Charles A. Duelfer

January 14, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

How ISIS Makes Money: Oil Sales

The Islamic State, popularly known as ISIS, is in many ways an innovative economic actor. But its method of bringing oil to market has been anything but cutting-edge. ISIS took advantage of a bla...

April 5, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Iran’s Negotiating Triumph Over Obama and America

President Obama believes that the nuclear “framework” concluded Friday in Switzerland is a historic achievement. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, says he believes...

February 12, 2009 | |

Commerce Department Waives Syria Sanctions

Is an olive branch to Damascus really in U.S. interests?

July 28, 2006 | FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Proving Saddam’s WMDs

Despite the antiwar Left's favorite mantra about how Bush lied regarding WMDs in Iraq, the evidence now proves there were WMDs after all. According to recent announcement made by Se...

April 3, 2006 | |

How Corrupt is the United Nations?

Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We still do not...

October 20, 2005 | FOXNews.com |

U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda

Co-authored by: George Russell. The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department (search) now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinist...

October 12, 2005 | |

Frenchmen Fried?

France discovers the Oil-for-Food scandal.

July 27, 2005 | Claudia Rosett FOXNews.com |

U.N. Mystery Man: Who Is Jean-Bernard Merimee and What’s His Oil-for-Food Tie?

As investigations proliferate into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, one of the more intriguing mysteries involves a former French diplomat with a direct link to the U.N.’s executive...

May 3, 2005 | Claudia Rosett New York Sun |

Congress Probes Routing of Funds To Suspect Firms

Investigators looking into the U.N. oil-for-food program, poring over documents provided to Congress here, are discovering that vast sums intended for humanitarian purposes in Iraq were rerouted...

February 13, 2005 | Claudia Rosett New Republic |

Kofi Annan’s Silence

On February 3, the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, issued its first interim report. Volcker's most lurid...

February 1, 2005 | New York Sun |

Volcker’s Report Raises Questions of U.N.’s Role

The interim report on the United Nations' scandal-wracked oil-for-food program is due to be released tomorrow, according to the U.N.-authorized Independent Inquiry Committee, led by a former...

January 11, 2005 | Wall Street Journal |

Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion?

Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Foo...

October 28, 2004 | Clifford D. May FrontPageMagazine |

Symposium: Iraq: Fight or Flight?

Co-authored by: Jamie Glaznov, Greg Bates, David Lindorff and Jed Babbin. Where are we headed in Iraq? Is it crucial to stay and fight for victory, or, as some liberal-left crit...

October 20, 2004 | Clifford D. May

No Diversion: The Case Against the War in Iraq Has Weakened

You can argue that the conflict in Iraq is a distraction from the "War on Terrorism".  But that argument is weaker than it was a few days ago -- before Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of t...

October 19, 2004 | Claudia Rosett Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal) |

La République des Bananes

Kofi Annan Tries to Explain Away France and Russia's Oil for Food Wrongdoing

October 13, 2004 | FoxNews.com |

Saddam, Syria Colluded Under U.N. Watch

For dirty deals done with Saddam Hussein, France and Russia may take the cake — but that's just the beginning. Packed into the Iraq Survey Group report from CIA chief weapons...

October 7, 2004 |

Coalition of the Bribed

Authored by Andrew Apostolou Wednesday's report by Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector, is devastating not for the U.S.-led Coalition that liberated Iraq, but...

October 7, 2004 | |

The U.N.’s Greatest Failure; Saddam’s Iraq Evidently Passed Turtle Bay’s Global Test

Authored by Andrew Apostolou Wednesday's report by Charles Duelfer demonstrated not only that United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq were a bust, but also the fundament...

October 6, 2004 | |

Saddam’s Sugar Daddy

CIA chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer may not have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but he sure found information enough to blow the lid off the simmering scandal of the United Na...

October 6, 2004 | American Values Newsletter

Weapons Report

The nightly network news gave major attention yesterday to a new report by chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer that concludes Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Of course, the...