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"Jim F." |
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01 Oct 2003 11:51:22 AM |
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UN leaves less than 50 foreign staff in Iraq |
I remember Tilly posting back in August that the bombing
of the UN headquarters in Baghdad was a counterproductive
act. At that time she wrote:
"The only effect that the UN bombing and the Jerusalem bombing has had is to
harden attitudes towards Muslim terrorists. Kofi Annan has learnt first hand
what the israelis have to suffer regularly and he isn't happy about it.
The perpetrators shot themselves in the foot.Muslims should be furious with
the groups that carried out these acts.."
http://tinyurl.com/pc1m
Of course the results of the bombing have proven to
be somewhat different from what Tilly anticipate
as indicated in the following story from Reuters.
Jim F.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3526713
Reuters September 29, 2003
UN leaves less than 50 foreign staff in Iraq
United Nations - The United Nations cut international staff in Iraq
over the weekend to less than 50 people from 86 last week and over 600
before the Aug. 19 bombing of its headquarters in Baghdad, U.N.
officials said on Monday.
U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard gave the new numbers, without disclosing
an exact figure for security reasons. Other U.N. officials said
foreign staff in Baghdad alone had been cut to less than 25 people.
The pullout of staff is having an impact on the U.N.-run oil-for-food
program, which is to be shut down on Nov. 21, particularly in the
north where the United Nations ran the program alone and now only has
about two dozen foreign staff left in that region.
Benon Sevan, the undersecretary in charge of the program, said he told
the U.N. Security Council a minimum of 115 international staff was
needed in the north alone. He said his office would attempt to cope in
transferring files to the U.S.-run occupation authorities as asked.
Under the U.N. oil-for-food program, Iraq was allowed to sell oil to
buy a host of civilian supplies under U.N. control. Oil money and
contracts with suppliers remain in the program.
In Baghdad, Kevin Kennedy, a senior U.N. coordinator, insisted there
was enough personnel to cope with humanitarian programs, including
more than 4,000 Iraqis working with the United Nations.
"It's not just international staff, it's international staff, national
staff, Iraqi ministries, NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), and a
whole range of other people to do this work," Kennedy said.
But no political staff has been sent into Iraq since the Aug. 19
bombing that killed senior staff, including the head of mission,
Brazilian Sergio Vieira de Mello.
A second suicide attack at the U.N. compound last Monday killed an
Iraqi security guard.
The decision to withdraw staff was a setback to President Bush's
efforts to expand the political role of the United Nations in managing
Iraq's transition to sovereignty. Many nations have refused to be part
of the occupation.
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| User: "Adam Helberg" |
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| Title: Re: UN leaves less than 50 foreign staff in Iraq |
01 Oct 2003 04:44:18 PM |
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"Jim F." <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:blf2rn$bh1ps$1@ID-127596.news.uni-berlin.de...
I remember Tilly posting back in August that the bombing
of the UN headquarters in Baghdad was a counterproductive
act. At that time she wrote:
"The only effect that the UN bombing and the Jerusalem bombing has had is to
harden attitudes towards Muslim terrorists. Kofi Annan has learnt first hand
what the israelis have to suffer regularly and he isn't happy about it.
The perpetrators shot themselves in the foot.Muslims should be furious with
the groups that carried out these acts.."
http://tinyurl.com/pc1m
Of course the results of the bombing have proven to
be somewhat different from what Tilly anticipate
as indicated in the following story from Reuters.
Jim F.
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Tilly is one of the more naive pro-Israel posters.
Adam
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| User: "Jim F." |
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| Title: Re: UN leaves less than 50 foreign staff in Iraq |
04 Oct 2003 10:31:41 AM |
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"Adam Helberg" <sendspamhere@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Jim F." <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:blf2rn$bh1ps$1@ID-127596.news.uni-berlin.de...
I remember Tilly posting back in August that the bombing
of the UN headquarters in Baghdad was a counterproductive
act. At that time she wrote:
"The only effect that the UN bombing and the Jerusalem bombing has had
is to
harden attitudes towards Muslim terrorists. Kofi Annan has learnt first
hand
what the israelis have to suffer regularly and he isn't happy about it.
The perpetrators shot themselves in the foot.Muslims should be furious
with
the groups that carried out these acts.."
http://tinyurl.com/pc1m
Of course the results of the bombing have proven to
be somewhat different from what Tilly anticipate
as indicated in the following story from Reuters.
Jim F.
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Tilly is one of the more naive pro-Israel posters.
At that time, I predicted, contrary to Tilly, that the
bombing would place the UN in a very difficult
situation in Iraq. Either they would stay there but
operate under the explicit protection of the US and
UK forces in Iraq, or they would pull out. The
first option, I argued, would be very unpalatable
to the UN because they wished to portray themselves
to the Iraqis as an honest broker between the occupation
forces and the Iraqis, that was not explicitly allied to
either side. Hence, despite Kofi's attempts
at the time to present a brave face about standing up
to terrorism, he and the UN have apparently opted
for the second option and have been quietly pulling
out of Iraq, just as I had expected they would.
In other words, the people who bombed the UN
headquarters have managed to elicit the desired
results (from their perspective).
Hence, not surprisingly we have since seen more
actions of that kind, and can expect to see even
more such attacks in the future, since they have been proving
to be successful (witness GWB's declining poll
numbers for instance).
Jim F.
Adam
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