Voltron
Jun 14, 2004, 08:07 AM
New book into UN's background.
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations officials are quaking over revelations made in a just released book about the world body that details wild sex and drug parties on peackeeping mission.
As first revealed by NewsMax, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" (Miramax Books), by Ken Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- all current or former U.N. employees -- has the potential of being a major embarrassment for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The U.N. desperately tried to stop the publication of the book -- even threatening two of the authors with possible dismissal.
Since NewsMax exclusively revealed excerpts of the book -- the book has gained worldwide attention, with reports in The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph (London), The New York Post, CNN and other outlets.
Pre-release book sales have also soared -- jumping more than 2 million slots in Amazon's ranking system.
eek competing with Clintons book.
Among many of the "observations" presented in the book:
Drug taking and excessive drinking by U.N. personnel in Cambodia and other peacekeeping venues was common.
"Peacekeepers" sent by Bulgaria to serve in Cambodia were in reality prison convicts and psychiatric ward patients.
Details of a cover up by a senior U.N. official of an ambush of a U.N. convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A demanded kickback of some salary from U.N. employees to their supervisors.
An allegation that U.N. chief Kofi Annan personally suppressed a report (1994) warning of an impending massacre in the African nation of Rwanda. At the time, Annan directed U.N. peacekeeping affairs.
More than 800,000 people in Rwanda and neighboring Burundi eventually lost their lives according to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
Miramax pointed out the book would be released since they are not bound by any U.N. restrictions.
The U.N. has the right to fire the authors but such an action must be accepted by a disciplinary committee.
The two authors are so-called "contract" or fixed-term employees.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/13/120450.shtml
They forgot the food for oil fiasco and how all these higher ups are trying to stiffle the investigation of the guilty.
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations officials are quaking over revelations made in a just released book about the world body that details wild sex and drug parties on peackeeping mission.
As first revealed by NewsMax, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" (Miramax Books), by Ken Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- all current or former U.N. employees -- has the potential of being a major embarrassment for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The U.N. desperately tried to stop the publication of the book -- even threatening two of the authors with possible dismissal.
Since NewsMax exclusively revealed excerpts of the book -- the book has gained worldwide attention, with reports in The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph (London), The New York Post, CNN and other outlets.
Pre-release book sales have also soared -- jumping more than 2 million slots in Amazon's ranking system.
eek competing with Clintons book.
Among many of the "observations" presented in the book:
Drug taking and excessive drinking by U.N. personnel in Cambodia and other peacekeeping venues was common.
"Peacekeepers" sent by Bulgaria to serve in Cambodia were in reality prison convicts and psychiatric ward patients.
Details of a cover up by a senior U.N. official of an ambush of a U.N. convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A demanded kickback of some salary from U.N. employees to their supervisors.
An allegation that U.N. chief Kofi Annan personally suppressed a report (1994) warning of an impending massacre in the African nation of Rwanda. At the time, Annan directed U.N. peacekeeping affairs.
More than 800,000 people in Rwanda and neighboring Burundi eventually lost their lives according to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
Miramax pointed out the book would be released since they are not bound by any U.N. restrictions.
The U.N. has the right to fire the authors but such an action must be accepted by a disciplinary committee.
The two authors are so-called "contract" or fixed-term employees.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/13/120450.shtml
They forgot the food for oil fiasco and how all these higher ups are trying to stiffle the investigation of the guilty.
