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In reply to the discussion: UN seeks immunity for UNRWA employees complicit in Oct. 7 massacre - Channel 12 report [View all]Eko
(9,098 posts)63. From your article.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said he learned in March of allegations that Sharif had been a "member of the political party of Hamas" and decided to suspend him and launch an investigation "from day one."
"So he was suspended, had no function, was not paid and was under investigation," Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva. "We are still an agency with due process I mean, respecting due process and the principle of rule of law. So the investigation was ongoing."
Lazzarini said he had received a letter from Israeli authorities listing the names of some 100 people allegedly linked to Hamas, and he took it "very seriously." But he said Israeli authorities never responded to UNRWA requests for more information so that it might launch investigations into those cases.
The US military does not tolerate racism whatsoever?
The report also described the soldier as a Florida National Guard member who was sentenced in 2018 to five years in jail for possessing bomb materials. And a footnote refers to an AP story about that person, Brandon Russell, a loner from Tampa who was 22 at the time of his sentencing.
While Russell was serving in the Guard, officials later told reporters, he displayed on his right shoulder a tattoo bearing the radiation-warning symbol the insignia of the Atomwaffen Division.
But neither the tattoo nor his purported statements to his Army colleagues raised a red flag prior to his arrest, a command investigation later found. Army Guard officials said they lacked a database of extremist tattoos they could refer to, according to press reports at the time.
https://rollcall.com/2021/02/16/pentagon-report-reveals-inroads-white-supremacists-have-made-in-military/
Lawmakers ordered the Defense Department to prepare the report after they raised questions last year about how it screens recruits and about recent cases of service members linked to white supremacist causes.
The report recounts how some service members were discharged after they were found to be active supporters of the neo-Nazi group known as the Atomwaffen Division and the white nationalist American Identity Group.
Others were disciplined but not kicked out of the force, it said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/pentagon-report-warns-threat-white-supremacists-inside-military-n1258871
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UN seeks immunity for UNRWA employees complicit in Oct. 7 massacre - Channel 12 report [View all]
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
OP
There will be rallies in support of the criminals in Teheran and Columbia University.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#2
They just got started back then. They didn't learn yet how to do things wrong.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#14
The UN is the defendant in this case. The hostage families are the plaintiffs.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#11
UNRWA is being sued for the damages the terrorists did wheb they vwere employed
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#44
The validity or legality of the instrument of immunity afforded to the UN is not in dispute here.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#51
The immunity clause in the UN founding charter is absolute, and so is the UN discretion in using it.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#54
Disgusting. The UN was created to prevent wars, not protect and enable terrorists.
SunSeeker
Sep 2024
#7
Known fact: There were Hamas operatives operating under cover as UNRWA workers
Mysterian
Sep 2024
#50