UN: Most Somalian Food Aid Goes To Islamic Militants, UN Workers And Contractors

Tell me again why it's so criticial for America to support the United Nations? The corruption never ends and often the aid does more to support our enemies, than the needy.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Much of the food aid intended for Somalia's poor is diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local U.N. workers, according to a Security Council report.

The findings, not yet made public, were first reported by The New York Times Tuesday.

A UN diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the report has not yet been released, confirmed to the Associated Press that "a significant diversion" of food delivered by the UN food program is being diverted to cartels who were selling it illegally.

The Times said the report recommends Secretary General Ban Ki-moon open an independent investigation into the World Food Program's Somalia operations.

The report also found regional Somali authorities to be collaborating with pirates and says that government ministers have auctioned off diplomatic visas, the Times reports.

Comments

[Major Kong]

What an absolutely worthless organization.

[Ken Hahn]

The UN, the bastard child of the one-worlders and the utopians, has never accomplished a single thing that could not have been done better and cheaper by individual countries. It will always be a highly expensive and totally corrupt fantasyland.

[xerocky]

The UN has to exist to support greedy parking garages on the upper east side. Otherwise I could just as well park in a "diplomats" designated spot.

[Elmo]

An AP report? Crikey ... Ima lookin at de calendar and it ain't April Fools yet ... what gives? [Edith Lederer, Katharine Houreld, and John Heilprin must all have nice nest eggs saved up (I imagine Mohamed Shiekh Nor is already dead)].

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