SV: [Privsec] UN

[Gus Hosein]

The CTC is a very dangerous committee, and so I am pleased to hear that the 
Danes are involved.

How can we try to get ourselves in that door?  I'm willing to do just about 
anything that is required.

At 13:03 16/02/2005, Rikke Frank Joergensen wrote:

>Dk recently got on the UN Sec. Comm.; and will be charing the Counter 
>Terror Committee ! The Danisg gov. claim a wish to raise the HR profile 
>during the chair period...  lets see if there is any momentum to 
>use..  its definitily needed.
>
>Rikke
>
>
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>
>I can't seem to verify this article with any other sources, but it is
>interesting nonetheless.
>
>In particular:
>
> >Finally, the U.N. council should consider restrictions on the use of the
> >Internet to lure people "onto a terrorist path," the experts said.
> >
> >These could range from "stemming the distribution of extremist material
> >inciting to violence" to requiring Internet service providers to verify
> >who their customers are to adding to the U.N. list any Internet firm
> >providing services "designed to promote acts of terrorism," the panel said."
>
>I am increasingly annoyed by the UN Sec Council and its subcommittees, and
>so we should all keep a tighter eye on stuff like this, IMHO.
>
>"U.N. terrorism panel urges lost passport crackdown
>Tue February 15, 2005 10:46 AM GMT+05:30
>
>By Irwin Arieff
>
>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Governments should work more closely with
>Interpol to identify lost and stolen passports in order to thwart
>terrorists planning and executing attacks, U.N. experts said on Monday.
>
>The international community must also intensify efforts to track portable
>anti-aircraft missile systems, weapons of mass destruction and commercially
>available materials that can be turned into explosives to help deter future
>operations, the experts said in a report to the U.N. Security Council.
>
>The panel of experts was set up last year to evaluate the effectiveness of
>a U.N. program to crack down on the al Qaeda network and Afghanistan's
>former Taliban rulers.
>
>A council resolution approved shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on
>the United States required all 191 U.N. member-nations to freeze the assets
>of any person or group suspected of ties to al Qaeda or the Taliban.
>
>The measure also ordered governments to block suspects' travel and bar them
>from obtaining arms, funds or other resources. To help governments know who
>to look for, a council committee maintains a list of people and groups
>believed to have links either to al Qaeda or the Taliban.
>
>The latest report by the expert panel said al Qaeda remains a moving and
>constantly evolving target, requiring governments to continuously refine
>their programs to counter the group.
>
>The existing travel ban has failed to net any suspects, not because
>extremists do not travel but because the restrictions are too weak, the
>experts said.
>
>'A CLEAR LINK'
>
>Nearly 430,000 blank travel documents, including a large number of
>passports, have been stolen or lost and "law enforcement authorities have
>long identified a clear link between terrorist activities and the use of
>stolen or fraudulent travel documents," they said.
>
>All governments should join Interpol, which keeps a database of stolen and
>lost travel documents, and register all such documents with the
>international police agency and quickly invalidate them, the experts said.
>
>The council also should require governments to cancel any visa or residence
>permit issued to anyone on the U.N. list of terrorism suspects and either
>try them for crimes or send them home, they said.
>
>The Security Council should also urge governments to beef up border
>controls to prevent terrorist groups from using couriers to smuggle gold,
>diamonds and other precious commodities to finance their operations, the
>panel said.
>
>Finally, the U.N. council should consider restrictions on the use of the
>Internet to lure people "onto a terrorist path," the experts said.
>
>These could range from "stemming the distribution of extremist material
>inciting to violence" to requiring Internet service providers to verify who
>their customers are to adding to the U.N. list any Internet firm providing
>services "designed to promote acts of terrorism," the panel said."
>http://www.reuters.co.in/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&localeKey=en_IN&storyID=7628451 
>
>
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