France - Oil for Food and Dead Israeli Children

The hearings continue in Washington to follow the trails of the corrupt UN program.

This tidbit was reported by the NY Post.

Committee investigators told The Post they have also uncovered major irregularities in the management of oil-for-food funds by the French bank BNP Paribas, which operated the U.N. escrow account in New York for the massive aid program.

Saddam began offering $25,000 payments to the families of Palestinian bombers in the late 1990s to win support in the Arab world.

The payments were cited by President Bush as an example of Saddam's involvement with terrorism in his case to go to war with Iraq.

Congressional investigators said they have uncovered evidence that scores of aid suppliers were instructed to place fees of 10 percent of the value of their U.N. contracts into accounts controlled by the Central Bank of Iraq in the Rafidain Bank in Amman, Jordan.

The Jordanian government, which was buying oil in a side deal with Saddam, also paid money from a $3-a-barrel "surcharge" imposed by Iraq into the same accounts.

Sabah Yassen, Iraq's ambassador to Jordan, then withdrew the money from those accounts and distributed it directly to the families of dead Palestinian terrorists, committee staffers said.

In another developement, the UN has agreed to release documents to the House Committee. But, they still refuse to allow the committee to interview UN officials.