On
Yemen, Ban's
Replacement
Failed in
Libya &
Even in
Sana'a,
UNdisclosed
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, April
16
--
How weak is
today's UN?
Earlier
this evening,
Inner City
Press reported
that despite
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
claims to
stand behind
the UN's envoy
to Yemen Jamal
Benomar, who
refused to
call Saudi
airstrikes
positive, Ban
was planning
to replace
him.
After
that Inner
City Press
report, the UN
Spokesman sent
out this a
canned
statement that
Benomar
"expressed an
interest in
moving on."
But for whom?
Before
all this, on
February 6,
2015,
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported:
"UNSMIL's
former deputy
Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed
of Mauritania
has been moved
to head
UNMEER, the
UN's Ebola
mission.
Sources in
Yemen say Ould
Cheikh Ahmed
was the UN's
“designated
security
official” when
a UNICEF
staffer was
taken hostage
while
traveling to
the Sana'a
airport
without the
required (and
needed)
security
detail. Some
say Ould
Cheikh Ahmed
was
distracted, in
Yemen and
later in
Libya, by side
business
interests.
"But
a check of Ban
Ki-moon's
Public
Disclosure
website, where
his officials
are supposed
to make
rudimentary
disclosure of
the finances
and outside
business
interests,
does not even
list Ismail
Ould Cheikh
Ahmed (while
numerous other
Deputy SRSGs
are listed).
His is not in
the most
recent
database, for
2013 - and may
escape any
disclosure by
become an
Under
Secretary
General with a
mere nine
month stint at
UNMEER. Then
what? We'll
stay on this."
So,
no matter how
much of a
sycophant for
the Saudi-led
coalition he
is, how can he
get this post?
How can the
"P4" support
this? Watch
this site.
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