UNITED
NATIONS, May
16 -- More
than three
hours after a
Press request,
and
after Herve
Ladsous'
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations
spoon-fed
half answers
about another
kidnapping of
peacekeepers
under his
watch
to friendly
scribes, this
written
response was
sent:
Subject:
Re: Request
for all
information
DPKO has
providing
about new
detention of
UN
peacekeepers
in the Golan,
etc
Date:
Thu, May 16,
2013 at 11:14
PM
From:
Josephine
Guerrero [at]
un.org
To: Matthew
Russell Lee
[at]
InnerCityPress.com
Cc's
[many,
including]:
Kieran Dwyer
[at] un.org,
Andre-Michel
Essoungou
[at] un.org,
FUNCA
Matthew,
On
the most
recent
detention of
UN
peacekeepers
in the Golan:
In
the early
morning on 15
May, a group
of unknown
armed men
broke into
UN Observation
Post 52, in
the area of
separation.
Three Observer
Group Golan
unarmed
military
observers were
taken and held
for
approximately
five hours and
were released
unharmed. They
returned
safely to UN
Observation
Post 52 where
they were met
by the UNDOF
Head of
Mission.
It's
appreciated,
and Inner City
Press
immediately
publishes it
in full - but
it doesn't
answer Inner
City Press'
question at
the
May 16 noon
briefing,
about "the
highest levels
of DPKO"
being aware of
the role of
Qatari
intelligence
and the Syrian
opposition
"ambassador"
in Doha in the
previous
kidnapping
of Filipino UN
peacekeepers.
Nor
does it answer
when Inner
City Press
directly
requested,
more than
three hours
earlier, "for
an explanation
of how this
information
was
disseminated
on such a
limited basis,
including in
light of
DPKO
spokesperson
Dwyer's
statements at
UN World Press
Freedom Day
event."
Video here.
Nevertheless,
an
anonymous
social media
account
associated
with the UN
Correspondents
Association
quickly jumped
in, defending
Ladsous from
the verdict of
a Troop
Contributing
Country, that
Ladsous is "a
loser."
Perhaps
Reuters or
UNCA should
contributed
troops: they
are certainly
willing to be
servile. Watch
this site.
, 
