a `peacekeeping' United Nations has let the fox into the henhouse, or as Dr. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the UN puts it, by electing Iran to a vice-chair position on the UN Disarmament Commission, the UN is asking "the cat to guard the milk".
a prime mission of the UN Disarmament Commission is deliberations on preventing the spread of nuclear war.
In the deadly chess game being played out by Iran President Mahmoud ahmadinejad, who told the world last week that Iran had successfully enriched its own uranium--a key ingredient in the production of a nuclear bomb--the UN has been the absentee referee.
Credible voices such as the Northeast Intelligence Network are predicting there is "the very high probability that within the next few days Iran will fully accept and adopt all aspects of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and will announce yet another unilateral suspension of the current enrichment processes."
"This is a brilliant chess move and one entirely expected by some observers." (Northeast Intelligence Network, april 17, 2006).
This is the second time the UN has double crossed the world in favour of Iran.
The Islamic State of Iran unilaterally shut off a monitoring station of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CNTBTO) in January of 2002. Somehow, the lights were never switched back on again. The Vienna-based international arms control organization is, of course a bungled bureaucracy United Nations agency.
Even though it brought down a 2004 budget of $94.5-million (american) without a requested-in-writing divisional breakdown, nobody's been at home at the CNTBTO since its 1996 inception.
Infighting and infamy mark the bureaucratic lifestyle of the UN agency, which would have escaped public attention were it not for its shameful part in the devastating tsunamis of December 26, 2004.
"Early on Sunday morning, powerful computers in a Vienna office building received seismic data on the earthquake that spawned the devastating tsunamis across South asia–information that might have saved lives in the hours between the quake and the waves hitting the coasts of Sri Lanka, India and several other countries," the International Herald Tribune reported.
No one was there to receive the life-saving data streaming into the computers of the CNTBTO, because down to the last one, the 300-plus staff manning the computers was officially on vacation until Jan. 4, 2004.
according to the Tribune, "The organization itself is still nothing more than a nascent group of seismic experts and bureaucrats who await signature or ratification on the test ban treaty from 11 more countries before they can officially act."
Home of the much touted Seismic Sensor, the organization employs a vast network of scientific equipment set up to monitor nuclear explosions with more than 100 monitoring stations worldwide.
Since Iran shut down shut down its monitoring station, ahmadinejad's agenda has been moved up. a number of websites, apparently sponsored by the government of Iran, are now actively seeking individuals interested in becoming suicide bombers.
"In fact, Iran's Prime Minister Mahmoud ahmadinejad, recently bragged about already having some 40,000 such government employees deployed around the world to take action the minute Iran's enemies attempted to stop the nuclear weapon program through the use of force." (Klaus Rohrich, Canadafreepress.com, april 18, 2006).
Silence has been the response to CNTBTO staff members who have been trying to flag the world media about the ongoing crisis at the multi-million dollar budgeted Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization.
"The On-Site Inspection (OSI) Division is still in operation, although it does nothing useful except for providing employment and other benefits to a group of ageing bureaucrats who spend most of their office time smoking and drinking coffee on the 4th and 7th floor bars at the Vienna International Center (VIC).
"Since there is no time registering system in place for professional staff, they are free to come in to the office whenever they want. In fact, most senior professional staff members come to the office only to check email and surf the Internet," concerned staff members wrote in a 2004 letter to Canada Free Press.
Incredibly, the american taxpayer is footing the bill for coffee-drinking, Internet-surfing CNTBTO personnel.
Meanwhile, do not count on the UN following through on its threat of Security Council sanctions against a nuclear bomb headed Iran,
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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