Claudia Rosett, in the Wall Street Journal, writes today that funds from the crooked, U.N.-run Oil-for-Food Program for Iraq made their way into some very questionable, crooked places with clear links to international corruption and, yes, terrorism (emphasis added):

In Oil-for-Food, "Every contract tells a story," says John Fawcett, a financial investigator with the New York law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, which has sued the financial sponsors of Sept. 11 on behalf of the victims and their families.

In an interview, Mr. Fawcett and his colleague, Christine Negroni, run down the lists of Oil-for-Food authorized oil buyers and relief suppliers, pointing out likely terrorist connections. One authorized oil buyer, they note, was a remnant of the defunct global criminal bank, BCCI. Another was close to the Taliban while Osama bin Laden was on the rise in Afghanistan; a third was linked to a bank in the Bahamas involved in al Qaeda's financial network; a fourth had a close connection to one of Saddam's would-be nuclear-bomb makers.

If this scandal was lacking a tangible, clear connection to the attacks upon the U.S., it may have one now. This was a program overseen by the highest levels of the United Nations' leadership, and its funds were commingled with a Taliban sympathizer, The Bank of Bin Laden and an Iraqi nuke maker?

If this true, it could lay the foundation for a full-blown U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations - or at least a serious discussion about it.