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UN official claims 9-11 was US plot
Updated at: 1615 PST, Wednesday, January 26, 2011
NEW YORK: UN Human Rights official Richard Falk wrote on his blog that there had been an "apparent cover up" by American authorities.
He added that most media were "unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events" on 9-11, despite it containing "gaps and contradictions".
And he described David Ray Griffin, a conspiracy theorist highly regarded in the so-called "9-11 truth" movement, as a "scholar of high integrity" whose book on the subject was "authoritative".
Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, described the comments as "preposterous" and "an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in the attack." But Ban said that it was not for him to decide whether Prof Falk, who serves the organization as a special investigator into human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, should be fired by the UN.
Vijay Nambiar, Ban's chief of staff, said this was up to the human rights council, a 47-nation body based in Geneva, Switzerland, that was created by the UN in 2006.
UN Watch, a pressure group that monitors the organisation, has called for Prof Falk to be sacked. Hilel Neuer, the group's chief executive, described him as "a serial offender with zero credibility".
The row came as the new Republican-led US Congress opened an inquiry into "urgent problems" with America's contribution to the UN, including its membership of the human rights council.
UN official claims 9-11 was US plot - GEO.tv
Updated at: 1615 PST, Wednesday, January 26, 2011
NEW YORK: UN Human Rights official Richard Falk wrote on his blog that there had been an "apparent cover up" by American authorities.
He added that most media were "unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events" on 9-11, despite it containing "gaps and contradictions".
And he described David Ray Griffin, a conspiracy theorist highly regarded in the so-called "9-11 truth" movement, as a "scholar of high integrity" whose book on the subject was "authoritative".
Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, described the comments as "preposterous" and "an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in the attack." But Ban said that it was not for him to decide whether Prof Falk, who serves the organization as a special investigator into human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, should be fired by the UN.
Vijay Nambiar, Ban's chief of staff, said this was up to the human rights council, a 47-nation body based in Geneva, Switzerland, that was created by the UN in 2006.
UN Watch, a pressure group that monitors the organisation, has called for Prof Falk to be sacked. Hilel Neuer, the group's chief executive, described him as "a serial offender with zero credibility".
The row came as the new Republican-led US Congress opened an inquiry into "urgent problems" with America's contribution to the UN, including its membership of the human rights council.
UN official claims 9-11 was US plot - GEO.tv
