U.N. Quakes over Scandal Book

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations officials are quaking over revelations made in a just released book about the world body that details wild sex and drug parties on peackeeping mission.

As first revealed by NewsMax, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" (Miramax Books), by Ken Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- all current or former U.N. employees -- has the potential of being a major embarrassment for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The U.N. desperately tried to stop the publication of the book -- even threatening two of the authors with possible dismissal.

Since NewsMax exclusively revealed excerpts of the book -- the book has gained worldwide attention, with reports in The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph (London), The New York Post, CNN and other outlets.

Pre-release book sales have also soared -- jumping more than 2 million slots in Amazon's ranking system.

The controversial hardcover is a compilation of personal memoirs by three U.N. peacekeeping employees over the last decade.

While the "interpersonal" relationships the book centers on is of minimal interest, what the intrepid U.N. employees see around them has lit fires in U.N. headquarters.

Drug taking and excessive drinking by U.N. personnel in Cambodia and other peacekeeping venues was common.

"Peacekeepers" sent by Bulgaria to serve in Cambodia were in reality prison convicts and psychiatric ward patients.

Details of a cover up by a senior U.N. official of an ambush of a U.N. convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia.

An allegation that U.N. chief Kofi Annan personally suppressed a report (1994) warning of an impending massacre in the African nation of Rwanda. At the time, Annan directed U.N. peacekeeping affairs.

More than 800,000 people in Rwanda and neighboring Burundi eventually lost their lives according to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.

In early April 2004, the two current U.N. employees (Postlewait and Thomson) received written and verbal warnings that they had violated staff rules and faced punitive action if the book was released and they promoted it.

The authors not only ignored the warnings, but have since begun a series of media interviews and plan a book signing tour later this month.

Miramax pointed out the book would be released since they are not bound by any U.N. restrictions.

U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard agreed, but insisted that the U.N. could and most likely will take action against the two employees.

Despite numerous reports that the U.N. has opted to do nothing other than reprimand the two authors, Eckhard has insisted that no final decision has yet been made. He also believes the final act will go beyond a formal reprimand.

The U.N. has the right to fire the authors but such an action must be accepted by a disciplinary committee.

Any action the U.N. brass eventually takes against the authors is expected to impact on the entire organization.

Some senior U.N. veterans with permanent contracts, feel that Annan and Co. will "chicken out" and just discipline the authors. They are now actively considering writing their own tales.

No desk big enough for Kofi to hide under

If there’s one book I can’t wait to get my nose into it’s Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures. The tell-all book, written by employees of the U.N.’s department of peacekeeping operations, is bound to be more intriguing than the divorce of Kofi Annan from first wife, Nigerian Titi Alakija.

Kudos to NewsMax.com for being first to break the story of the book and first to come up with a review of the book’s galleys. It’s just like NewsMax to beat the dreary drones of the mainline media to the scoop.

In Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson detail exactly how UN operations work.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the gang have been trying to stifle the release of the book and no one really wonders why.

One of the main edicts at UN headquarters is the one stating, "Thou shalt not tell." But tell is what Cain, Postlewait and Thomson did, first selling the book to Miramax and then asking permission for clearance, which was, of course quickly denied in Kofiland.

According to feisty Newsmax, while the book chronicles the "personal" misadventures of its trio of authors, "it also contains numerous references to instances of corruption and incompetence in the UN’s peacekeeping operations."

Downright comical when one considers that Kofi has his very own paper mill with which to send out his own gilded message. According to an Internet account, "Each year, a flood of UN documents and well over two billion pages is published at a football-field size printing press, located beneath the north lawn of UN headquarters."

As proof that global John Q. Public does not always buy into Kofi’s official message machine, are the statistics on advance sales of the book.

Since NewsMax broke the story of the book, advance sales at Amazon.com jumped more than 1 million slots in just two days; it went from 1.4 millionth place to 1,280th.

Meanwhile, while no one can censor the ever loquacious and tree-killing UN, the UN is doing its best to censor the daring authors of Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures.

The authors are the opposite of mealy-mouthed UN style in showing the outside world what is really behind the UN curtain.

The cigar-chomping Kofi may get a free ride from the mainline media, but not from his own employees.

Still turning up for his UN job in legal affairs, Ken Cain, a Harvard graduate says the world body’s election personnel "looks like the international jet set on vacation."

It seems that the grumpy old men and holier-than-thous running the UN, who have made their diplomatic careers on saving the wicked world with pacifism, drink like the proverbial fish on the endangered species lists.

Says NewsMax’s Stewart Stogel: "Sex parties in `a villa’ in the capital, Phnom Penh (are) well known for Friday night parties, supported by UN field personnel.

"A favourite drink, called the `Space Shuttle’ was made. Here’s how: "by distilling a pound of marijuana over a six-week period with increasingly good quality spirits. It is a work of love and the final product is an amber-colored liquid that tastes like Cognac. We drink it with rounds of coke."

"Peacekeeping troops" sent by Bulgaria to Cambodia were not military personnel but prison inmates and the patients of psychiatric wards--even though they arrived in military uniform to become UN Blue Helmets.

How’s that for UN weapons of mass destruction!

We all know about the UN $10 billion oil-for-food scandal.

The new book reveals how $3.5 million disappeared in broad daylight from the UN center in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Some $8 million has gone missing from operations in Angola. More than $20 million disappeared from the UN’s Cambodia relief effort and $10 million disappeared from a UNICEF operation in Nairobi, Kenya.

The hole in the UN’s pocket is gargantuan.

But this is only the United Nations in party mode.

UN Irresponsibility and accountability out in the field hurt the innocent.

Co-author Kenneth Cain claims the Bulgarian Blue Helmets were hated by everyone in Cambodia and described them as "A battalion of criminal lunatics (who) arrive in a lawless land. They’re drunk as sailors, rape vulnerable Cambodian women and crash their UN Land Cruisers with remarkable frequency."

Suppression seems to be in style at the UN.

"There is no black box, I don’t know what you’re talking about," Annan’s official spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters, looking for the flight recorder from the 1994 fatal crash that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.

Eckhard reinforced his comments with the pretext of peeking under his desk.

After this little drama, the UN propaganda machine went into overdrive, casting doubt on whether the black flight recording box was the one from the fatal 1994 air crash.

NewsMax later learned that despite the denials the voice recorder discovered in the locked filing cabinet at the UN peacekeeping department was indeed the one from the 1994 crash.

When Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures hits the book stands on June 9, no desk will be big enough for Kofi and Company to hide under.

Source: torontofreepress.com/

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