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06/08/2004: "Please let the UN run Iraq! (Part 5)"

According to the New York Post, the UN isn't happy with some of its employees:

Three United Nations fieldworkers are publishing details of sex, drugs and corruption inside U.N. missions–despite an attempt by the world body to block their book.

Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia.

The controversial volume, due out next week, charges that some U.N. officials demanded that 15 percent of their local staff's salaries go directly to them instead; that Bulgaria sent freed criminals to serve as peacekeepers; and that incompetent U.N. security has cost lives.

The U.N. hierarchy tried to block the book using a rule requiring that U.N. staff get approval before writing about their work. Permission was denied.

No doubt.