By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--June 28, 2011
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"Some believe that the motive behind the September 11 attacks was to ensure the safety of [the] Zionist regime, to foment insecurity in regional countries, to distract U.S. public opinion from the chaotic economic situation in the country, and to [line] the pockets of uncivilized, belligerent capitalists... Two years after the incident that provided an excuse for the invasion of two countries (Afghanistan and Iraq) led to the killing, injuring, and displacing of millions... the U.S. government, under pressure from public opinion, tasked a group to investigate the reason behind the attacks. But the real truth has been kept from the Americans and the world..."Khamenei and Ahmadinejad wouldn't let their conference go by without making sure they got together for a tête-à-tête with Sudanese president Al-Bashir. Perhaps Bashir gave them some friendly advice about how to brutally suppress their own people and get away with it. After all, Bashir can speak from long experience that continues right up to the present day. His Islamist Arab regime presses on with its relentless massacre of the defenseless black African population inhabiting central Sudan’s Nuba Mountains located in an area known as South Kordofan. Did the United Nations condemn the travesty of this supposed conference against terrorism hosted by terrorist-sponsoring Iran and attended by the international criminal Bashir? Did it call for the immediate arrest of the Sudanese president on the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court? Not a chance. To the contrary, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon actually praised Iran for its initiative in hosting the conference. The news agency FARS reported that in a message delivered to the conference via special envoy, Ban said:
"The U.N. has an important role in fighting terrorism and I hope that the Tehran conference can attain [this] great goal."FARS also quoted Ban Ki-moon as saying that the UN had approved a large number of resolutions against terrorism in recent years and that "holding conferences like the Tehran conference can be considerably helpful in implementing these resolutions." Lest anyone think that the UN Secretary General's words got lost in the translation or taken out of context, a UN spokesperson defended Ban Ki-moon's message to the conference, saying, “the UN believes that it is important for all nations to work together in the fight against terrorism.” How about we start working together "in the fight against terrorism" by ostracizing the state sponsors of terrorism like Iran itself, which has also flouted a series of UN Security Council resolutions aimed at stopping its drive for nuclear weapons? One of the best ways to start towards Iran's self-proclaimed conference goal of a "World Without Terrorism" is to strive for a world without the current terrorist Iranian regime. Instead, the UN continues to reward Iran for its bad behavior. Just last week, the UN General Assembly elected Iran one of its vice presidents and Qatar as president, each for a year-long term starting in September. Qatar is no angel either, by the way. Aside from financing the terrorists' propaganda arm, Al-Jazeera, Qatar protected terrorists, including the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to the 9/11 Commission. Sadly, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon let another opportunity go by without calling out the Iranian government's evil when he sees it and exposing its blatant hypocrisy. Instead, he allowed the United Nations to legitimize yet another Iranian exercise in anti-Western, anti-Semitic propaganda.
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Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.