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| The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal |
| 2004-06-02 |
| via Townhall.com Michelle Malkin is like a bull terrier - and has been keeping FoxNews TV viewers up to date on the various shenanigans of the UN. She rocks. Michelle Malkin - June 2, 2004 The United Nations and Red Cross have been providing cover for terrorists -- literally. And American taxpayers are footing some of the bill. Last week, an Israeli television station aired footage of armed Arab terrorists in southern Gaza using an ambulance owned and operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Palestinian gunmen used the UNRWA emergency vehicle as getaway transportation after murdering six Israeli soldiers in Gaza City on May 11. The footage shows two ambulances with flashing lights pull onto a street. Shots and shouts ring out during the nighttime raid. A gang of militants piles into one of the supposedly neutral ambulances, clearly marked "U.N." with the agency’s blue flag flying from the roof, which then speeds away from the scene. AccessMiddleEast.org, a nonprofit global news monitoring service, posted the video (shot by a Reuters TV cameraman) on its Web site last week. To date, Access Middle East managing director Richard Bardenstein in Israel informs me, not a single U.S. television news station has expressed interest in showing the footage to American viewers. Why should we care? Because since 1950, the U.S. has provided UNRWA with $2.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies -- about one-third of the relief agency’s total budget. And because instead of investigating this latest black eye-inducing scandal, the U.N. is blasting American troops for defending themselves against such outrageous tactics -- now being emulated by Iraqi guerrilla warriors sniping at our men and women from ambulances in Fallujah. International relief officials are in stubborn denial about the abuse of their emergency vehicles and hospital credentials by terrorists. They claim the videotaped May 11 ambulance-assisted attack was an isolated incident and that the driver was forced to transport the gunmen. But this ambulances-for-terrorists program has been going on for years. And "humanitarian" workers have been willing collaborators. According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (CSS), senior UNRWA employee Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attalah confessed to using his official U.N. vehicle to bypass security and smuggle arms, explosives, and terrorists to and from attacks. He was in charge of distributing food supplies to Palestinian refugees. Nidal ’Abd al-Fataah ’Abdallah Nizal, a Hamas activist, worked as an UNRWA ambulance driver and admitted he had used an emergency vehicle to transport munitions to terrorists. U.N. vehicles aren’t the only ones being used by terrorists. An intensive care ambulance carrying the acronym of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was used to deliver an explosive belt found underneath a stretcher on which a sick child was lying in spring 2002. Female suicide bomber Wafa Idris, who blew herself up in a January 2002 attack in Jerusalem, was a medical secretary for the PRCS. Her recruiter was an ambulance driver for the same organization. PRCS receives financial support from governments and organizations around the world, including the American Red Cross and International Committee of the Red Cross. The UNRWA has long been suspected of providing aid and comfort to terrorists. Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, recently documented how "buildings and warehouses under UNRWA supervision are allegedly being used as storage areas for Palestinian ammunition and counterfeit currency factories." Cantor’s 2002 report also noted that UNRWA hosts summer camps in martyrdom for young terrorists-in-training. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., has also lobbied for increased scrutiny of UNRWA funding, which has been used to publish anti-Semitic textbooks and posters in schools that "glorify homicide bombers and the slaughter of innocents." Moreover, according to Rep. Smith, a UNRWA school hosted a Hamas rally by a key Hamas leader in July 2001 and another UNRWA employee praised homicide bombers, proclaiming: "The road to Palestine passes through the blood of the fallen, and these fallen have written history with parts of their flesh and their bodies." While jihadists gain shelter in its emergency vehicles, the U.N. continues to lambaste the U.S. for assorted wartime "atrocities." Not one more American dime should go to fund the bloody self-righteousness of the world’s most generous terrorist relief organization. ©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. It’s becoming hard to identify an Int’l Organization that hasn’t been marginalized, if not hijacked outright, by some insane group of ideologues. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #10 Maybe even worse, Phil B -- it was closer to a full million dead than a half, wasn't it? |
| Posted by: docob 2004-06-02 12:45:58 PM |
| #9 Where's the news here? They've been doing this for years -- probably for over a decade. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-02 10:36:22 AM |
| #8 D'oh! I double posted this - looked for it under Israel-Paleostine, not UN-NGO's, my bad, Fred |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-02 10:20:30 AM |
| #7 CF the UN's most important achievment of modern times is Rwanda. Half a million dead and Kofi was directly responsible. This is the UN where no failure goes unrewarded so they make him the boss. |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-06-02 10:19:44 AM |
| #6 Mike, read her book 'Invasion' (I am reading it now) about how the U.S. had (and still has) wide open immigration policies and how politicians (Clinton/Gore and yes even Bush) are putting politics before national security. dcreeper, in other words the moment we leave it it would stay the way it is... an anti-american league... Phil, I always said to put the U.N. smack in the middle of one of its greatest achievements.... the biggest mass grave in Iraq.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-06-02 10:05:59 AM |
| #5 Witout U.S.funding the U.N. ain't going to be doing much. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-06-02 8:35:23 AM |
| #4 so long as we stay in the un it remains incompetant and useless, the moment we leave it will turn into the anti-american league... I don't like that we are in the un, but I'm not sure leaving is a good idea either |
| Posted by: dcreeper 2004-06-02 7:50:43 AM |
| #3 The UN is corrupt, incompetant, unaccountable and out of control. The USA really should get it out of New York. I hear Mogadishu is nice at this time of year. |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-06-02 4:50:53 AM |
| #2 A couple months ago I saw Brian Lamb interview Michelle Malkin on BookTV for an hour, and it was one of the most interesting interviews I have ever watched. She has a great future as a polemicist. I've read her column regularly ever since then, but I have been disappointed that she has written so little about our country's weak immigration policies, which had been her primary subject. (This article here is much better than most of her recent articles.) Welcome back, NotMikeMoore, but try to make more sense. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-02 2:54:44 AM |
| #1 Not to mention their black helicopters circlng the globe |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2004-06-02 2:26:22 AM |