As
Ban's
Spokesman
Claims Cocaine
Was "Not
Intended" for
UN, It Was
Delivered;
Past UN Mail
Room Arrest
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 27 --
After Inner
City Press yesterday
morning
exclusively
published,
and at noon
asked, about
14 kilograms
of
cocaine
brought into
the UN's mail
room, 24 hours
later
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
argued that
the bags
were "never
intended for
the UN."
UN
Security
sources tell
Inner City
Press there is
no way to know
that. The
courier, DHL,
obviously has
a policy or
practice of
bringing items
with the UN
logo on them
into the UN,
as happened
here.
Why, these
sources asked
Inner City
Press which in
turn today
asked Nesirky,
were the bags
spirited out
of the UN
before there
was any chance
to
see who might
come to try to
collect them?
Nesirky
argued
that the Thursday
evening press
encounter by
Gregory Starr
of the UN
Department of
Safety and
Security
had answered
all questions.
Inner
City Press
asked Nesirky
on Friday to
confirm that
under Starr,
DSS
disbanded its
Special
Investigations
Unit.
When
Inner City
Press broke
this story,
it asked "what
is ID/OIOS" --
the
Investigations
division of
the Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services,
from which Ban
Ki-moon
removed his
critic Inga
Britt Ahlenius
-
"doing about
drug
trafficking in
the UN?"
The
OIOS
investigative
division
ostensibly
took over for
the DSS
Special
Investigations
Unit which
Starr
disbanded.
Security
source tell
Inner
City Press
about a
"covered up"
probe by this
DSS unit of
drug
trafficking
using UN bags
in Haiti,
where the UN
has a
peacekeeping
mission.
Inner
City Press
on Friday also
asked Nesirky
to confirm
previous
arrest(s) of
UN
personnel
specifically
in the UN mail
room for being
involved in
drug
smuggling.
Nesirky said
he would
check. Video
here, from
Minute 8:46.
Well, here's
one, from a
publicly
available
indictment in
US Federal
court: 29-year
UN
employee Osman
Osman was
charged in
2006 with
facilitating
the import
of 25 tons of
illegal drugs
using his
position in
the UN mail
room.
Gregg
Starr shows UN
bags: DSS
Special
Investigations
Unit not shown
(c) MRLee
Given
this
history,
current UN
Security
sources and
now Inner City
Press ask,
why were the
bags spirited
out of the UN
before there
was any chance
to see who
might come to
try to collect
them? Who
might have
been
protected?
Watch this
site.
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