UNITED
NATIONS, June
25 -- After
Syria's
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari gave
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous
information on
involvement
from
Qatar in the
kidnapping in
Golan of
Filipino
peacekeepers,
Inner City
Press asked
what happened.
The
UN told Inner
City Press on
June 7 that
“Regarding
your question
on
Qatar earlier
today, below
is the
response from
DSS and DPKO:
The
United Nations
has no
evidence of
any
involvement by
Member States
or
state actors
in the
abduction or
detention of
UN personnel
in Syria.
To our
knowledge, the
peacekeepers
were detained
by individual
groups
operating in
Syria.”
On
June 25 Inner
City Press
asked Syria's
Ja'afari about
his request,
and that
above-quoted
response.
Ja'afari said
he also asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, but
neither Ban
nor Ladsous
had even given
a
written
response. He
concluded,
they didn't
even
investigate,
adding
that the UN is
awash in Saudi
and Qatari
petro-dollars.
Later
in his
stakeout,
Voice of
America's
Margaret
Besheer asked
Ja'afari
if he viewed
Hezbollah as
among the
foreign
terrorists
coming in from
Lebanon.
“Are
you a new
journalist or
an old
journalist?”
Ja'afari asked
Besheer.
You've
seen me
around, she
answered.
“If
you were a
professional
journalist,
you would not
ask me that,”
Ja'afari said.
There
was some
kerfuffle at
the stakeout,
perhaps
merited -- but
from many
who said
nothing when
UN official
Ladsous, paid
with public
taxpayer
funds, told
Inner City
Press, “You
know I do not
respond to you"
-- on
questions
about mass
rape by the
UN's partners
in the Congo.
And
so it goes at
the UN.
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