US Wants UN Human Rights Expert Fired for 9/11 Comments
Jan 25, 2011 – 6:44 PM
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States demanded today that the U.N. expert on Palestinian human rights be fired for suggesting that 9/11 was carried out by the U.S. government and then covered up by the American media.
"In my view, Mr. [Richard] Falk's latest commentary is so noxious that it should finally be plain to all that he should no longer continue in his position on behalf of the U.N.," said Susan Rice, U.S. envoy to the world body.
Falk, a law professor from Princeton University, wrote in his blog on Jan. 11 that "awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations" fuel suspicions that the United States staged the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Rice condemned Falk's "despicable and deeply offensive" remarks.
"The United States has in the past been critical of Mr. Falk's one-sided and politicized approach to his work for the U.N., including his failure to condemn deliberate human rights abuses by Hamas, but these blog comments are in another category altogether," she said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also blasted Falk for the remarks. "Recently, a special rapporteur suggested there was an 'apparent cover-up' in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States," he told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva today.
"I want to tell you, clearly and directly. I condemn this sort of inflammatory rhetoric. It is preposterous -- an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in that tragic terrorist attack," he said.http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/25/us-wants-un-human-rights-expert-richard-falk-fired-for-9-11-comm/?ncid=txtlnkusnews00000006
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