In
UN
Terrorism
Sweepstakes,
Orr Shouldn't
Get Job,
Slayer of
Ruperez Tells
ICP
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 23 -- As
the UN moves
toward a
counter-terrorism
coordinator,
it should not
and in all
probability
will not be
American Bob
Orr.
This
verdict was
exclusively
delivered to
Inner City
Press on June
22 down the
same
hallway where
earlier in the
month the
Advisory
Committee on
Administrative
and Budgetary
Questions shot down
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon's
request to
upgrade Orr's
public-private
partnership
post to
Under
Secretary
General
status. See
exclusive here
by Inner City
Press.
Rather
than Orr,
the job should
go to Michael
Smith, the
current holder
of the top
spot in the
Counter-Terrorism
Executive
Directorate.
The verdict
was
by the slayer,
in UN-ese, of
Javier
Ruperez, a
past holder of
this
CTED post.
Inner
City Press
covered
Ruperez'
ouster at the
time, linking
it to a
dispute about
the
anti-Islamic
Danish
cartoons.
Ruperez then
sought out
Inner City
Press and gave
a long
interview --
which he then
declared all
off the
record. So the
story was
never told.
But
now it has
been revived.
Ruperez'
slayer on June
22 told Inner
City Press
that
in the
triggering
incident, one
of Ruperez'
staff was
blaming
"Islamists"
for terrorist
attacks in the
1990s in
Trinidad. The
slayer
questioned
this, and
Ruperez
stepped in
with a string
of
insults and
profanity.
You
are insulting
not me but
Qatar, said
the slayer.
And soon the
audio tapes of
the
meeting were
produced and
transcribed
and a demarche
made to the
Secretary
General.
Ruperez
was toast,
barely thanked
at his final
Security
Council
appearance
except by
then US
Permanent
Representative
Zalmay
Khalilzad (who
Inner City
Press has
spotted
several times
this late
Spring inside
the North
Lawn
building).
Ruperez
told Inner
City Press he
would go West
to Chicago, as
Spain's consul
there. That
the slayer of
Ruperez says
Orr can't get
the job is not
past news but
future, so we
report it here
today.
There'll be
another
related
story: watch
this site.
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