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===US Senate investigations=== [[United States Senate|US Senator]] [[Norm Coleman]] called for [[Kofi Annan]] to resign over the scandal and held [[Oil-for-Food Program Hearings|a number of hearings]] on the matter. The most spectacular of these hearings occurred after the subcommittee released a report that accused (then) British [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) [[George Galloway]], Russian politician [[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]], and former French Interior Minister [[Charles Pasqua]] of receiving oil allocations from Iraq in return for being political allies of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime. Galloway, in an unusual appearance of a British MP before a US Senate subcommittee, responded angrily to the allegations against him in a [[George Galloway#Senate hearing (17 May 2005)|confrontational public hearing]] which drew much media attention in both America and Britain.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4557369.stm |title=Media react to blistering hearing |work=BBC News |date=17 May 2005 |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref> Galloway denied the allegations. It is estimated that as much as $10 billion to $21.3 billion went unaccounted for and/or was directed to Saddam Hussein and his government in the form of kickbacks and oil smuggling. Record keeping of illegal behaviour is hard to come by and rare at best. To date, only 1 of 54 internal UN audits of the Oil-for-Food Programme has been made public. The UN has refused all requests for its audits.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} [[Warren Hoge]] alleged that the American government was aware of the scandal and chose to not prevent the smuggling because their allies Turkey and Jordan benefited from the majority of the smuggled oil. US Senator [[Carl Levin]] (D-[[Michigan]]) is quoted in an interview for the ''New York Times'' as saying, "There is no question that the bulk of the illicit oil revenues came from the open sale of Iraqi oil to Jordan and to Turkey, and that that was a way of going around the Oil-for-Food Programme [and that] we were fully aware of the bypass and looked the other way."<ref>{{cite web|last=Hoge |first=Warren |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050424/news_1n24annan.html |title=U.S. pegged for leaky Iraq oil sanctions |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=24 April 2005 |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref>
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