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U.S. Responses to Alleged Abuse of Oil-for-Food Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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1 The report, whose full title is Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD, is available at <http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html>. On Duelfer, see Pincus, Walter, Inspector Is Known as Tough, Thorough, Wash. Post, Oct. 7, 2004, at A35 Google Scholar.

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