Trojan Horse in America
Annan has also been generous in his praise for Fidel Castro's Cuba, a grim Communist dictatorship that is on the State Department's roster of terrorist-sponsoring governments. During an April 2000 summit in Havana, Annan insisted that Castro's regime has "set an example we can all learn from."
Indeed, Castro's regime typifies many of the governments represented in the UN General Assembly. Cuba, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Syria, Libya, Namibia, Angola, Sudan, Vietnam, Cambodia - these dictatorships and scores of others were brought to power through terrorism and support the international terrorist network whose murderous handiwork was seen in the Black Tuesday attack.
In early 2001, the U.S. received a slap in the face when it was voted off the UN's Human Rights Commission. The Commission's membership includes such supposed champions of individual rights as Lybia, Sudan and Communist China. On October 8, 2001, nearly one month after the attack upon the World Trace Center and the Pentagon, the General Assembly elected Syria - a notorious terrorist state - to a seat on the Security Council, which is supervising the "war on terrorism." This is typical of the UN's institutional approach to "solving" the problem of international terrorism.
As the horrible events of September 11th unfolded before our eyes, one television anchorman expressed relief that the UN Headquarters Building had been spared. That comment provoked Canadian journalist Mark Steyn to remark: "Why would the guys who took out the World Trade Center and Pentagon want to target the UN? The UN is dominated by their apologists...."
For decades, the UN has acted as a platform for anti-American rhetoric and a staging base for terrorism, espionage, and subversion by our foreign enemies. Far from providing "legitimacy" for global anti-terrorism efforts, the UN has been the international terrorist network's Trojan horse within our borders.
