UNITED
NATIONS, April
1 -- Just as
the UN starts
up a probe of
chemical
weapons in
Syria, a blast
from the past
search for
weapons of
mass
destruction in
Iraq Judith
Miller spoke
at the UN on
Monday, in an
event only
partial
disclosed in
the day's UN
Journal. Photo
of sign on
door, here.
The
Journal entry
said only
Women’s
International
Forum: Meeting
on “Arab
Spring or
Islamist
Winter? A
journalist’s
perspective of
the Arab
Spring now”
(sponsored by
the Executive
Office of the
Secretary-General)
Monday, 1
April 2013
From 13:15 to
14:30, in
Conference
Room 6 (NLB).
[Delegates
and
Secretariat
staff are
invited to
attend. Please
click here for
further
information.]
The
printed
Journal didn't
say who the
guest was. But
online, click
took
one to the
home page http://womensinternationalforum.org/,
on which
was Judith
Miller's
portrait, and
a bio
beginning,
“Judith Miller
is an author
and a Pulitzer
Prize-winning
investigative
reporter
formerly with
The New York
Times.”
You
don't say.
Wasn't it
Judith Miller
who used or
was used by
anonymous
sources to
report that
there were
weapons of
mass
destruction in
Iraq?
The
website goes
on, “Founded
in 1975, the
Women's
International
Forum
began with a
group of UN
spouses who
wanted to know
more about UN
and
global issues.
Today, the WIF
is a
highly-respected
organisation
with
members from
the diplomatic
community,
from the ranks
of
international
civil servants
and
UN-affiliated
non-governmental
organizations,
and women from
the New York
area.”
Judith
Miller's talk
was not open
to the press
(though,
strangely, all
delegates and
Secretariat
staff were
invited.) The
website
says,
"Lectures are
only open to
members and
their guests."
Inside
was former
Qatari
Ambassador
then President
of the General
Assembly,
now UN
official
Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser, who
in the former
two
roles railed
against Syria.
(Qatar is
supporting the
armed rebels,
who also stand
accused of
using chemical
weapons.)
Here
is a photo
near the end
of the session,
which Inner
City Press
staked-out.
For
the record,
Inner City
Press has
in the past
attended and
reported on
sessions of
the Womens
International
Forum, invited
by then
Ugandan
Ambassador
Rugunda.
That
was then; this
is now, at
today's UN.
Watch
this site.
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