Reply #27: Deliberate...Like November 2002 [View All]

[MrPrax]

British UN worker unlawfully shot

A British UN project manager shot by an Israeli sniper was unlawfully killed, a UK inquest has concluded. Iain Hook, 54, of Felixstowe, Suffolk, was in a UN compound in Jenin when he was shot in November 2002.

On Friday, jurors unanimously agreed Mr Hook, who was born in Essex, had been the victim of a "deliberate" killing.
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Earlier Dr Peter Hansen, former Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said that over the past four years 13 UNRWA workers, including Mr Hook, had been shot in similar circumstances by the Israeli army.

Mr Hook was the only non-Palestinian.

On Monday in a statement Paul Wolstenholme, a colleague of Mr Hook who was in the compound at time of the shooting, said the Israeli special forces sniper would have known Mr Hook was not a Palestinian.

"It was not a case of mistaken identity, it was a deliberate act," he said.

BBC
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Why was an unarmed Briton shot in the back?

Six months after an Israeli sniper killed a top UN official, his family still wait for answers

Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Wednesday May 7, 2003
The Guardian

Six months ago, Jack Straw sounded as if he really meant to lay bare how an Israeli army sniper came to shoot an unarmed British former army officer in the back.

The foreign secretary said "everything" would be done to ensure a thorough investigation into the killing of Iain Hook, the head of a UN project to reconstruct the obliterated heart of the Jenin refugee camp. But today Mr Hook's colleagues accuse Israel of covering up "cold-blooded murder", and Britain and the UN of complicity by quietly trying to bury the truth to avoid a political confrontation.

The day after the sniper shot Mr Hook as he stood in the UN compound in Jenin last November, Israel promised Mr Straw a full account of the killing. Now Israel says its inquiry has been "put aside".

The UN launched its own investigation but its report so disturbed staff, who called it a whitewash, that it was rewritten and the final version has not been made public. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has retreated from Mr Straw's pledge and brushes aside questions about the failure to explain the killing as a private matter for the Hook family.

Guardian

Go Fuck Yourself...Kofi

You let the US and Israel piss all over YOU and your Organization for the entire time of your pathetic tenure...you are an absolute disgrace and part of the problem.

Let's not forget that this creature WAS the Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations during Rwanda and one of the chief reasons, according to Romeo Dallaire's book, that UN troops were utterly abandoned by this American favoured UN puppet.

You got to be nuts to put on a blue beret if this guy is in charge -- if deployed in Lebanon, Israel will kill them.