UN Human Rights Official Wants Investigation Into US Government Role In 9/11

[dirtyp]

Thursday, April 10, 2008

John Bolton: "This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council."

An official in the newly formed UN Human Rights Council has called for a fresh investigation into the events of 9/11 in order to examine the possible role that neoconservatives may have played in the attacks.
http://ronpaulforum.info/index.php/topic,77.new.html#new

[Zippyjuan]

It is not the UN panel which has called for the investigation, but a man who has been nominated and chosen but not taken a job on the Council yet. He made the comments before he got the job. The UN and any part of the UN has nothing to do with it and is not calling for any investigation.

Mr. Faulk's position within the Human Rights Council is as Reporter on Palestinian Territories since 1967. What does that have to do with 9/11? And what does 9/11 have to do with a human rights pannel anyways?

Also this afternoon, the Council approved the list of candidates for Special Procedures mandate holders proposed by the President of the Council, who chose them out of candidates proposed by the Consultative Group which the Council appointed. The list included Ms. Raquel Rolnik (Brazil), Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context; Mr. Olivier de Schutter (Belgium), Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Mr. James Anaya (United States), Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people; Ms. Najat M'jid Maala (Morocco), Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; Mr. Cephas Lumina (Zambia), Independent Expert on the effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights; Mr. Thomas Ojea Quintana (Argentina), Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar; Mr. Richard Falk (United States), Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967; Ms. Maria Magdalenan Sepulveda (Chile), Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty; and Ms. Gulnara Shahinian (Armenia), Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences.



He has not even stepped into the job yet- that takes place later in the year.

His quote in the article does not say that he thinks there is any coverup or was any deliberate action by the government or anybody in the government- only that he thinks not all the questions have been answered- and the statement was made before he was named to the UN panel- it is not the UN panel asking for an investigation from what I can get from the blog.


He has also compared Israel to the Nazis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7335875.stm