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U.N. stiffs naive humanitarian tycoon $50 million

Why do I call the guy naive?  Read the intro of the story, and note the emphasis:

Kahraman Sadikoglu remembers the day in May 2003 when a U.N. agency asked him to move forward with a business deal that would make the world a better place — and help him earn a tidy profit.

“I was very proud to be working for the U.N., because the U.N. is the best in the world, and it solves the problems,” the Turkish shipping tycoon said in a recent interview. “I thought we were going to help the Iraqi people.”

Sadikoglu was asked by the U.N. to clear from the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr several sunken ships that were blocking this major supply artery into the war-torn country.

But nearly five years later, the colorful billionaire insists he’s out more than $50 million — with the meter running on another $100,000 a day in interest and expenses — and has been blocked from providing life-saving aid by the very agency charged with overseeing the project, the U.N. Development Program, or UNDP.

That’s not all. Dozens of crew members living on a virtual armada of Sadikoglu’s salvage ships — nine in all — remain stuck in limbo at an Iraqi port, unofficially held hostage, he claims, in a stalemate the UNDP seems uninterested in or unable to resolve.

Corruption, deceipt, and sleaziness. The United Nations: more useless than non-alcoholic beer in a Kennedy refrigerator.

February 28, 2008 - Posted by | corruption, United Nations

2 Comments »

  1. He obviously wasnt in contact with the guy who hands out bribes. He thought he was actually conducting BUSINESS not being bribed.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | February 28, 2008

  2. “the U.N. is the best in the world, and it solves the problems”

    The best what? More importantly, what precise world problems has the U.N. solved? Since it’s a favorite topic for liberals, let’s see how they were able to solve the problem with Saddam Hussein in Iraq. They passed sixteen resolutions in which Hussein repeatedly violated:

    UNSCR 678 – November 29, 1990
    UNSCR 686 – March 2, 1991
    UNSCR 687 – April 3, 1991
    UNSCR 688 – April 5, 1991
    UNSCR 707 – August 15, 1991
    UNSCR 715 – October 11, 1991
    UNSCR 949 – October 15, 1994
    UNSCR 1051 – March 27, 1996
    UNSCR 1060 – June 12, 1996
    UNSCR 1115 – June 21, 1997
    UNSCR 1134 – October 23, 1997
    UNSCR 1137 – November 12, 1997
    UNSCR 1154 – March 2, 1998
    UNSCR 1194 – September 9, 1998
    UNSCR 1205 – November 5, 1998
    UNSCR 1284 – December 17, 1999

    If you read these resolutions, they are basically a cascading list of condemnations for violation of the previous condemnations. In addition to the formal resolutions listed, there were 30 formal statements from the U.N. Security Council President between 1991 and 1998, all directed towards Saddam. In essence, when posed with a dangerous and brutal dictator, the U.N. writes nasty letters telling said dictator to behave or else they’ll write another letter.

    Yep – problem solved. Way to go, U.N. The time has long since past that the United Nations go by the way of the League of Nations.

    Comment by TheBad | February 28, 2008


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