UNITED
NATIONS, June
26 -- In
Somalia, UN
Mine Action
Service chief
David
Bax
passes
information to
US
intelligence:
a
whistleblower
in
Mogadishu has
alleged this
and Inner City
Press exclusively
reported
it on June 22,
four days ago.
But
despite
multiple
requests to
different
parts of the
UN for a
confirmation
or denial, the
UN has
remained
silent. Until
now.
On
June 26, after
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
re-directed
the
question from
UNMAS about
its chief
Agnes
Marcaillou
to the Somalia
Office
for the
Coordination
of
Humanitarian
Affairs
(UN envoy
Nicholas Kay
did not answer
Inner City
Press on
this), the
following
arrived:
Subject:
Your
questions on
Somalia.
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Wed, Jun
26, 2013 at
9:43 AM
To: Matthew
Russell Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
The
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations
does not
discuss
internal
communications
or emails
received with
media
correspondents.
UNMAS
personnel are
not authorised
to carry guns
and do not do
so.
This
is an evasive
answer. The
request was
and is not
only to
confirm
receipt by
DPKO chief
Herve Ladsous
of the
whistleblower's
complaint
but for a
substantive
confirmation
or denial of
whether UNMAS'
David
Bax provides
evidence,
including
genetic
information
and parts of
bombs, to US
intelligence,
including
through the
intermediary
Bancroft.
But the
UN will not
answer -- yet.
Instead, they
have opened a
witch hunt to
try to find
the
whistleblower(s).
On
the second
part of the
response,
Inner City
Press had
asked about
the
UN's
South African
state owned
military
contractor
Denel, paid by
the
UN in Somalia.
(Inner City
Press first
wrote about
this on June
19, here.)
Beyond
other
photographs
reviewed by
Inner City
Press,
several are in
the public
domain,
listing
“unidentified
foreigners”
as part of the
group going
into the
bombed
compound. See
here, here
and here.
The UN must
explain this.
There
are also
complaints
from a wider
range of UN
staff in
Mogadishu, not
only of
favoritism by
Bax but quid
pro quo in
hiring and
accommodation,
even...
attempts at
hypnotism.
We'll have
more on this
-- because the
UN must answer
these
questions.
Watch this
site.
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