Boko
Haram Is Put
on UN
Sanctions
List,
Djinnit's
Asked of US
Force in
Chad
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, May
22 -- On
#BringBackOurGirls,
it took the UN
a while to
get involved
but on May 22
Boko Haram was
added to the
UN's Al Qaeda
sanctions list
(video
here) and
envoy to
Nigeria Said
Djinnit held a
press
conference.
Inner
City Press
asked Djinnit
about the US
Obama
administration
deploying
80 airmen and
reportedly a
Predator drone
to Chad: is
the UN even
trying to play
a coordinating
role?
Djinnit
said
the UN is
trying, but it
is up to
Nigeria. (One
might ask,
then
why is the US
deploying to
Chad?) He
spoke about
providing
psychological
services
afterward.
Later
in the
afternoon the
Al Qaeda
sanctions
committee met
in Conference
Room 7 of the
UN's North
Lawn building.
Inner City
Press went; a
representative
of Nigeria
said no one
had “broken
silence” on
its
request to put
Boko Haram on
the list. But
committee
chair Gary
Quinlan, on
his way in,
said he would
speak after
the meeting.
When
this happened,
Inner City
Press video
here,
Quinlan
confirmed the
listing, cited
an asset
freeze, and
said it is a
beginning.
Only the
day before the
US State
Department
told Congress
that Boko
Haram has
no bank
account.
Quinlan to his
credit took
questions, but
three from
the same
media, a set-up.
At
the Djinnit
press
conference
there was
similar
monopolization:
the
first question
was given to
the president
of UNCA,
now known as
theUN's
Censorship
Alliance,
who proceeded
to ask three
questions.
This
made it so
others
couldn't even
ask one
question. And
all to what
end? Watch
this site.
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