Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 00:35:02 +0200
UNMAS Admits Works with FBI, SpinsSpins
<http://www.innercitypress.com/unprobe5coverup040414.html>
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African Skies Ltd
Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJRxipPIBNY
By Matthew Russell Lee, Follow Up on Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS, April 6, 2014 -- When UN Mine Action Service director Agnès
Marcaillou took questions on April 4, Inner City Press asked her about
whistleblowers' complaints against the head of UNMAS in Somalia, David Bax
<http://www.innercitypress.com/unmas1somalia062213.html> . Video here.
<http://youtu.be/CJRxipPIBNY>
The UN told Inner City Press that its Somalia de-mining boss David Bax was
fully exonerated by an investigation by the UN Office of Project Services
that followed an Inner City Press exclusive expose of Bax sharing
information with US intelligence through Bancroft Global Development
<http://www.innercitypress.com/unmas1somalia062213.html> .
But Inner City Press later exclusively obtained a UNOPS letter to Bax that
says "However, the Internal Audit and Investigations Group referred several
issues to management, including your trip on an African Skies Limited
flight."
There is a problem here: as even the UN's report on mercenaries in Somalia
notes, Bancroft has had a financial relationship with African Skies Limited,
to provide security at the Mogadishu airport. Click here for UN report
<http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E
4FF96FF9%7D/A_HRC_24_45_Add.2.pdf> , see Paragraph 45.
So a favor from African Skies Limited is a favor from Bancoft, to which
Bax gave information including genetic information from suicide bombs.
On April 4, Inner City Press asked Agnès Marcaillou and UN Peacekeeping's
Dmitry Titov about this UNOPS letter -- which Ms. Marcaillou told Inner City
Press she had not seen. (The whistleblower's initial complaint was also
sent to UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous, who never responded and refuses
to answer Press questions, see video <http://youtu.be/rm1V-cY9u40> and UK
coverage
<http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2013/10/meet-matthew-lee
-scourge-united-nations> .)
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq, on the UN
video, says to Marcaillou that UNOPS clearly said no further measures were
warranted. Video <http://youtu.be/CJRxipPIBNY> at Minute 8:11.
What then does the referral back to management of the African Skies issue
mean? We'll have more on this.
In the video, Agnès Marcaillou says that the UN works with the US Federal
Bureau of Investigation -- she claims the UN trains them -- and Titov speaks
of Bancroft, which numerous Somalia sources say is a company that works with
US intelligence. We'll have more on this too -- for now, see this video,
including Haq at the end.
UNOPS' Paul Lucas' "Dear David" letter, dated December 9, 2013, also
references sexual harassment. That involved, among other things, putting UN
staff at risk by doing favors for "a girlfriend," and breaking the rules of
Bax' own UNOPS camp.
The larger question is even when the UN conducts an investigation and
announces a results, including case exoneration, can it be believed? On
investigation into charges of gang rape by UN peacekeepers in Mali, the UN
has told Inner City Press that the investigation is complete -- but not the
result <http://www.innercitypress.com/mali1rapeunresult011614.html> .
Back on November 4, 2013, Inner City Press asked Anton Katz, Chair of the
UN "Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the
exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination" about the Group's
report on Somalia - and if he had met David Bax. (He had, in Cape Town.)
The report states
<http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G13/153/79/PDF/G1315379.pdf?Open
Element> for example that
"The Working Group was informed by UNMAS that to avoid this problem, their
agreement with Bancroft requires that when conducting EOD and counter-IED
operations, Bancroft employees must remain a minimum of 500 metres behind
any front line. This type of rule might serve as an appropriate safeguard in
other contracts as well... The Working Group notes that at least one
employee of Bancroft pleaded, and was found, guilty in a South African court
of, inter alia, recruiting persons for mercenary activities in Côte d’Ivoire
and providing logistical support for the venture [See High Court of South
Africa (Transvaal Provincial Division), case number A2850/03 of 2 and 20 May
2005 (ZAGPHC 248).]"
Why are the UN, AMISOM and UNMAS working with Bancroft Global Development?
What do they do together? Inner City Press has been informed by
whistleblowers beyond Somalia that Bax has been part of the process by which
genetic and DNA information from IED bombings have been transferred to US
intelligence.
There are also detailed accounts of Bax using UN and private contractor
resources, without mandate, for a close friend. The problem here, it is
reiterated, is that it put others at risk on Bax's whim. We'll have more on
this - because the UN Secretariat says again and again that it puts staff
safety first. This for example is the rationale, as Inner City Press also
exclusively reported, for threatening to close down in New York the UN
cafeteria and Dag Hammarskjold Library.
<http://www.innercitypress.com/undm1rampcafe020714.html>
As with January Security Council president, Inner City Press offered
thanks to Katz for the briefing for the new Free UN Coalition for Access
<http://www.funca.info> , which will continue to push for increased
transparency from the UN on cases like that of Bax, particuarly given the
slated changing of the guard in the UN Spokesperson's office, click here for
that <http://www.innercitypress.com/funca1spoxnmd022414.html> . Watch this
site.
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