In the face of mounting criticism of his role in the corrupt August election, UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide has agreed to step down from his post in March, and has advised the UN Security Council to find a replacement by then.
Though it had widely been assumed Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon would approve a second term for Eide in March, a spokesman for the Afghan mission says Eide decided against it. Despite this, the spokesman said the move wasn’t technically a resignation and that the criticism of Eide played no role in his decision.
The Norwegian diplomat’s position has been met with increasing scrutiny since late September, when he fired his assistant Peter Galbraith after Galbraith repeatedly complained about Eide’s decision to withhold evidence of voter fraud in the August election.
After his firing, Galbraith said that Eide had ordered him to cover up specific instances of fraud and had told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he supported his re-election campaign.
Eide denied the accusations and insisted it was appropriate for the UN to withhold the data it had collected which showed widespread voter fraud. Karzai was eventually appointed to an additional term in office after the run-off vote was canceled.
Like anything complicated, the whole Eide episode is difficult ti follow and understand…….
at first when Galbreath called Eide on his insistance to keep the vote fraud quite, it seemed that Galbreath was the brave whistleblower, but then I found this……………………………………………… http://www.innercitypress.com/unama1leak121109.ht… O.K., O.K., so he has an financial interest in one of the oil companies trying to do business in Afghanistan.. Not good for sure, but O.K.,O/K., he could be doin the right thing IN SPITE of the $$$$$$$…. ''In October 2009, Dagens Næringsliv (a Norwegian financial newspaper) published a series of articles alleging that Galbraith was a paid consultant for the Norwegian oil company DNO (which is currently engaged in exploring oil reserves in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). This charge was investigated by the New York Times which concluded that Galbraith "received rights to an enormous stake in at least one of Kurdistan’s oil fields in the spring of 2004".[2] Feisal al-Istrabadi, also a participant in the Iraqi constitutional negotiations, has said that the revelations "implicates the legitimacy of the entire constitutional process in Iraq […]. We shouldn't have had an oil company drafting the Iraqi constitution" But then I found his moer or less PARTNERSHIP with Holebrook, neocon No. 1 in Afghanistan….. And that he was doing the empires dirtywerk in the Balkins with Richard Holebrook….. Also.. "Galbraith was one of the most vocal Democratic supporters of the attack on Iraq, having signed a March 19, 2003 public letter (.pdf) — along with the standard cast of neocon war-lovers such as Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Danielle Pletka, and Robert Kagan — stating that "we all join in supporting the military intervention in Iraq" and "it is now time to act to remove Saddam Hussein and his regime from power." As intended, that letter was then praised by outlets such as The Washington Post Editorial Page, gushing that "it is both significant and encouraging that a bipartisan group of influential foreign policy thinkers, veterans of both Democratic and Republican administrations, has signed on to a statement of policy on Iraq that makes sense on the war." Oh G-d, Here is the neocon corruption of U.S. interests in full flower…… This Galbeaith is Holbrooks "But Buddy" when it comes to foreign policy and aggressive war and occupation……….. So what is with his [serely ersatz] "whistle blowing"..?? KEEP YOUR EYE ON THIS SLEEZBALL 24/7 HE IS BAD NEWS..!!!!!!!!!