Posted on 12/14/2004 8:20:52 AM PST by MikeEdwards
While some U.S. senators are clamouring for his head on the oil-for-food scandal, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is getting a prominent plug from Paul Heinbecker, Canada’s former Ambassador to the United Nations (2000-2003).
In the lead op-ed piece in yesterday’s Toronto Star, Heinbecker makes his plea to Resist rush to judgment.
Accusing Annan’s Washington detractors of employing “frontier justice”, Heinbecker calls for a disentanglement of the facts and politics of the oil-for-food program.
“According to the uber-hawks in Washington, including their birds of a feather in Congress, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan should not only resign, he should be arrested,” said Heinbecker. “And this at the outset, not the conclusion, of an investigation of the oil-for-food program (OFFP)--frontier justice, in the grand old West tradition.”
These days Heinbecker is senior research fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Director of the Centre for Global Relations, Governance and Policy at Wilfred Laurier University.
Nowhere in his bio at the end of the Star article does it mention that Heinbecker, if only by virtue of his pension, is on the UN payroll. . . . .
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