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Hiding Hamas’ Weapons at the UN – An Entity Unto Itself, UN Investigations Never Seem to ome Up With The Facts & Truth
Judi McLeod / Canada Free Press
Things that shouldn’t be there have a way of turning up at the omnipresent installations of the world’s largest bureaucracy known as the United Nations.
Back in the days when Kofi Annan was UN Secretary General, it was black boxes from crashed planes unearthed from filing cabinets at UN Manhattan headquarters.
“First came the cockpit voice recorder discovered by reporters collecting cobwebs in a filing cabinet at UN Manhattan headquarters. The black box was discovered in March 2004 at the UN’s Air Safety Unit, where it had apparently languished for 10 long years after its arrival by diplomatic pouch from the UN Mission in Rwanda.” (Canada Free Press, May 10, 2005)
“Yesterday, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered approximately 20 rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza strip.” (Times of Israel, July 17, 2014)
“UNRWA strongly condemns the group or groups responsible for placing the weapons in one of its installations,” the agency said in a statement.
This from the officials of the same agency, which has a reputation in Jerusalem of being “exceedingly critical of Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians,” as pointed out by Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman.
“The officials have been summoned to the Foreign Ministry. They have apologized to Israel for the incident.”
With the agency demanding “full respect for the sanctity of its premises in Gaza, UNRWA has launched a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident.
“When reporters demanded to know why the cockpit recorder was still in a filing cabinet at UN Manhattan headquarters a full decade after a plane crash, Annan spokesman Fred Eckhard jokingly pretended to look under his desk to prove there were not other black boxes in hiding. (CFP)
“The discovery of the box by enterprising reporters was a major embarrassment for the world’s largest bureaucracy. Even Annan described it as a “first-class foul-up”.
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