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UN in Post-War Iraq UN wooed by Coalition - by Sophia Barkat In an effort to rekindle the love between permanent members of the UN Security Council the Coalition led by US and UK now want the UN to be involved in post-war Iraq. Clearly, the Mafia is understaffed right now. Here's the link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&e=10&u=/nm/ 20030408/wl_nm/iraq_opposition_dc_1 UN Lifts Sanctions on Iraq On May 20th, 2003 we had heard it was highly possible that the UN would agree to the US requests to lift the sanctions on Iraq, which included restricting Oil production and exports. Since the US plans to increase Iraq's potential to export oil, these sanctions were seen as a diplomatic obstacle by the US. It is reported that all major opponents in the United Nations of the US-led war on Iraq -- France, Germany and Russia -- have agreed to this. Here's the news: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030521/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ un_iraq&cid=540&ncid=716 Soon after Iraqi Oil will be used "legitimately" for reconstruction of Iraq if the UN caves. UN bombed in Iraq -- a turning point? by Sophia Barkat August 19th 2003. Salim Lone, member of the UN in Iraq, tells CNN from the UN scene in Iraq, that whoever has bombed the UN facility today knows that the UN was there to help the Iraqis make a transition to a sovereign nation, leading to the end of the Occupation. He also said that the UN compound was not heavily guarded. Seems to me that the UN was a sitting duck for anyone who wanted to attack it. # Why would Iraqis attack the UN? The UN has had such a bad relationship with the Iraqis that any motivation of Iraqis to attack the UN is explainable. The 12-yr UN sanctions on Iraq "FOOD and OIL PROGRAM" have been covered in our earlier articles on the two-faced nature of the UN. See under "United Nations " Discussions at Juryfury.com. The UN may try to forget the past and may have won some hearts back by opposing Bush Jr.'s war, but the fact remains people in Iraq do not trust any UN organization. While UNICEF was lobbying for more aid to Iraq during the sanctions, the UN Security Council and the US had enforced a trade-embargo, limiting trade to medicine and food, and stealing Iraqi oil at 60 cents/barrel. In 1990s, while the American Friends Society (Quakers) and other activists for humanitarian causes were starving outside of many City Halls in America in protest of US/UN policy in Iraq, the US Committee for UNICEF could not decide whether to join in. The UN may be a diverse organization but the financial pocket is still in the West. Thus the UN will not be seen in Iraqi eyes as anything but a broker for the industrial countries trying to get into the Post-Saddam Oil market. The UN is thus a probable target for anyone in Iraq tired of the US-led Coalition. While US troops are heavily armed the UN compound, as Salim Lone exposed, was not at all secure. # Why not secure the compound? One wonders how the US managed to fail to protect UN interests or for that matter how the Brits, and others in the Coalition did. Fred Eckhard, UN spokesperson speaking at a news conference, just said that the Coalition was responsible for securing the compound. He also said the matter would be investigated by an international commission. It's clear though, that the low visibility of Coalition troops around the UN has to be the reason why the bomber with the truck got through. And the US may not have had had not interest in securing the UN compound in Iraq. Perhaps the UN presence in Iraq symbolizes an attempt to liberate Iraqis from the Coalition, to give away oil-contracts to countries not in the US-led Coalition. As many in the UN have stressed on CNN today, saying that the UN was there to help the Iraqis make a transition from an occupied nation to a free one, one wonders if the Coalition had an interest in seeing the UN leave Iraq, which has only been pushing on independent commissions to oversee everything. # What now? Will the UN leave thereby giving all power to the US-led Coalition? The UN has a choice. They can start to take their own security in their own hands instead of relying on US Coalition forces. Or they can pack up and leave. Trying to hold the Coalition responsible clearly won't work. The Coalition is still illegal, even if the Security Council backs off. The US, thanks to Bush Jr., is outside of the International Criminal Court. The UN can investigate the bombing and identify the persons responsible, but what if they find people they cannot prosecute? On the other hand, the UN Peacekeepers are nothing without the US and UK. A long-standing relationship may be at stake if the UN at some point does not bow out. The UN may thus, decide to pull out of Iraq until the situation has been brought under control by the US led Coalition -- which if you've been following the hunt for Osama and Saddam, will be never. Or the UN can beg the US to watch it's back while it goes around trying to lobby Iraq's away from being an occupied nation. NOTE: On August 20th 2003, after the death of prominent members of the UN in Iraq, the UN has decided to continue it's humanitarian efforts in Iraq with renewed force. The UN compound is now not continuing humanitarian work but focused on crime-scene investigation. |
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