Frederick Forsyth, John Le Carre and Robert Ludlum All Rolled Into One

Now, buried in some of the United Nation's own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaida link - clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort.

On Fox News website today here.

Appearances can be deceiving but we may be looking at the smoking gun/connection between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein as promoted by the Bush administration or maybe the two just used the same teller machine.

The UN, that bungled their duty under a lid of unaudited secrecy, was entitled to a 2.2% commission for expenses associate with this program. On a $100+ billion program, this amounts to over $2 billion. This seems like a lot of money to supervise the process and they must have an awful lot of information to show for it.

An NRO story published April 18th gives further credence to the story but also is prescient in what is highlighted in bold below:

If there is a silver lining to all this, it is that those contract lists and bank records could be a treasure trove of information - an insider tour of what Saddam's regime knew about the dark side of global finance. There are plenty of signs that the secret U.N. lists became, in effect, Saddam's little black book (papered over with a blue U.N. label). Though perhaps "little" is not the correct word. The labyrinth was vast. The wisest move by the U.N., the U.S., or any other authority with full access to these records, would be to make them fully public - thus recruiting help from observers worldwide, not least the media, in digging through the hazardous waste left by Oil-for-Food.

Given the success of the pajama brigade on the Rathergate story, this may be a plan in the making!