The Iraqi official heading the investigation into alleged corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program was killed in a bomb attack earlier this week, officials familiar with the probe said on Saturday. Ihsan Karim, head of the Board of Supreme Audit, died in hospital after a bomb placed under one of the cars in his convoy exploded on Thursday, the officials said. Iraq’s former U.S. Governor Paul Bremer gave the board independence from the executive branch of government and appointed Karim as its head in April. ...Zaab Sethna, a spokesman for Chalabi, said the audit board was poorly equipped to handle the investigation. "The assassination of Mr Karim is very worrying. Bremer appointed the audit board and left them on their own," Sethna told Reuters. "The investigation was the highest profile probe the board was handling. It is impossible to speculate who killed Mr Karim, but the oil-for-food corruption involved very powerful people inside and outside Iraq," he added.
Impossible to speculate who killed Karim?? He, he...perhaps, the hands of Kofi Cup Annan, Jacko Chiraco, irmgard Shroeder, and "old blue eyes" Putin should be checked a.s.a.p. for traces of Semtex...just a thought... |