Kofi's "Shocked"

After wondering "where (the) people are and what has happened to them," Kofi yet again struggles with a perplexing issue:

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was "shocked" by an independent enquiry that found unethical behaviour by the official who ran the oil-for-food programme in Iraq, his chief of staff said.

The enquiry said the official, Benon Sevan, solicited allocations of Iraqi oil from the Baghdad regime of Saddam Hussein and had got questionable cash payments but stopped short of saying he had taken bribes.

Mark Malloch Brown, Annan's chief of staff, said disciplinary proceedings had been started against Sevan, although it was unclear what measures could be taken because Sevan has already resigned from the United Nations.

"The secretary general is shocked by what the report has to say about Mr Sevan, terribly dismayed that a colleague of so many years' standing is accused of breaching the UN code of conduct and staff rules in the way he did," Malloch Brown told reporters.

"He very much doubts there can be any extenuating circumstances to explain the behaviour which appears proven in the report," Malloch Brown said.

Kofi, where do you think your son got the money for his new Beemers? His paper route? Call me dubious as subscriptions to the NY Times seem to be rapidly decreasing.

Volcker told reporters that the findings about Sevan were the "most disturbing" part of the highly technical initial report but cautioned that his investigation was still continuing.

"This is an interim report. It is not the whole story by a long shot," he said at a press conference in New York.

Yep, not by a long shot. Something tells me there will be a purple finger pointed in Kofi's direction under the new Iraqi government, which will be met with further "shock" and "dismay."