U.N. Soldiers Spread AIDS Worldwide

Justice For Whistleblower
Bush/Powell Urged to Reinstate Linda Shenwick

Washington, D.C. - In letters to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell, members of Congress have urged the new Administration to reinstate U.N. whistleblower Linda Shenwick to her job at the U.S. mission to the U.N. Shenwick had been the source of numerous revelations about waste, fraud and abuse at the world body, including the disclosure that U.N. officials covered-up the fact that U.N. soldiers were spreading the deadly disease AIDS around the world.
Former Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright, who wanted to keep Congress in the dark about corruption at the world organization, fired Shenwick from her post as the top budget analyst at the U.S. mission to the U.N..
In a February 8 letter to Bush, Senator Charles Grassley says the president should restore Shenwick to her position and therefore send "a positive message to public servants who report wrongdoing in government…" Reps. Cliff Stearns, Tom DeLay and Dan Burton urged Secretary Powell in a February 8 letter to reverse the Clinton-Gore-Albright action against Shenwick and make sure that she returns to a job where she can perform "oversight of the U.N."
Among Shenwick's revelations: there is no budget cap at the U.N. and no staff reductions have taken place; procurement fraud still exists; the U.N. office of internal oversight, which is supposed to investigate fraud, has been weakened; a code of conduct for U.N. employees has not been implemented, and doesn't apply to senior officials anyway; and there are no rules against nepotism.
One of Shenwick's most frightening revelations is that U.N. and U.S. officials concealed the fact that U.N. "peacekeepers" were spreading the deadly disease AIDS in countries where they were deployed. The U.N. Security Council last year held a special session on the epidemic, which also examined the role of U.N. soldiers in spreading AIDS. But Shenwick told America's Survival President Cliff Kincaid in an interview that "Ambassador Albright told us in 1994 that she had been informed that a large majority of U.N. peacekeepers were infected with the HIV virus or actually had AIDS, and she told us not to go out of the room with that."
"The U.N. is probably responsible for spreading AIDS into Cambodia," Shenwick says. Indeed, a Danish television documentary makes that charge, noting evidence that U.N. soldiers' appetite for sex sparked the AIDS epidemic in Cambodia. Asked about the charges, one U.N. official excused the sex by saying that, "Boys will be boys." The U.N. "solution" to the problem has been to authorize a condom-a-day for peacekeepers. (30)

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