Kofi Annan is in trouble?

[MaryH]

For all kinds of immoral acts. Vote of no confidence from UN.

And he always seemed like such a nice man.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. you have link or something...

or are you just stream-of-consciousing us?

[Avalux]

2. Hmmm?

Link please; what immoral acts?

[MaryH]

4. I will have to find it again but it was serious stuff

Harrassing women, involvement in oil for money scandals - I'll find it.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. He was'nt the harrasser

Get yer facts straight...he pardoned the accused harrasser. :eyes:

[bryant69]

3. The Oil For Food Scandal?

? Or what?

Bryant
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[ckramer]

5. Maybe it's time for Clinton

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Here's the link

United Nations - United Nations employees were readying on Friday to make a historic vote of no confidence in scandal-plagued Secretary General Kofi Annan, sources have said.

The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote of its kind in the more than 50-year history of the United Nations, was set to approve a resolution withdrawing its support for the embattled Annan and UN management.

Annan has been in the line of fire over a high-profile series of scandals including controversy about a UN aid programme that investigators say allowed deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to embezzle billions of dollars.

But staffers said the trigger for the no-confidence measure was an announcement this week that Annan had pardoned the UN's top oversight official, who was facing allegations of favouritism and sexual harassment.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1623800,00.html

[sandnsea]

15. Well... one bright side to this..

Maybe... with Kofi Annan stepping down from the U.N. Secretary General position, Bush won't be able to use the oil for food scandal to undermine U.N. Authority. I was actually thinking of writing Kofi Annan and asking him to step down from the Secretary General position in order to restore credibility to the U.N., so the U.N. can take a more robust role in limiting Bush's agenda without being undermined by the oil for food scandal.

If the U.N. purges all of the officials involved with the oil for food scandal, Bush won't have any rhetorical slime to spit out at them when they bring the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against him and his administration.

I kind of figured the U.N. would start purging these people, so they could start restoring their credibility.

[theboss]

7. Here is a link

http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/392067.htm

I'm still not exactly sure what this means; I don't really understand how the UN's procedures work. But it sounds bad for Annan, not that he doesn't deserve it.

[BREMPRO]

9. this is very suspicious, and a familiar pattern

that one of the biggest critics of bush and iraq policy (calling it an illegal invasion- warnings about the breakdown of the rule of law) is being character "assassinated", scapegoated, and run out of office.

[RivetJoint]

10. Well in this case

Kofi DID "pardon" a guy who an investigation revealed had harassed a women. Kofi brought this upon himself. Not the oil for food scandal, I'm not so sure about...

[MaryH]

11. Here's another link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news
Sorry if I got the info wrong - but I was trying to see if anyone knew anymore about this. It does not sound good.

Now its gone. It was on Yahoo.

[BREMPRO]

12. this may be true..

i don't know the details of the allegations, but the coincidence was worth noting. I don't put anything beyond bushCo's reach or methods for taking down critics.

[RivetJoint]

13. Sometimes

People play right into the hands of their detractors...looks like Kofi suure did.

[DownNotOut]

14. Bush* will do whtever it takes

to break the back of the UN and bring in a more 'US friendly' S.G. MOre of the same...

D.N.O