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.

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[It'salmosttolate]

so what else is new?

[MeekOneGOP]

[Teacher317]

Rules for thee, but not for me!