Posts about United Nations Corruption as of October 29, 2009

Yar Adua s govt a failure, say Buhari, Atiku – VanguardAS the opposition s plot against President Umaru Yar Adua s perceived second term aspiration thickens in Abuja, yesterday, a former Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) described his administration as a failure. Not a few of the FDLR will soon be history-Obasanjo – Rwanda New TimesURUGWIRO VILLAGE – The United Nations Secretary General s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the problem of FDLR is being resolved by the European Union.

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From Yahoo News Top Stories 1 UN staff killed in bloody countdown to Afghan vote
by Sardar Ahmad, AFP
32 mins ago
KABUL (AFP) - Taliban gunmen stormed a UN guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least eight people in a suicide attack as the Islamist militia signalled a bloody countdown to new Afghan elections next week.
President Hamid Karzai ordered an urgent security upgrade for international

As President Obama crystallizes a new Afghan strategy , Taliban gunmen attacked a guesthouse in central Kabul, killing six United Nations employees and two Afghan security personnel. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid , warned there would be more attacks against “anyone who works for the second round” of elections. The New York Times reports that President Karzai ’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai , has been on the C.I.A. payroll for years despite the suspicion of his involvement in the drug trade.

By the looks of it, this NY Times story was going to tell the whole truth : The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan — By the looks of it, the ceremony that unfolded last week inside the Presidential Palace here was marking a joyous, even triumphant, occasion. President Hamid Karzai, flanked by Senator John Kerry and an array of Western ambassadors, had just announced that he would accept the revised vote totals showing that he had not won re-election after all.

he United Nations today called on Israel to immediately halt forced evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, warning that as many as 60,000 people there may be at risk of forced evictions, demolitions and displacement. Israeli authorities demolished the homes of six Palestinian families – 26 people, including 10 children – in East Jerusalem today.

Nicole Kidman is a fine actress. I’ve enjoyed her work over the years, and heartily congratulate her for her long and storied career. I also congratulate her for getting out of her marriage to Tom Cruise, but that’s another story. Now Kidman, like many Hollywood stars who want to prove that they’re more than just pretty faces, is involved in A Cause. Like Meryl Streep’s concern about healthy produce  and Heather Graham for ObamaCare , Kidman wants to Save Something.

The Afghanistan presidential elections, that are slated to begin on November 7th this year have been strongly boycotted by the Taliban and other radical Islamist groups. To show their discontentment, these terror outfits have begun a new campaign of terror in the country. Today, seven people, including three U.N officials were gunned down in a guest house, that serves as the residence for the United Nations officials. The attack took place in the early hours of morning and was comprised of heavily armed militants, with suicide bomb vests taped around them.

Separate and Unequal Homo-Groves Freemasons generally despise females — they even installed a black man before a white woman with extensive service — so while the Masons are woshipping cock and owls at Bohemian Grove, and making their overlord decisions, their bitches gather at Belizean Grove and play with their toys. Susan Schiffer Stautberg Susan Schiffer Stautberg is President of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages Advisory Boards globally for businesses, governments, and non-profits.

Let’s face it: there is a lot wrong with Russia. Twenty years after the fall of communism the man who gave the Soviet system the coup de grace, Mikhail Gorbachev, is complaining that there is no democracy in the country and that the Kremlin is not interested in fighting corruption or solving the murders of prominent critics such as journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The Russian Federation’s demographic and social problems are notorious.

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From Yahoo News Top Stories 1 Eight more US troops dead in Afghan war’s blackest month
by Lynne O’Donnell, AFP
1 hr 5 mins ago
KABUL (AFP) - Bomb attacks killed another eight American soldiers Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month for US forces in their eight-year war against the Taliban.
The latest attacks, which were claimed by the

Steve Coll is the author of Pulitzer-prize winning ‘Ghost Wars’ and a regular contributor to New Yorker magazine.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/10/26/091026taco_talk_collreprinted from the New Yorker, October 2009 issue.Over the summer, the Afghan Taliban’s military committee distributed “A Book of Rules,” in Pashto, to its fighters. The book’s eleven chapters seem to draw from the population-centric principles of F.M. 3-24, the U.S. Army’s much publicized counter-insurgency field manual, released in 2006.