Annan claims U.S., Britain could have stopped illegal oil-for-food program

Friday, April 15, 2005

UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that the United States and Britain are partly to blame for Saddam Hussein's regime making billions of dollars in illicit money from smuggling oil.

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