The United Nations inspectors in Iraq
Emperor Darth Misha I at the
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler finds a link which tells the story of how the U.N. Inspectors were spending their time as they were in Saddam's Iraq (hint: they were supposed to be checking to see that the UN sanctions were being followed.):
Emperor Misha writes:
bq.
"Just Give the Inspectors Time to Work!"
Thanks to L.S. Mope, we have some details on
just how the inspectors were passing their time in Sod'em Insane's Iraq:
UN inspectors in Iraq spent their working hours drinking vodka while ignoring a shadowy nocturnal fleet believed to be smuggling goods for Saddam Hussein, a former senior inspector told the US Senate yesterday.
bq. No wonder Blixie's Pixies wanted 12 more years. They must have figured that that was about all they had before their livers exploded.
bq. But at least they weren't running child prostitution rings or raping toddlers like their fellow UN employees elsewhere.
In a move that provoked fury from officials of the Swiss firm Cotecna, an Australian former inspector detailed a picture of incompetence, indifference and drunkeness among the men acting as the frontline for UN sanctions.
bq. That would be the same Cotecna that got fat on the Oil-for-Fraud Scam, the same Cotecna that Koffing Anus' son Kojo worked for.
bq. Beginning to see a pattern here?
Arthur Ventham, a former Australian army officer and customs officer, joined the operation in 2002 and worked at various sites in Iraq and neighbouring states.
He said that at Iskendurun in eastern Turkey, some officials had refused to work.
When he asked one of his bosses why, he was told: "They were friends or relatives of potential clients, and are only in the mission so the company could secure future contracts in Nigeria, Comoros and another African country.
bq.
"Inspecting? Are you
crazy? We're here to skim some of the the fat from Koffing Anus' sweet little scheme."
"When I said that this was unfair on everyone else, I was told that it was general practice in Cotecna."
bq. *Tap, tap*
bq. Nope, not as much as a twitch of the needle on our Surprise-O-Meter™.
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Posted by DaveH at February 17, 2005 5:54 PM