Kofi Annan Probed Over Machine Gun-Toting Bodyguards

NewsMax.com ^ | 6/23/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[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.

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[Prodigal Son]

Hmmmm...

[CaptSkip]

People that want to destroy the US carry and transport LOTS of STUFF in the DIPLOMATIC POUCH. Maybe history and the Japanese just before P.H., Nah....that's just History...

Sounds like the INS and US Diplomatic Service...or whatever...are using the same "play book".

Is it hard to pull an MP-5 from a Diplomatic Pouch?

BTW, good morning KATT, and thanks for the post. Major BUMP.

[kattracks]

Good Morning, and you're welcome : )

[piasa]

Get a load of this

[blam]

Gun control is just for you and me, not Them

[Squantos]

I guess this was just one more lie from the UN elite to the swallowing sheeple. We need guns but we'll tie yours in a knot..........Bastards !

Stay Safe & cache one , carry two.......

[brat]

LOL Like all thugs, he's well protected while calling for disarming the rest of us!

[piasa]

It is nice to see the BATF doing something right for a change...like investigating Kofi...

With a little luck maybe they'll check out Reno's gun safe.

[piasa]

FYI

[DJ_JeremyX]

I hate it when the media does this in headlines. There is a huge difference between a "machine gun" and a "submachine gun". Like a difference between a truck and a golf cart.

A submachine gun is really nothing more than a large pistol. They fire pistol ammo. They're just bigger than pistols.

[TiaS]

Maybe they're packin' heat because they feel the hate -- like some generated at this website.

[from occupied ga]

...like investigating Kofi...

They may "investigate," but I doubt that they will go so far as to actually arrest anyone who works for the UN. After all it's not the local serfs we're talking about here. How long do you think a local NY resident would be allowed to walk around unmolested by the gun gestapo if they though he had a MP5?

[MrNeutron1962]

"A submachine gun is really nothing more than a large pistol. They fire pistol ammo. They're just bigger than pistols."

Yes, they are just large, fully automatic pistols, you know, the most famous of all, the Thompson Sub-Machine gun, some pistol.

[the crow]

Certainly must be nice to be above the law. Whatta dirtbag.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

[It'salmosttolate]

so what else is new?

[MeekOneGOP]

[Teacher317]

Rules for thee, but not for me!

[Travis McGee]

"VISUALIZE WORLD POLICE"

Just getting us used to playing Masters and Peasants.

[harpseal]

Stay Safe & cache one , carry two.......

Cache one for a friend it may save your butt at least it may provide some one with a firearm watching your backside.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Squantos]

Starting to seem more like "Whirled Peas" these days Travis. Your folks near that fire in AZ ?

Stay Safe !

[harpseal]

Does this mean the BATF and HRT will surround the UN Compound (it is even called a compund) and brurn it to the ground. How about of we say pretty please to our government? The simple fact that they know Ol' Koffi's bodyguards are so armed in defiance of US law means they should alrteady have been raided and be cooling their heals behind bars and/or deported. Likewise everyone else involved in this conspiracy to break the laws of the USA. There is no such right for the UN to maintain a security force to protect the person of the Secretary General nor has there been a security council resolution authorizing such an international protective force. Koffi is in violation of his own charter. Take him down now.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - yorktown

[Squantos]

Well now I didn't say how "many" places to cache ......:o)

Stay Safe !

[Squantos]

I think the UPS guy still has to deliver grenade's before the "BatFag's" and "HuRT em all" circus starts........

Stay Safe !

[ottersnot]

lmao.
Annan has pulled a Rosie.
Rosie is another hypo-rat with gun toting bodyguards.
Why she thinks she needs protected.........

[harpseal]

Somehow I do not think that even if Koffi's boys had tanks and artillery they would be raided after all the BATFAGS do not really wish to risk harming non-citizens.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - yorktown

[wardaddy]

Typical hypocrite. He wants big guns to protect him while he disarms the world.

[wardaddy]

Very good....

[wardaddy]

Howdy stranger!.....I remember asking you what BTTT and ROTFLMAO meant when I first joined up in 2000.

Regards

[Travis McGee]

The law is only applied against Peasants, not Masters. Kofi is a High Master.

[Travis McGee]

Well there are many right wing Christian fanatics who resent that the UN is busy saving the world and disarming the masses, so Kofi's guards needs to be well armed.

[Vigilantcitizen]

What's bad for the master is some of us peasants remember the small arms portion of gunnery school very well.

[Squantos]

What's bad for the master is some of us peasants don't need a "firearm" at all to stop sedition and socialist's if it comes to such......... :o)

Stay Safe !

[Joe Brower]

[Travis McGee]

That is a very big worry for the Masters.

(+)

[Vigilantcitizen]

Bump!

[Joe Brower]

[CaptRon]

Right. FR. Most hateful site on the 'net /sarcasm.

Why don't you check out DU. It's all sweetness and light, or did you already come from there.

[Dick Bachert]

Gee, I wonder if Kofi will have some of those weapons in the yard sale?

[RichInOC]

Hope they intend to file down the front sights first.

[henbane]

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.

Kofi figures: "Why should I worry about the American laws? It's just a matter of time before that capitalist legal system is totally irrelevant--replaced by the World Court and a pile of law-books written by and for my suffering Third World countries."

[LibTeeth]

Re:A submachine gun is really nothing more than a large pistol.

Ditto that. The MP-5 is a good subgun, mainly because its closed breech mode of fire doesn't disturb the sight picture on semi-auto shots. But as the police/SWAT units found out several years back during the North Hollywood robbery, even pistol ammo out of a longer SMG is pretty anemic compared to a centerfire rifle round. Good thing there were some civilain AR-15s nearby to be appropriated.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

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.TERRORIST

What do they expect hes the [Puke] hes a number one...../sarcasm left on because he deserves it ..../ I was hoping this would have said he was probed WITH a submachine gun but alas another dream shattered

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

bump

[The KG9 Kid]

Well of course Kofi Annan needs mercenaries with machineguns following him around.

He's the Bonny Prince of Africa, you know!

[in the Arena]

What a dope...

"The proliferation of small arms, and munitions and explosives has also aggravated the violence associated with terrorism and organized crime. Even in societies not beset by civil war, the easy availability of small arms has in many cases contributed to violence and political instability. These, in turn, have damaged development prospects and imperiled human security in every way." --Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General