By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 7 --
On Syria
chemical
weapons, UN
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon's
ten page
letter to the
UN Security
Council dated
October 7
raises more
questions than
it answers.
Who
will pay for
the mission?
Who will staff
it?
Ban
says a "trust
fund" will be
established.
Will the Gulf
countries
already
financing
extremist
rebels be
invited to
contribute
to this fund,
as they have
sponsored new
Lounges in
Ban's UN, and
even paying
for people Ban
wanted to
layoff to
remain on,
photocopying
UN document in
a basement as
exclusively
reported
by
Inner City
Press, here?
Also
on finance,
Ban says the
financial
support base
of the mission
will
be in Cyprus
-- ironic
given that
country's
fiscal
meltdown and
IMF
bail-in.
On
Phase Three of
his plan, Ban
seems to open
the door to
personnel or
troops of many
countries to
come in. He is
already bragging
of
Syria's under
UN and OPCW
supervision
using "cutting
torches &
angle
grinders."
But apparently
something more
serious, and
less
Syrian, will
be required
later on. But
who will
deploy there?
And
what will be
the Syrian
government's
role?
Ban's
letter brags
that OPCW will
be under the
UN's "Security
Management
System."
Slim comfort,
given the
attack on the
UN in
Mogadishu --
which, while
whitewashed by
others, we continue
to note was
preceded by
the UN Mine
Action Service
under David
Bax turning
itself
over to US
intelligence
agencies to
collect
genetic and
biometric
information,
making itself
a party
to an armed
conflict as in
the
Congo and
prospectively
Syria.
Ban
offers
assurances of
the UN
system's
seriousness on
health issues.
But his
dismissal of
claims that
the UN brought
cholera to
Haiti,
killing over
8,000 people,
and bogus
report
exonerating Herve
Ladsous'
UN
Peacekeeping,
call this into
question.
Ban,
after turning
in his letter,
is heading off
on another
junket to
Hungary and
Brunei, for a
summit of
ASEAN and the
UN. The OPCW
said it would
hold a press
conference on
October 8,
then without
explanation
moved it to
October 9. The
Free
UN
Coalition for
Access @FUNCA_info has noted
that it should
allow
questions from
journalists
online, as
for example
the IMF does.
But we'll see.
Watch
this site.
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