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The Washington Post reports on the broadening of the United Nations sex scandal:
The United Nations is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct by U.N. personnel in Burundi, Haiti, Liberia and elsewhere, which is complicating the organization’s efforts to contain a sexual abuse scandal that has tarnished its Nobel Prize-winning peacekeepers in Congo.
The allegations indicate that [...]

Yesterday morning, I received notification of a new blog ad submission titled “The UN Counterterrorism Program.” The ad text is as follows:
“…every time we stand up for human rights and fundamental freedoms, we stand up against terrorism. Every time we act to resolve political disputes, we act against terrorism. Every time we make the rule [...]

A Baltimore Sun article about sex columnists includes an interesting aside about the priorities of staffers at the United Nations Association (a non-profit organization that supports the work of the United Nations):
After Jess Beaton’s boss recovered from his initial embarrassment, [her sex column] became kind of “an office joke” - which got old fast.
“It was [...]

As the United Nations’ 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women meets this week in N.Y., Wendy McElroy of ifeminists.com asks an excellent question:
How can a self-respecting woman, let alone a feminist, legitimize the U.N. through her presence?
Read the whole thing.

Reuters reports on a possible resignation in the wake of the U.N. Congo peacekeepers/predators crisis:
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The U.N. representative in the Congo, American William Lacy Swing, may soon resign his post following allegations of widespread sexual abuse by peacekeepers, diplomats said on Monday.
Swing, due in New York on Thursday to confer [...]

This time in Haiti. From AP:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The United Nations is investigating a woman’s allegations that she was raped by three U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan, a U.N. official said Tuesday. The men claim they paid to have sex.
The 23-year-old woman made the report to the police over the weekend, said Damian Onses-Cardona, a [...]

Didja hear about the U.N.’s new blog, run by former Kerry aides Peter Daou and Debra DeShong? Among the blog’s initial entries are an attack on FOX News’s Oil for Food investigative report and links to pro-Kyoto Treaty propaganda.
Yeah, that’ll solve Kofi Annan’s problems.
Interestingly, in a mass e-mail I received frou Daou yesterday he writes:
You [...]

My new column today focuses on the United Nations’ continuing rape scandal. In addition to the crisis in the Congo, I remind readers of the rampant sex crimes uncovered in Bosnia:
In 2001, American whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska policewoman who worked for U.N. security in Bosnia, uncovered scores of sex crime allegations and prostitution rings [...]

Six U.N. peacekeepers from Morocco have been arrested for alleged sex crimes in the Congo. The BBC report is here. The head of the Moroccan contingent of UN peacekeepers and his deputy have also been canned.
Now, let’s move on to U.N. headquarters. Kofi?
Hat tip: Wes Roth
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Who is Didier Bourguet?
The U.N.’s Congo crimes

Source: ABC News
This is Didier Bourguet. He’s a United Nations senior official from France accused of running an Internet pedophile ring in the Congo, where the U.N. was supposed to be protecting vulnerable people.
Last night on ABC’s 20/20, one of the MSM’s best investigative reporters, Brian Ross, broadcast a damning segment on Bourguet and the [...]

Benon Sevan is the name that will be on everyone’s lips tomorrow. Bunch of media outlets have previews of the U.N. Oil For Food investigative report to be released in the morning. The Washington Post writes:
The report, by a U.N.-appointed inquiry headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker, alleges that Benon Sevan’s management [...]

He’s got the votes of the grass-roots organization Move America Forward, which is spearheaded by the forces behind the Gray Davis recall. According to WND:
“The United Nations is a corrupt and failed institution that dedicates much of its time to attacking American policy and passing anti-American initiatives,” said Move America Forward co-chairman Melanie Morgan, a [...]

Shame, shame, shame. This just in from UPI:
The U.N. watchdog office says peacekeeping troops have continued to abuse girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes paying two eggs for sex.

U.N. peacekeeping officials say member states providing the soldiers must send sterner commanders and toughen punishment for perpetrators.
A report from the U.N. Office of [...]

The U.N.’s Mr. Stingy now says our military assets–helicopters, boats, and other transport equipment–are “worth their weight in gold.”
You’re welcome, ingrate.
Meanwhile, The Diplomad reports on an outrageous suggestion from a local U.N. rep that our military personnel in Aceh (as well as Australians helping out with air ops) take off their uniforms and put on [...]

Kofi Annan is assuring victims of the massive earthquake/tsunamis overseas that help is on the way:
The United Nations is sending special teams to countries hit by the killer quake and the tsunami waves, even as all UNICEF offices in the quake-hit region have been mobilised to support relief efforts.
“UN disaster assessment and coordination teams are [...]

Annan Pledges to Aid in Oil-For-Food Probe

The heat is on. Washington Times is reporting: House Republicans call for Annan to step down
Excerpt:
“The oil-for-food program is a scandal of enormous proportions, and it may reach into the highest levels of leadership at the U.N.,” said Rep. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who introduced a resolution yesterday calling for Mr. Annan to resign. [...]

Move America Forward has launched an ad campaign calling for the expulsion of the U.N. headquarters from the U.S:
Americans must demand our government remove the United Nations from our borders and cease serving as the major financial supporter of an organization that has veered from its original purpose.
The United Nations was originally founded according to [...]

Reuters reports on despicable acts by United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo:
The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
The accusations include pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an [...]

When Catherine the Great toured the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century, the story goes, bureaucrat Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin constructed elaborate fake villages in order to impress her.
Now, there’s a 21st century twist on the Potemkin village: Potemkin refugee camps! The Washington Post reports that before U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s visit to [...]

Hazardous material experts were called to U.N. headquarters on Monday after a suspicious powder was discovered on the 27th floor, according to Reuters.
Free Republic poster Martin Fierro observes: “Have Blix inspect it. He’ll have an answer for us in five years or so.”
Or maybe they should just ask these guys.