Iraqi oil smuggling - US did nothing

Well, that's the assertion of The Financial Times.

In February 2003, when US media first published reports of this smuggling effort, then attributed exclusively to the Iraqis, the US mission to the UN condemned it as “immoral”.

However, FT/Il Sole have evidence that US and UK missions to the UN were informed of the smuggling while it was happening and that they reported it to their respective governments, to no avail.

The article goes on to detail oil smuggling activites from Jan - Mar 2003.

"To no avail"? The US invaded Iraq in March 2003.

The UN took no action because they were being bribed, the US took action because they weren't. Something the FT wants you to overlook
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