UN
Caught With Guns in Darfur
Airport, Month After UN in Iraq
Lost 18 Glocks, ICP Scoop
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 23 – One month after
the UN in Iraq "lost" 25
weapons, as exclusively
exposed by Inner City Press,
its peacekeepers in Darfur
were caught traveling through
the airport with non-Mission
guns.
When Inner City
Press asked the UN's holdover
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about it on January 23, his
canned response included
calling reports that the
peacekeepers were detained,
false. Or course not - they
have immunity!
Inner City
Press asked for an update on
the UN's supposed
investigation into losing the
25 guns in Iraq, which was
promised when Inner City Press
asked after its exclusive
story in December. No,
Dujarric said, no update.
Typical.
Back on December 20, the day
after Inner City Press asked
both US Ambassador Samantha
Power and UN spokesman
Stephane Dujarric about the UN
Mission in South Sudan giving
automatic weapons to warlord
James Koang, who killed
civilians, a new UN outrage
was brought to the attention
of Inner City Press and after
its publishing and asking
about it (video here),
was confirmed by the UN.
Since the UN
covered up its arming of South
Sudan warlord Koang, and
refuses to answer written
questions including about its
use of public funds, we
published this report on this
we'll follow up:
The UN Assistance Mission in
Iraq, UNAMI, under the
authority of the UN Department
of Safety and Security (DSS),
have “lost” 25 weapons from
their armory in their base in
the Green Zone in Baghdad.
The loss includes 18 Glock 9mm
pistols, 5 G36 assault rifles,
and 2 G36 sniper rifles.
Sources say that 10,000s of
thousands of rounds of
ammunition are also missing.
DSS only discovered or
internally acknowledged this
months after the fact and
cannot account for their loss.
The UN's Fijian Guard Unit
have had to start patrolling
inside the base.
This is an
outrage, on which we'll have
more. At the UN "noon"
briefing on December 20, Inner
City Press asked UN Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric about it. Video here. At first he dodged,
then got handed a statement by
his deputy that confirmed that
the "light" weapons are
missing.
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