Did UN Corruption Help Build Hamas Terror Tunnels?

Frontpage Mag ^ | 08/12/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[SeekAndFind]

With the UN everything is possible and this Fox News report by George Russell certainly raises some questions.

While controversy continues to swirl around the huge Hamas tunnel network in Gaza, an internal United Nations audit report reveals that a U.N. Development Program office that funds and monitors spending on construction in the territory allowed at least five non-staff contract employees to handle “core” procurement processes that only staffers are supposed to handle, including those for ordering up “significant” civil construction activities.

At the same time, the office’s internal financial tracking system — a UNDP-wide system known as Atlas — was improperly recording at least $8 million worth of civil construction spending at far less than its full value, a practice that UNDP auditors noted could keep the activity under the radar of higher-level U.N. officials who must approve purchase orders above defined cost threshold levels.

Moreover, the Palestinian program office was not properly keeping track of expenditures or receipts in the financial system. The auditors noted that in a sampling of 41 payment vouchers, 12 purchase orders did not have receipts recorded in the system. “This practice,” the report noted, “increases the risk of paying for goods that are not delivered.”

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The report adds a new level of potential credibility to Israeli accusations that internationally-managed relief supplies to Gaza were diverted into construction of the elaborate and highly-engineered tunnels under the territory that were used by Hamas terrorists to launch and coordinate rocket attacks and incursions into Israel that dramatically escalated in March.

[riverrunner]

Help? they most likely allowed and supported it.

[Diogenesis]

So did Lois Lerner, abetted by Issa and Cummings.

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[driftdiver]

exactly, probably engineered them as well.

[rbg81]

Yup. Even if they are initially “honest”, I’m sure any UN supervisor soon fears for his/her life in Gaza. That, plus the vast majority of UN employees are Palestinian.

[OldSmaj]

The UN is a totally corrupt and putrid organization.

Noble intentions died an ignoble death, a long time ago.

I don't know the true stats, but I would estimate that for every 5 dollars they receive for their "do-gooding", at least 4 of them ends up in the pocket of some low-life piece of human excrement.

The real tragedy is that the US taxpayer foots a large, hugely disproportionate share of this boondoggle travesty.

And for the "one-worlders", such as our homosexual POTUS, it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I'm sorry, I was obviously thinking out loud...obama is not really the POTUS...he is a piece of human excrement, who happens to be homosexual, among many, many other things.

[Ingtar]

I was going to post that the word corruption was not needed in the title.

[C210N]

It was a big deal in Stalag Luft III to hide the extra yards of dirt from Tom, Dick and Harry. And so it is a big deal to bury 800,000 TONS of concrete into tunnels instead of schools, hospitals, homes, even bomb shelters.

The UN shows its true colors every day, but none so blatant as “finding” rockets at UNRWA, and then instead of destroying them, or surrendering them... they GIVE THEM to Hamas for launching.

[McGruff]

The UN helping Hamas, I am shocked to hear this. Shocked.

[sr4402]

We Americans gave money directly to Hamas. Guess that went to terrorists, tunnels and weapons as well.

Isn't it time we shut that spigot off?

[pgkdan]

Of course they did. Is there really any doubt?

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[OldSmaj]

We Americans gave money directly to Hamas.

I am not a part of that "we". At least not willingly. I donate very sparingly and belong to few organizations...so unless my NRA dues or FR donations were hijacked and sent to the mohametans, they did not receive a penny from me.

Tax money is a different matter.

That asshat in the White outHouse probably arranged for a hell of a lot of tax money to flow to mohametan coffers, but that is another story entirely.

Guess that went to terrorists, tunnels and weapons as well.

Do you have any illusions about that?

I don't. I know what the monsters did with the money.

Isn't it time we shut that spigot off?

Don't know how you'd do that...as there always are and always will be the idealistic fools that throw their money down the nearest rabbit hole, if it soothes their misguided conscience.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep, the staffers at the UN were taking kickbacks for cooking the books.

[Logical me]

COMMUNISTS AND DICTATORS OF THE WORLD run the UN.

[SJackson]

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The intent of the organization, not corruption

[GOPJ]

That, plus the vast majority of UN employees are Palestinian.

Link?

[rbg81]

Oops...I meant in Gaza.