The US and Britain have rejected claims by UN chief Kofi Annan that they turned a blind eye to oil smuggling by Saddam Hussein's regime.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the charges were "inaccurate", while Washington was also dismissive. The US spokesman at the UN, Richard Grenell, said Washington did not know of any oil smuggling at the time. Annan who has been under pressure himself because of his son's implied involvement in the "Oil for Food" controversy made the claims on Thursday saying that Britain and the US knew about shipments of Iraqi oil to Jordan and Turkey in spite of UN sanctions.
(Deutsche Welle)
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