A Pakistani doctor was used in a fake immunization scheme. He is now in jail - alive. He is lucky.
A Ghanaian doctor was not so lucky. He is dead. He was shot in Pakistan. I victim of the mistrust of aid workers that is caused by reported CIA activities.
Pakistan has now expelled the entire foreign staff of an aid agency. It claims the agency was used as cover by the CIA. They could right, they could be wrong. We will never know. The CIA does not exactly wear its heart on the sleeve.
CIA operatives are well protected. The Firm is even prepared to pay blood money where operatives do commit crimes. They recently paid such money for an operative who murdered two people in Pakistan.
Operatives are also highly trained to deal with the dangerous situations they may encounter or create for themselves. The same cannot be said for aid workers. In most cases they are armed with nothing but their do-gooder hearts.
Unfortunately us mere humans, cannot see what is inside the heart. Simple goodness of the heart, is no defence when faced with highly suspicious and hostile populations who may have been victims of deceit, or know about such deceit being done elsewhere.
The sad thing is that the leader of the world's largest organisation involved in aid, Ban Ki Moon is totally silent about the dangers created for his workers by activities of particularly the CIA. He seems to come alive only when targeting regimes also targeted by the parent body of the CIA, the US government, and their allies. It is very unlikely he is a CIA operative, but by his actions he is reducing himself to a little more than a CIA plant in the UN.
In the years when I was a UN employee, it was supreme taboo for anyone to target UN workers of any sort. However now they seem to have become open season for anyone with a grievance and a gun or a bomb. There have been several very high profile bombings buildings and killings of UN staff.
Surely even a grotto salamander, without eyes, can see the link between aid workers increasingly becoming unsuspecting victims of aggrieved parties and the tendency of particularly Western intelligence agencies to plant operatives among aid workers.
The neutrality of the UN vis-a-vis geopolitical rivalries, has been seriously compromised in the eyes of many. It has become a little more than a Western foreign ministry. This perception of compromised neutrality, is affecting the safety of the hundreds of thousands of good people who dedicate their lives to helping others through UN work in dangerous places.
As such one would expect the UN to safeguard it's neutrality and integrity with all its might. Not so, especially under Ban Ki Moon. The UN has been increasingly flowing along with Western propaganda, increasingly parroting Western positions against a few targeted regimes while ignoring similar transgressions by non-targeted regimes.
For example, Bahrain has been allowed to literally get away with murder in supressing Arab Spring uprisings. In Syria, the one family dictatorship of the Al Assad family has been targeted with ferocious sponsorship of an armed insurgency. Bahrain is also a one family dictatorship. So are Saudi Arabia and Jordan, but those families are considered allies by the West. So they are given the free reign to oppress their people, with the UN faithfully trotting along with that position.
Yes it can be argued that the world is faced with increasingly vicious and much more dangerous aggrieved insurgent movements. In fact it is true. However when the UN is contrasted with an organisation like the ICRC, it is as clearly visible as the bottom of a baboon facing away from you, that the UN has unnecessarily given away some of its neutrality capital.
I believe that governments that have abused UN trust by planting their operatives among the staff should be held to account. Unfortunately such organisations as the CIA belong to the world's most powerful governments that are acting with unbridled impunity in pursuit of their narrow, ill thought-out and plain unwise agendas.
The mistaken perception that technological advancement equals all-knowing wisdom, sees many in the world allowing these organisations to act as they wish. However a logical analysis of their actions reveals that they are just as ignorant and prone to misjudgement as any other human. Their misjudgement should not be allowed to cost lives with impunity.
Countries like the USA have had great visionary leaders who have undoubtedly played a leading role in shaping the world into what it is today. However that great vision has not rubbed off onto later generations.
Most western leaders of today like Blair and Bush, are little more than petty crooks trying to use the great past history of their countries to leave a legacy but failing with horrible consequences for the peoples that are experimented upon such as the Iraqis and Afghans.
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