Written by: Beck

Question: What's worse than United Nations "Peace Keepers" from Jordan soliciting 12 year old boys in East Timor for sexual favors?

Answer: When the Jordanian peace keepers pull their weapons on Australian peace keepers for ratting them out.

Sidenote: I mean, I'm no Islamic scholar, but--and I'm assuming here that the Jordanian military doesn't contain a whole lot of non-Muslims, forgive me if that's an unfair stereotype (hint: it's not)--doesn't the Quran frown on grown men diddling little boys?

Considering the amount of respect I have for the Australian military and the lack of respect I have for the militaries of nearly every other nation involved in United Nations "peace keeping" missions, I'm not surprised it was they who exposed this sordid bit of corrupt work. Some details:

AUSTRALIAN soldiers drew arms to protect themselves from Jordanian peacekeepers after a Digger [ed: not really sure what a Digger is. It would appear to be Australian slang for a soldier. But that's really just a guess] blew the whistle on other Jordanian soldiers' sexual abuse of East Timorese boys.

Corporal Andrew Wratten had to be evacuated and Australian commandos sent to protect Diggers in Oecussi, an East Timorese province in Indonesian West Timor, after he told the UN of the pedophilia that occurred in May 2001.

The Australians drew their Steyr assault rifles after being confronted by Jordanians armed with M-16s, in an escalation of verbal threats triggered by the later betrayal of Corporal Wratten by a Jordanian officer in the Dili headquarters of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor.

Corporal Wratten, who was working at a fuel dump in the enclave, was told by a group of children that Jordanian soldiers had offered food and money in exchange for oral sex and intercourse.

The allegations involved East Timorese minors, all boys, the youngest of them just 12 years old.

A further, interesting detail from the article is that the abuse at issue evidently occurred back in 2001. At the time, the UN held a secret investigation, dismissed two Jordanian peacekeepers, and filed a secret report. Only now, with so much attention on United Nations suckitude, has the information come to light.

And since I haven't mentioned it in a while: every year the United States pays $7 billion of tax payer money--i.e. your money--to the United Nations. Your tax dollars at work.

(Hat tip: Instapundit)