(...)  Another disturbing revelation from captured documents is the support provided by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for the "Koran and Sunna Society" of Kalkilya. UNRWA has been heavily penetrated by Hamas for years; Hamas members dominate many of its unions, including the teachers union. But this new link represented a further deterioration in the U.N.'s connections, for the "Koran and Sunna Society" defines itself as salafi -- it adopts doctrines from militant Islam. Indeed, the "Koran and Sunna Society," which has six branches in the West Bank, distributes pamphlets published in Saudi Arabia that are often written by radical Wahhabi clerics. References to the value of martyrdom and jihad are not uncommon in these materials. One of the Society's schools, called "The Martyrs of the Al-Aqsa Intifada," received payments from UNRWA for educating children of Palestinian refugees in March and June of 2004.   
(Source-Powerline)     -End item

So we have not only an Oil-for-Food scandal hot on the stove, we've thrown on yet another scandal that apparently has been brewing for some time now. This didn't just happen yesterday. More importantly, on Dec 14, 1999, the UN UN Press Site, Inter Press Service, Associated Press, reported that the United Nations adobted an international convention aimed at cutting off funding for terrorist activities. The convention marked the first time that fund-raising for terrorist activitities would be considered a crime by international law. According to the convention, officially titled the "International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism,"  it would be an offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally to finance a person or an organization in the commission of an act that constituted a terrorist offence. Under the convention, an offence is also committed if financing is provided for an act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to any person not taking part in armed conflict.

In the very same press statement mentioned above, the UN also issued a statement saying, "The new convention recognizes that financing is at the heart of terrorist activity and paves the way for concerted action and close cooperation between law enforcement and financial authorities."

Ouch! Sounds like Koffi and his team haven't been quite up to par in their job performance or they are purposefully allowing the funding of terrorism within the office of the UN. In either case, poor job performance or purposeful funding of terrorism, he either knows or he doesn't know what is going on under his watch. Ergo, it's time for Koffi to smell the coffee, wake up, walk out, and leave the UN behind him making it as distant a memory as possible, as soon as possible. 

In Powerline's post he concludes with a Dore Gold comment which adds: "Besides getting to the bottom of the Oil-for-Food scandal, it is equally vital to get the U.N. to halt its backing of recognized international terrorist groups." He notes that the Bush administration gave the U.N. a special status in the Arab-Israeli peace process by making it part of the multilateral "Quartet" -- along with the U.S., the EU and Russia. Isn't this an organization that needs to be sidelined for the good of, well, the world?

Well said, but perhaps rather than being sidelined, we just dissolve it.