Your United Nations at work

WHISTLEBLOWER READY TO TESTIFY:

A former U.N. official who was fired after warning his superiors of "flagrant mishandling" of the U.N. oil-for-food program will be the star witness at a congressional hearing this week.
Dr. Rehan Mullick, a Pakistani national who worked as a U.N. research officer in Baghdad from 2000 to 2002, is expected to be the first U.N. insider to publicly detail mass corruption in the program when he testifies before the House International Relations Committee tomorrow.

A spokesman for the committee said in a statement yesterday that Mullick "repeatedly warned his superiors in Baghdad and later in New York" that Saddam Hussein's regime was diverting humanitarian goods to his military and that Iraqi intelligence agents had penetrated the U.N. offices in Iraq.

"Despite his impassioned pleas, he was repeatedly demoted until his job was finally terminated by the United Nations in 2002," the committee statement said.

Stay tuned for the usual suspects to come out of the woodwork to attack this guy.