Iraqi Resistance, World Leaders Condemn Attack On U.N. HQ

BAGHDAD, August 19 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The Islamic resistance in Iraq on Tuesday, August 19, condemned the bombing attack that rocked the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, branding it as a "criminal" act, while a barrage of condemnations were heaped from all over the world on the deadliest attack since U.S.-led occupation troops rolled into Baghdad nearly four and half months ago.

In a statement aired by Al-Jazeera TV channel, the group exonerated all Iraqi resistance factions from attacks on the U.N. office, the Jordanian embassy and strategic sites in the occupied country, including oil pipelines.

It asserted that Tuesday’s attack was meant to scare off the world organization to quit Iraq and leave the country to the U.S.-led occupation forces.

The statement also underlined that the above mentioned attacks were plotted with the aim of discrediting the Iraqi resistance.

The deadly attack on the U.N. HQ, which killed 17 people including U.N. top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, also drew fire "in the strongest possible terms" from the four corners of the world, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"The loss of Sergio Vieira de Mello is a bitter blow for the United Nations, and for me personally," U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a statement authorized from Finland where he was cutting short his holiday and preparing to return to New York.

"I can think of no one we could less afford to spare, or who will be more acutely missed throughout the U.N. system than Sergio," he said, describing the Brazilian diplomat as an "outstanding servant of humanity."

De Mello, 55, had already served with honor in Kosovo, East Timor and Rwanda, before he was temporarily moved from his role as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to become Annan’s special representative in Iraq in June.

"He was working day and night to help the Iraqi people regain control of their own destiny and build a future of peace, justice and full independence," Annan said.

"Those who killed him have committed a crime, not only against the United Nations but against Iraq itself," he added.

"Let us strive to be worthy of him, and to complete the work that he began, so that his death will not have been in vain."

At the U.N. headquarters in New York, the flags of all 191 member nations were taken down, leaving only the official U.N. flag flying at half mast.

The world body had earlier said the suspected "suicide" bombing on its Baghdad offices would not "break the will" of the international community to help the people of Iraq.

"Members of the council were shocked to hear of the terrorist, criminal attack," the president of the United Nations Security Council as saying in a statement.

"Such terrorist incidents cannot break the will of the international community to further intensify its efforts to help the people of Iraq."

In Geneva, the acting U.N. high commissioner for human rights Bertrand Ramcharan said the world body was "deeply shocked and outraged" by the attack.

"Such a despicable act directed at people whose only aim is to assist the people of Iraq recover from war and years of oppression is to be condemned by the whole international community."

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Not Intimidated

U.S. President George W. Bush, for his part, vowed that the "terrorists" behind the devastating car bombing would not shake U.S. resolve.

"The civilized world will not be intimidated, and these killers will not determine the future of Iraq," he said in a hastily arranged public appearance, arguing that "Iraq is on an irreversible course towards self-government and peace."

Speaking from his Texas ranch, Bush said he had instructed Iraq's U.S. administrator Paul Bremer by telephone to provide "all possible assistance to the rescue and recovery effort" at the smoldering U.N. building.

He recalled talking to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan "about the personal loss the U.N. has suffered, about the assistance my country has offered, and about the vital work in Iraq that continues."

Meanwhile, the rotating president of the U.S.-handpicked Iraq's interim Governing Council, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, also denounced the attack.

"These acts show that the saboteurs target human beings," he told a press conference in Bahrain on the latest stop of a multi-leg Gulf tour.

Barbaric

France also condemned the deadly bombing, reiterating its "full support for the actions taken by the United Nations in Iraq, at the side of the Iraqi people and in the service of peace and reconstruction," according to a statement from the foreign ministry.

It added that Paris "in particular hailed the action and courage of the special representative of the (U.N.) secretary general, Sergio Vieira de Mello, who has been struck by this terrible attack."

Russia, which was one of the most vocal opponents of the U.S.-led war, branded as a "barbaric act" the attack, arguing it aimed at undermining the peace process in Iraq.

"This is an unjustified barbaric act aimed at undermining an already difficult stabilization process," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"What prompts special indignation is that the terrorists' target was the U.N. personnel, whose main goal was to help the Iraqi people overcome effects of the military conflict and to restore normal life," it said.

The Russian statement added that the blast proved the world community must become more heavily involved in helping restore order in occupied Iraq.

In Warsaw, visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi deeply regretted the bombing.

"At the same time I would like to express my recognition, my esteem towards all those, who despite a dangerous situation in Iraq, work for reconstruction," he said.

Arabs Denounce

In a related development, the Arab League denounced the deadly attack and urged Iraqi political forces to help prevent such acts from recurring.

