(Fox News) Anne Bayefsky - The announcement of the UN panel does nothing to stop the concurrent UN Human Rights Council's investigation of exactly the same flotilla incident. In June the Council launched an allegedly "independent international fact-finding mission" with a mandate to report on what it had already decided was Israel's "outrageous attack." U.S. UN Ambassador Susan Rice claimed "that the Panel['s]...work will be the primary method for the international community to review the incident, obviating the need for any overlapping international inquiries." The secretary-general's announcement says nothing of the kind and the secretary has no power to stop the Council from proceeding.
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