AccessMiddleEast.org, a nonprofit global news monitoring service, posted the video (shot by a Reuters cameraman) on its Web site. Access Middle East managing director Richard Bardenstein tells me not a single U.S. TV news station has expressed interest in the footage.
Why should we care? Because since 1950, the U.S. has provided UNRWA with $2.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies - about a third of the agency's total budget. And because instead of investigating this latest black eye-inducing scandal, the U.N. is blasting U.S. troops for defending themselves against such outrageous tactics now emulated by Iraqi guerrillas sniping at our forces from ambulances in Fallujah.
International relief officials are in stubborn denial about the abuse of their emergency vehicles and hospital credentials by terrorists. They claim the May 11 ambulance-assisted attack was an isolated incident and that the driver was forced to transport the gunmen. But this ambulances-for-terrorists program has been going on for years. And "humanitarian" workers have been willing collaborators.
According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies, senior UNRWA employee Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attalah confessed to using his official U.N. vehicle to bypass security and smuggle arms, explosives and terrorists to and from attacks. Nidal 'Abd al-Fataah 'Abdallah Nizal, a Hamas activist, worked as an UNRWA driver and admitted he used an emergency vehicle to transport munitions to terrorists.
