Security Guard Shot Dead In The UN? Maybe Kofi Annan's MP-5 Carrying Goon Squad?

The UN wants your gun - you peasant.  Looks like they killed this
security guard.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/335/region/Security_guard_found_shot_at_UP.shtml

Security guard found shot at U.N. headquarters 
By Associated Press, 12/1/2003 16:43 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) A U.N. security guard was found dead inside U.N.
headquarters at midday on Monday with a gunshot wound to the head, the
head of U.N. security said.

Michael Holton's body was found in a third floor lounge shortly before
noon. He was discovered by two officers who were sent to check on
Holton after he did not return to his duty station following a break,
said Michael McCann, the U.N. security chief.

McCann told a news conference the incident was the first of its kind
inside the United Nations buildings.

Holton, 41, was found in a lounge area where U.N. employees often take
their breaks. He was seated in one of the chairs and his gun was on
the chair next to his leg, McCann said.

McCann said that Holton was a 16-year veteran of the U.N. security
department, was married and had two children. McCann gave no further
details on the family. Holton was a U.S. citizen.


Looks like he saw something he was not supposed to see.  The UN is
incredibly corrupt.  Wonder if it was a 9mm slug from a MP-5.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704878/posts

Kofi Annan Probed Over Machine Gun-Toting Bodyguards
NewsMax.com ^ | 6/23/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 06/24/2002 12:32 AM PDT by kattracks

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating United
Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan over reports that his bodyguards
carry illegal submachine guns to protect the number one diplomat.

"Sources in the U.N. Security and Safety Service say that members of
Annan's personal protective detail have been using the German-made MP5
submachine guns since 1998," reports the National Rifle Association's
"America's 1st Freedom" Magazine.

While U.N. officials say the extraordinarily lethal firearms have been
cleared with U.S. law enforcement, a spokesman for the BATF's parent
agency, the Treasury Department, told the Washington Times earlier
this year that Annan's machine gunners have been under investigation
since February.

The State Department also has a problem with the illegal Annan
arsenal, with a spokesman telling Times that the U.N. is not a law
enforcement agency and therefore its employees are prohibited from
packing such high-powered heat.

The U.N. first approached the State Department four years ago hoping
to get clearance for the plan to arm Annan's security detail to the
teeth - but they were turned down.

But that didn't stop Kofi and Co., who reportedly went ahead and
acquired the illegal assault weapons anyway.

"Just how Annan's security detail obtained the guns is the focus of
the U.S. government probe," the NRA said.

New York City, where Annan is based, supposedly has some of the
strictest gun control laws in the country


http://www.the-matrix-has-you.org/UN-assult-rifles.html
Assault rifles for Annan guards investigated 
By Stewart Stogel
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES


     NEW YORK — The U.S. government is investigating whether the
United Nations illegally imported and issued paramilitary assault
rifles to Secretary-General Kofi Annan's security detail.
     Sources in the U.N. Security and Safety Service say that the
members of Mr. Annan's personal protective detail have been using the
German-made MP5 submachine guns since 1998, despite an apparent
failure to obtain U.S. clearance for their use.
     U.N. officials say that the use of the highly restricted firearm
has been cleared with U.S. authorities.
     But Mike Campbell, a spokesman for the Treasury Department's
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, confirmed in an interview
that an inquiry into the U.N. personnel's use of the weapon was
initiated two weeks ago.
     The dispute is made even more sensitive by the fact that Mr.
Annan himself led a U.N. effort last summer to stem the production and
sale of small arms around the world, an effort that drew criticism
from U.S. gun-ownership groups and from the Bush administration.
     "There is no single tool of conflict so widespread, so easily
available and so difficult to restrict as small arms," Mr. Annan told
a special meeting of the Security Council in July.
     The MP5, described by its German manufacturer Heckler and Koch
GmbH as a "paramilitary assault rifle" commonly used by police SWAT
squads, is just one of several varieties of assault weapons currently
in the possession of the United Nations, said one U.N. official who
spoke on the condition of anonymity.
     America's use of the MP5 is normally limited to law-enforcement
organizations, Mr. Campbell said. Importation of the submachine gun is
tightly controlled, he said.
     The United States does not consider the U.N. security service a
law-enforcement organization and thus deems it ineligible to possess
weapons such as the MP5, according to a State Department official.
     "If the United Nations had applied for permission to obtain these
guns, most likely it would have been rejected" again, said the
official, who requested anonymity.
     The State Department official said the United Nations first
approached the U.S. government for permission to purchase the MP5 in
early 1998 and was refused. Just how Mr. Annan's security detail
obtained the weapons is the focus of the U.S. government probe.
     Michael McCann, who has directed U.N. security operations since
1994, refused to comment on the issue, but U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard
denied any wrongdoing.
     Mr. Eckhard said he had checked with the security service and was
told that all the necessary licenses for the weapons carried by U.N.
personnel had been obtained.
     "I flatly reject the notion any laws have been broken," he said.
     An American citizen and a veteran of the New York Police
Department, Mr. McCann has been a frequent target of criticism by both
U.N. diplomats and staff over security at the New York site.
     On September 11, it took hours to evacuate the U.N. headquarters
after the plane attacks on the World Trade Center; employees at the
Twin Towers were evacuated in 45 minutes.
     Several staffers described the evacuation process as "mass
confusion."
     Umberto Ravalico, Mr. McCann's predecessor, rejected the use of
the MP5 guns. U.N. sources said that Mr. Ravalico felt they were "too
dangerous" for use within New York City.
     Although the United States cannot control the use of such weapons
inside the U.N. compound, U.S. laws do apply if the weapons are
carried outside.
     Documents obtained by The Washington Times indicate that U.N.
submachine guns frequently leave U.N. headquarters, accompanying Mr.
Annan on trips around the New York area and for use in target-practice
sessions for U.N. officers at a shooting range on Long Island.
     A U.N. document on training standards for security officers
appears to note the sensitivity of taking the MP5 outside the U.N.
headquarters building.
     For the twice-yearly proficiency tests required for security
officers, the officers and the weapons are transported to the range in
a vehicle provided by the U.N. security service.
     If officers travel to the range on their own, they cannot bring
their firearm with them.
     "Under no circumstances should a United Nations weapon be
transported in a private vehicle," according to a U.N. instruction
sheet titled "Qualification on the Service MP5." The passage is
highlighted in bold-face type.
     Conventions on diplomatic immunity do not apply to weapons
possession. A survey of the United Nations' five permanent Security
Council members — the United States, Britain, France, China and
Russia — found that only U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte was
assigned an armed protective detail.
     He has only a small security detachment with standard sidearms,
according to a State Department spokesman.
     There has never been an assault on a U.N. secretary-general in
the United States. While in the United States, Mr. Annan is protected
by U.N. security, the New York police force and by the State
Department's Diplomatic Security Service, depending on the
circumstances.
     An official at the Diplomatic Security Service said the U.S.
government has no way to track the movement of U.N.-issued weapons.
      "It is a matter between the U.N. and local jurisdictions," he
said.
     The official also acknowledged there was no way the Diplomatic
Security Service could independently verify that the United Nations
was in compliance with local laws whenever the weapons left the
compound. That is in marked contrast to the rules governing foreign
embassies, which are under tight restrictions on the ownership and
transportation of any firearms.
     Currently, the United Nations has more than 20 officers in the
MP5 qualification program. The majority of participants are foreign
nationals, which has raised additional concerns at the State
Department and ATF.