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| Kofi: "Iraq War Spreads Terrorism" |
| 2005-09-06 |
| The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has turned the country into a new hub of terrorism worse than Afghanistan under the Taliban, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday. Mr. Annan also said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that he expected to face blame over the Iraqi oil-for-food program when investigators deliver a report this week. Hours before he spoke, carloads of Iraqi insurgents staged an audacious daylight assault against the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, killing two policemen before escaping. Mr. Annan told BBC World Service radio that the war was contributing to Muslim anger throughout the world. "I think there are many Muslims that are extremely unhappy today. Unhappy because they feel victimized, they feel isolated, they feel victimized in their own society, they feel victimized in the West, and they feel this profiling against them. And the Iraqi situation has not helped matters," he said. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #11 Kofi's comments completely and utterly disgust me. |
| Posted by: bgrebel9 2005-09-06 14:09 |
| #10 One word: "Nuts". |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-09-06 12:43 |
| #9 So the Iraq war spreads anger in the Muslim world, eh? Well, blowing up the World Trade Center spread some anger in the Christian world. I guess we've all got our beefs. |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2005-09-06 12:17 |
| #8 Actually, and rather effectively I might add, Iraq acts to concentrate the terrorists, rather than spread them out. And this is a good thing, giving us the opportunity to obliterate them in one country, rather than having to do it in twenty or thirty countries, and at much greater cost. By this technique, broad swathes of the planet that would have been haunted by such villains in the years to come, will instead be peaceful and prosperous realms. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-06 11:07 |
| #7 He's just pissed because no more Oil-for-Palaces caused a dent in the amount of his kickbacks... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-09-06 09:33 |
| #6 ...he expected to face blame over the Iraqi oil-for-food program when investigators deliver a report this week. How about |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-09-06 09:30 |
| #5 Mr. Annan told BBC World Service radio that the war was contributing to Muslim anger throughout the world. Naturally the Muslims can't control their fucking anger, or be bothered to realize that most of the people killed have been murdered at the orders of their own "holy" men. As for Annan -- why hasn't he been arrested yet? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-06 07:44 |
| #4 I would sayt that it is the spectacle of scams like Oil for Food and their immunity who spread terrorism. For instance, in the normally moderate and law abiding guy I am, it gets his blood boiling and making him wishing Bin Laden had smashed a plane (full of UN officials) on the UN building. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-06 06:23 |
| #3 What kind of brain disorder is it when you confuse cause with effect? |
| Posted by: jolly roger 2005-09-06 06:06 |
| #2 Iraq War Spreads Terrorism Not really, the UN does a fine job of that all by itself. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-06 04:43 |
| #1 I don't why anybody bothers interviewing Annan. He's an unelected bureacrat. He's paid to implement policy, not to make it. He shouldn't be making political statements at all, and they certainly shouldn't be reported since his views are no more significant than any random person off the streets. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-09-06 03:08 |