Chadster has been following the Oil for Food scandal involving virtually everyone in the UN Secretariat, but there’s been little to post recently. He links to this article about some of the ties to our “allies”:
One was a company – Galp International Trading Corp., linked to a Liechtenstein firm, ASAT Trust – that has been identified by the United Nations itself as “belonging to or affiliated with al-Qaida.” The other was a Geneva-based subsidiary of a Saudi company, Delta Oil, which had close financial ties in the 1990s to the Taliban, which provided safe haven for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
I’m sure the folks at the UN are consumed with other issues, and have no time to deal with the scandal. I know they’re really, really, really busy with the problems in Darfur. I just heard an update this morning. The UN is deciding whether to debate whether to appoint a commission to determine whether there is, actually, genocide being visited upon non-Muslims so they can debate whether some form of sanctions should be imposed on Sudan.
Now that’s busy!