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| UN reports US Marines caught cutting fence between Iraq and Kuwait |
| 2003-03-06 |
| UN peacekeepers recently spotted armed US Marines cutting a fence between Kuwait and Iraq, an act reported to the Security Council Thursday as a possible violation of international law. well the UN doesn't seem too worried about it on the US-Mexico border, now, do they? UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said peacekeepers monitoring a demilitarized zone set up after the 1991 Gulf War reported "numerous violations," since March 4 "by personnel in civilian clothes in 4x4 vehicles, at least some of whom were armed and identified themselves as US Marines." In Arabic, English or Urdu? According to Eckhard, peacekeepers observed three breaches that had been cut in an electric fence that Kuwait erected after Iraqi troops were forced out of the country by a US-led coalition in 1991. So it was a Kuwaiti fence? Did they complain? Eckhard said the UN team raised the recent violations with the Kuwaiti government and the UN peacekeeping department then notified the Security Council. He said the breach may violate the Security Council resolution that set up the zone. Wow, someone is violating UNSC resolutions by cutting Kuwaiti fences? will the belligerance never end? Did the UN guys ever turn around to see what was going on behind them in Iraq? "No, we were only charged with monitoring the US forces — they pose a greater danger to world peace, don'tcha know?" The United States has amassed more than 300,000 troops in the region in preparation for another possible war with Iraq Actually it's not "another possible war" - it's finishing the one the Iraqis lost/violated the truce on/Will lose again . In the meantime, it is pushing council members to adopt a new resolution that would authorize military force, as it did in 1991. Incorrect again Associated Press, the new resolution would only acknowledge that the Iraqis aren't disarming - the previous 18 resos authorized whacking them |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 Always cheat. Always win. |
| Posted by: Pete Stanley 2003-03-07 00:19:48 |
| #4 Who gives a hoot what the UN has to say? Whats it going to do, write an angry letter to the NY Times? |
| Posted by: TJ Jackson 2003-03-06 23:17:55 |
| #3 It is always easier to beg forgivness than it is to get permission. |
| Posted by: John 2003-03-06 21:49:45 |
| #2 If the UN peacekeepers are upset over this, they'll positively have heart-attacks when we drive whole freaking divisions over that fence. |
| Posted by: Patrick Phillips 2003-03-06 20:02:10 |
| #1 This is all going to be moot in a week or too. Go ahead, UNise, go tell Kofi all about it and we will send a message of regret and repentence when we get a chance. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-03-06 19:25:01 |