Nearly all the allegations are based on an unauthenticated list of some 270 individuals and organisations said to have received oil "vouchers" from Mr Hussein, which they could then sell on for a hefty commission.
Since an unauthenticated picture is not worth nearly as much, three owners got their lawyers to send threatening letters.Spooked, the foundation is beefing up its liability insurance.
His scholars chucked out all unauthenticated texts and put together the genuine version, albeit that the suras – or chapters – were arranged by length rather than chronologically.
It has a fixed address (3 Stanton Street), a phone number (646-413-5390), and regularly scheduled shows, which range from intriguing (the Swedish duo International Festival performs every Saturday at 3) to irksome (the gadfly Conceptualist Rainer Ganahl exhibits unauthenticated artworks he owns by Franz West and Alighiero et Boetti).
If the girl in the painting really is Jane Austen then the portrait is the only professionally painted likeness of her — and it joins a sketch by Austen's sister and, possibly, an unauthenticated drawing discovered last year by the Austen biographer Paula Byrne, among the only known portraits of the author created during her lifetime.
Last year (among other shows) it offered a project about war and memory by the conceptual artist Dario Robleto and "Orphan Paintings," a cache of unauthenticated canvases that might or might not be by Russian Constructivists.
"Java 7 Update 10 and earlier contain an unspecified vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system," the agency said in an alert issued last week.
Oracle, which develops Java software, was forced to fix the security hole Sunday after the department issued this rare alert late Thursday: "Java 7 Update 10 and earlier contain an unspecified vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
The letter was provided by Dr. Khan in 2007 to Simon Henderson, a scholar who has written extensively about the Pakistani scientist, who passed it on some time ago, unauthenticated, to The Washington Post, which published it on Thursday.
Emad al-Asfar, the director general of programming, said the station did not want "to interfere in the internal affairs of governments" and was trying to avoid "inciting the public through live coverage" and "unauthenticated stories".
Unauthenticated, "Red, Black and Silver" would be listed as "attributed to Pollock" and carry an estimate of no more than $50,000, said Patricia G. Hambrecht, chief business development officer at Phillips auction house, where the painting is consigned.
