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On Friday Claudia Rosett published the latest in her series of groundbreaking stories on the Oil-for-Food debacle, aka UNSCAM. (I missed it then, because the Fox News site, aka Worst Designed News Site in All of Creation, wasn't playing nice with my linux browser.)

The big news in Rosett's piece concerns possible financial connections between Saddam's regime and al Qaeda. Rosett has written on this before, as long ago as last spring, but there's much more detail this time around.

The Belmont Club provides a lengthy analysis.

Tonight, Fox News (the channel, not the website) is presenting an hour-long special on UNSCAM, at 9:00 pm and 12:00 am EDT. If you want to learn more about the single largest financial corruption scandal in history, do tune in.

In other UN news: this week is the annual General Assembly meeting. President Bush will address that august (cough) body on Tuesday. Rest assured that the legacy media, from the Gray Lady to the Beeb, already have boilerplate prepackaged for the occasion, including descriptions of “polite but lukewarm reception,” &tc.