 people died in the Russian bombardment on the capital that began Thursday, but also indicated that the final death toll was likely to be at least twice that number, the Interfax news agency reported. The estimate could not be independently confirmed, and an accurate de stanley cup ath toll is unlikely until after the shelling stops. The Russian military denied that civilians had been killed, saying that the airstrikes had targeted rebel strongholds, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Defense Ministry said its forces had unleashed air and artillery strikes against militants in 35 settlements on Saturday. The rebels counterattack began overnight, when fighters under field commander Salman Raduyev showered Grad rockets on Novogroznensky, some 25 miles east of Grozny, and then stormed the small town. By around midday Saturday, all but the eastern outskirts of Novogroznensky were under control of Chechen fighters, Raduyev said. We met with harsh resistance by the Russians, but with the help of Allah, who is leading us to victory, we have taken this town, Raduyev told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. There was heavy fighting through
