Maulvi Mustafa Barakzai, one of only two Afghan members of the UN-backed Election Complaints Commission (ECC), resigned today complaining that the foreign members of the panel had been making all the decisions without them.
The UN said it regretted the resignation, but insists that it still has full confidence that the ECC will produce a “fair” outcome in its investigation of the August election, marred by enormous fraud.
The resignation is likely to draw yet more uncomfortable attention to allegations that the UN’s Mission to Afghanistan has been going out of its way to cover up the extent of the fraud by incumbent President Hamid Karzai.
Last week the ECC published in detail the rules it would be following for its recount, which seemed aimed at ensuring that no amount of fraudulent ballots would be enough to force a second round of voting, something UN officials have publicly said they oppose. The ECC’s chairman, Canadian Grant Kippen, insists that the strategy is statistically sound.
"Times are such, that one is rarely disappointed in the depth of one's pessimism, with any aspect of governance. However this open feud between the top two U.N. officials in Afghanistan serves to illustrate how utterly corrupt the U.N. is. BUT, hey, with the probable corrupting parties holding the trump card of veto, there is no chance any truth or justice will come of any deliberations of wrong.
Power corrupts and having a veto is the ultimate power seems to have taken us a world farther in corruption. How does it work, do the permanent members just call on the phone to request a result?
Miraculously, there seems to be a whistle blower. But, no problem the veto trumps any result any inquiry….. As the U.N. moves on with it's practice of handing this or that country over to those who pay for their private jets and endless meals credits, we have their corrupt ways in the spotlight"
I wrote the above three days ago……………..
NOW, there is ANOTHER whistle-blower that has come forward to condemn the IMPERIOUS U.N and
their lackeys for the empire. Hey, who is to argue?? Elections are divisive and make alot of enemies.
Why not pretend there is an election and then call it as the boss wants, or better yet let the highest bidder and THEIR friends "win"……
And………………OOOO…Ya..Gotta luv this….. "A spokeswoman for the Electoral Complaints Commission, Nellika Little, rejected Barakzai's allegation, saying the Afghan commissioner "was an integral part of the commission" and took part "equally in all commissioner meetings." She said the resignation "will not distract" the group from completing its investigation." MMMMMMM
WAIT, IT GETS BETTER, MUCH BETTER..!!!
"The chairman of the commission, Canadian Grant Kippen, told reporters Monday that it had misinterpreted the statistical analysis used to determine what percentage of votes for each candidate would be voided in ballot boxes deemed to have been faked.
Kippen told reporters last week that each candidate would lose votes in proportion to the number of fraudulent ballots cast for them in a sampling of suspect boxes.
But Kippen said Monday that each candidate would lose the same percentages of votes from suspicious boxes based on the number of fraudulent ballots found in the sample. That means votes legitimately cast for a candidate could be canceled if they were found in ballot boxes that were deemed to have been stuffed in favor of another contender.
Kippen insisted that the rules had not been changed and were statistically sound. But confusion stemmed from miscommunication between statisticians who designed the mathematical procedure and commissioners whose role is to determine whether the individual boxes are fraudulent.
"It hasn't affected the process," he said. "It has probably affected people's perception of the process."
WHO IS GRANT KIPPIN??
# Grant Kippen – Co-founder and Principal of the Hillbrooke Group; former Senior Resident Director (Afghanistan), National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_the_Study… ]
So the head of the U.N. commission which decides who wins in Afghanistan is a Co founder of Neocon outfit Holbrook associates… I wonder how Kissinger fits in this tidy little picture???