IDF: Indictments to be filed against 13 UN employees (Annan to check out)

[papau]

Interesting - Canada is now upset, and Kofi Annan is dispatching a four-man investigating team, after the Monday interview by the CBC of UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen - where he said he was sure members of the militant Hamas organization were on the payroll in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but that he did not "see that as a crime...Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another." and that he does indeed expect employees to act with neutrality.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/485254.html

IDF: Indictments to be filed against 13 UN employees

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service


Israel Defense Forces chief of operations Yisrael Ziv did not confirm Tuesday evening whether or not the army was justified in its accusation that Palestinian militants had loaded a Qassam rocket into a United Nations ambulance in the Gaza Strip.

He also said the IDF has arrested 13 Palestinians employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency who are suspected of participating in terror activities in the Gaza Strip. The IDF will be filing indictments against the suspects in the near future.<snip>

He said that, regardless of what the filmed object actually was, UNRWA employees "are exploiting the organization's vehicles in order to support terror-related activities."

He added that the presence of an UNRWA ambulance in a location where explosive devices had just been planted was also suspicious.

Professionals from air force intelligence are adamant they have the expertise and the necessary equipment to properly identify images the Israel Air Force camera recorded. They have said a Palestinian was carrying a Qassam rocket, or at least an anti-tank missile, into an UNRWA ambulance in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza.

But in the wake of media pressure, the IDF has slightly modified its assessment, saying it still believes the object in the ambulance was a weapon but that it can't completely rule out the possibility that it was actually a stretcher.<snip>

[drdon326]

1. Wha ??.....UN hiring terrorists ??

I find that hard to believe.

Did I mention how much I really,really love and respect Kofi and
the UN ??

[Djinn]

2. the IDF abusing ambulances...

I find that hard to beleive ... did I mention how much I really, really love and respect the IDF??

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00058.htm
http://maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=8221

Mote meet beam :eyes:

BTW - Even the Israeli military has backed off this story:

"JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military has backed away from an accusation that Palestinian militants used a U.N. ambulance to transport a rocket to be fired at Israel, a charge that raised a stir within the world body.

Blurry video recorded by a military drone aircraft of the alleged incident has been removed from the army's Web site amid "some doubts about the identity of this (object), whether it is a weapon or an innocent tool," a senior army commander said on Tuesday.

(snip)

"An Israeli security source told Reuters the fact one person "lifted the object very easily into the ambulance suggested it was not heavy enough" to be a rocket."

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=597065§ion=news

[idontwantaname]

3. such ignorant paranoia and lack of credible evidence...

should be taken into account when idf accusses parties of being or associating with terrorists...

especially when the idf's solution to any problem is kill and ask questions later.

[Englander]

4. More malicious propaganda from IDF...

n/t

[tinnypriv]

5. And they "clarified" this as well

Saying they were arrested within the last four years and some are not even being held anymore.

Somebody must be scared the world is going to pay attention to their assault on Gaza.