Dear all,

Here's a nice little conspiracy for you, concerning the allegations of corruption in the oil for food program.

Now it's a little complicated so bear with me.

"The major part of the transactions where graft, misuse [and] kickbacks were involved by-passed United Nations officials," he told the BBC Today programme.

He said these transactions were extremely complex, and negotiated between the Iraqi government and suppliers' (Hans von Sponeck)

The essence of it is that money was siphoned off into Saddams coffers and those of Western suppliers where he used it to bribe Westeners and buy off support.

And we're not talking peanuts here, some $10billion went walkies.

Who did Saddam buy off and bribe in the West?

France possibly? Germany?

But the conspiracy takes an even better twist.

The US led adminstration, headed up by Bremer has decided to step in and halt the original investigation by the reputable firm KPMG.

The newly appointed Ernst & Young's inquiry will duplicate work begun over three months ago.

Why? Why add an extra three months worth of work to something that needs to be rooted out now, as quickly as possible?

According to Republican Congressmen Christopher Shays,

Who would want to alter the documents or destroy them and why?

What exactly is going on?

Who's covering up what here?

Is there a Catch-22-ish irony here that might involve a large US corporation, say Haliburton in the oil for food progam? Or the French as mentioned earlier? What if there are members on the Interim Governing Council involved in taking kickbacks?

And those supply governments, how many of them perhaps have links to high ranking Western government officials?

Well?

What's going on here?

yechydda,