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Iraq UNSC Statement While Guterres Covers
Up For UN Staffer's Rapes There
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UN GATE, July 21
– Hypocrisy on Iraq by the UN
under Antonio Guterres is on
display. Guterres has covered
up the rapes of Iraqis by UN
former staff member Karim
Elkorany, arrested then freed
on $500,000 bond on September
2, 2020 in connection with
drugging and raping women in
Iraq while working for the UN
in 2016, then allegedly lying
to the FBI about it in 2017.
See below.
But on
July 21, 2021, with Guterres'
main spokesman / censor
Stephane Dujarric on extended
vacation, the UN Security
Council issued a boiler plate
statement while refusing to do
any oversight of UN rapes, or
Guterres' censorship: "The
members of the Security
Council condemned in the
strongest terms the cowardly
terrorist attack in Baghdad,
Iraq, on Monday, 19 July 2021.
The attack, which was claimed
by Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh),
resulted in at least 30 deaths
and at least 50
injured.
The members of the Security
Council expressed their
deepest sympathy and
condolences to the families of
the victims and to the
Government of Iraq, and they
wished a speedy and full
recovery to those who were
injured.
The members of the Security
Council reiterated their
support for the independence,
sovereignty, unity,
territorial integrity,
democratic process and
prosperity of
Iraq.
The members of the Security
Council reaffirmed that
terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations constitutes one
of the most serious threats to
international peace and
security.
The members of the Security
Council underlined the need to
hold perpetrators, organizers,
financiers and sponsors of
these reprehensible acts of
terrorism accountable and
bring them to justice, and
urged all States, in
accordance with their
obligations under
international law and relevant
Security Council resolutions,
to cooperate actively with the
Government of Iraq and all
other relevant authorities in
this regard."
A
superseding indictment
belatedly unsealed on October
29 said Elkorany raped a UN
contractor, in the US and
Dohuk, Iraq. And still the UN
did nothing.
On November
9, another brief status
conference in the case, which
Inner City Press live tweeted:
AUSA Richenthal
says the US is reviewing more
electronic devices.
Elkorany's lawyer
Dawn Cardi asks for 90 more
days' delay, since some of the
discovery is marked
"Restricted."
Judge Buchwald:
In the times of COVID, to
maintain social distance
between lawyer and defendant,
90 days is not unreasonable.
We are heading into the end of
the year period, very
different this year. I ask you
to make sure that the 90 days
is all the time needed
And so
February 9 at 10:30 am was
arrived at. And Inner City
Press again covered it, here
and below (Podcast here)
Now on May
17, Elkorany's lawyers say
they "have provided to the
government defense counsel's
pretrial motions... we intend
to confer with the government
about its view as to how to
proceed in terms of filing
and/or redacting and/or
seeking the Court's permission
to file under seal certain
documents." Secrets about UN
rapes - but this is a public
process, despite the UN's
routine cover ups. Watch this
site.
From February 9: Elkorany's
lawyer wants to delay 90 days.
The Assistant US
Attorney says given the
victims in this case they want
to move faster.
Elkorany's lawyer
says she has some state trials
so she need more time.
Now AUSA says 30
days to respond to defense's
motions. That would be June
10. And see here.
Inner City Press,
which has asked the UN in
writing for comment, will
continue to cover it.
The
US Attorney for the Southern
District of New York stated
that Elkorany,
"a former
communications
specialist
with the
United Nations
in Iraq, was
charged in an
Indictment in
Manhattan
federal court
with two
counts of
making false
statements to
special agents
of the FBI in
an effort to
conceal his
drugging and
sexual assault
of multiple
women while he
worked for the
UN...In or
around
December 2016,
Victim-1
reported the
sexual assault
to the
UN. The
UN initiated
an
investigation,
through which
ELKORANY was
notified of
the substance
of Victim-1’s
allegations
against him."
The UN
claims it has a zero tolerance
and blacklisting policy for
sexual abuse, but despite a
victim complaining to the UN
in this case, on Wednesday
Elkorany was leaving freely in
New Jersey when he was
arrested.
The
superseding indict which was
intially wrongly kept under
seal says Elkorany raped
Victim-2, a UN contractor, in
Dohuk, Iraq and in the US. So
the UN's inaction contributed
to the rape of a UN contractor
- and still NOTHING from the
UN of Antonio Guterres. We'll
have more on this.
On
September 16 the US Attorney's
Office, already under fire for
withholding information, filed
a Protective Order to withhold
from the Press and public
information about this UN
official's "names and/or other
identifying information or
photographs of individuals
alleged to have been sexually
assaulted and/or drugged by
the defendant or with whom the
defendant had a romantic or
physical relationship; (b)
non-public nude, semi-nude, or
sexualized photographs," if it
has been " provided to the
Government by the United
Nations." So the UN has been
producing pornography, and is
not itself indicted, only this
Elkorany? We'll have more on
this.
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