Posted on 10/13/2016 7:31:54 AM PDT by fella
Amal Clooney nearly caused an international incident at the Iraqi UN Mission of Iraq in Manhattan when she lectured the ambassador on Islamic State and showed up with an unauthorized camera crew.
According to the New York Post, the human rights lawyer wife of George Clooney originally demanded to meet with the prime minister at the mission during the UN General Assembly, but that was rejected and she settled for the country’s UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim, two Iraqi officials confirmed.
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She arrived with Yazidi refugee and Noble Peace Prize nominee Nadia Murad on September 15, and, right from the get-go, she used a “dismissive, lecturing tone” with Alhakim while discussing how to bring captured IS fighters to justice, one official said.
When the conversation turned to the Yazidi people, Clooney made it seem as if they were the only religious sect in Iraq being slaughtered by IS, the official said.
The ambassador and his staff tried to offer her a “full picture” outlining each group targeted by IS, but Clooney was “completely uninterested” and “tone deaf to the whole thing,” the official said, noting, “It was highly offensive. I have had cousins decapitated.”
Alhakim, who had 65 of his own family members exterminated by Saddam Hussein’s ruthless regime, became infuriated with Clooney and, at one point, turned to her, stating, “This is highly insulting. This is very unacceptable,” the official said.
Despite Clooney’s “obnoxious” behavior, the tense meeting lasted about 80 minutes because the Iraqi diplomats wanted “to be respectful to Nadia,” the official noted.
When the meeting finally ended, the parties went downstairs to the lobby, where Clooney’s “media team” carrying film equipment had shown up unannounced — a violation of standard protocols that required pre-approval by the mission, the official said.
Clooney requested an on-camera interview with the ambassador, but was quickly shut down and escorted outside with her posse.
“The main issue is what she did and how she did it is absolutely outrageous and using a victim of war crimes as an accessory and political currency. That makes my blood boil,” the official said.
Clooney’s personal assistant did not return an email request for comment and efforts to reach the lawyer by phone were unsuccessful.
The Mission of Iraq declined to comment.
I’m sure she’ll be going after Obama and Hillary next, right?
Amal Clooney....
Both the Yardis and Christians now have militias to defend themselves and recover their homelands from ISIS.
Why don’t you help them?????
“”she lectured the ambassador on Islamic State””
There’s actually an ambassador to these pigs that is allowed into the US?
According to liberals and media:
1) Amal Clooney’s proclamation that she will use the legal system to end ISIS is serious and logical
2) Donald Trump is a celebrity poser who has no business running for president
I am sure she’s completely unaware that Obama and Hillary were supplying ISIS with weapons.....and if she did know, well to quote Anita Hill (when asked about Billy Boy’s sexual abuses on the Saturday Today Show in 1998) ‘you really have to consider his(their) voting record(s)’.
The article is poorly written.
The Iraqi ambassador.
Iraqi ambassador, not ISIS.
I am sure she’s completely unaware that Obama and Hillary were supplying ISIS with weapons.....
And obama and hillary are plotting to let 9,000 ISIS prisoners free .....
Thats exactly what she was doing, and it is ridiculous.
Whatever they did to Christians and Yazidis, they have also done to Shiites, who are the Iraqi majority.
Kudos to Amal Clooney for raising a stink with the feckless Iraqi government about their failure to protect minority populations within their country.
More like this please.
If you want the ISIS ambassador you need to talk to Hitlery.
All a show.
She has in the past defended Libya’s Qaddafi main henchman. She wanted him out of prison while he awaits his trial knowing full well he would escape the country.
“”I inferred that she was lecturing the Iraqi UN Ambassador about the Islamic State.
The article is poorly written.””
Thanks for that clarification. I know it sounded odd but what today doesn’t sound odd?
Thank you...makes more sense....
So “Peace, Love and Understanding” didn’t win out, poor thing.
What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
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