"This is a serious, criminal terror act aimed against U.N. presence in Iraq," the pan-Arab organization said in a statement released at its Cairo headquarters.

"The Arab League urges all political forces in Iraq to unite and prevent such acts, which do not serve the interests of the Iraqi people, from taking place," the statement said.

The Arab League paid tribute to the "remarkable efforts made by Vieira de Mello to help Iraq recover its sovereignty and put an end to occupation" and said that Secretary General Amr Moussa was shocked to hear about the attack.

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-08/19/article10.shtml

****************************************
Excerpt from the NY Times "Foes Aim to Stoke Anti-U.S. Ire" By THOM SHANKER (8/19):

One military affairs expert said the attack could backfire on those who had planned it.

"The attacks on the oil pipelines and the water are in some ways stupid, because if the United States plays it right, the government can run that back against these elements pretty effectively as hurting the average person," said Richard H. Shultz, director of the international security studies program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in Medford, Mass.

He said the bombing today might also quiet some critics of American policy.

"In hitting the United Nations, it could put into a rather tough position those in the U.N. who might have opposed what the United States is doing in Iraq, and even opposed our entry into the war to begin with," Mr. Shultz said.

In other words, by attacking the United Nations the bombers may have made it easier for President Bush to convince European and Arab nations that they have a stake in a peaceful, stable Iraq.

"This will be a loud call to them to get involved," said Rachel Bronson, director of Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/international/worldspecial/20ASSE.html?pagewanted=2&hp

Yep you got it!
Another "false flag" operation at the hands of the uS and the JEWS.

I mean it couldn't possibly have been the work of those filthy ,uslim terrorists right?

They don't ever do that sort of thing.

I suspect the bombing of a busload of children a few hours later in Isreal was the work of these dark forces as well.

Perhaps, but we should continue to slaughter these dark-age cultists and bury them in pork just on general principles.

"iraqi resistance"
more like a group of iraqis who thought killing UN people was a little premature until they had the US out of there.

Are they pretending that there is a iraqi resistance with properly intact command and control structures? it lost its head and now its doing what it would naturally do

This UN bombing couldn't be yet another staged "terror" attack/provocation could it?

To those of us that know the US is pure evil, sure it is. The US has planned this attack on the UN in Iraq since 1983. They knew the neo-cons would steal the election in 2000 and that they needed the oil so they planned 9/11 (911=emergency, get it!) and that the UN would not permit such atrocities, so they needed to get the world community behind the stealing of oil, so they planned this bombing.

The Republicans will lie and tell you different, but that's just what they always do.

------------------------------------------------

Attn: KPC

OK! Now start doing more shit like this. It's entertaining and so fucking stupid that's it's funny. And it sounds just like you idiots here to believe crap like that. Now start posting your regualr stupid shit like above and let's get on with the laughs. Goddamnit, KPC!! Can't you do anything without having to have a picture drawn for you? Idiot!!

...it's nice to be loved....

I think the dutch did it, no one ever suspects the dutch. in an attempt to steal iraqi sand to increase the size of thier country, as they prepare for thier world domintation plan. I heard in dutch inner circles that they have been planing this since they were first defeated by the british in the 16th century. damn they can wait!

its so nice to talk to people with a simliar IQ as me

..."Dutch Masters".

It's so obvious!

Today, Amsterdam...tomorrow, the world!

Ever since the duch started smoking weed they have gotten a bit worse at hiding their evil conspiricies.

Scott Robert Seim
Lomita, CA

You're not loved. Nobody cares if you were to drop dead right now. But as long as you're wasting oxygen that could be used to do something valuable, like being used at an oxygen bar or filling a tire, you might as well start posting things that are more entertaining, seeing that is your purpose for coming here, is to say stupid leftist shit (pardon the redundancy) and to make us laugh. You're sleeping on the job. Again!! Get to work!!

Party at my house... Monitor knows the address.

>I think the dutch did it, no one ever suspects the dutch. in an attempt to steal iraqi sand to increase the size of thier country, as they prepare for thier world domintation plan. I heard in dutch inner circles that they have been planing this since they were first defeated by the british in the 16th century. damn they can wait! <

Actually, the Dutch are have serious doubts about the sand. Levels of up to 1000X the normal background radiation have been registered in the areas they have been asked to deploy. Don't believe they need the sand that badly.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people at Indymedia for your continued support. At the risk of sounding like I'm flattering you, you all are the single largest and most consistent voice in support of me and the Baath party in Iraq.

As we all know, I did receive 100.0% of the vote in the last election. Therefore, you are correct when you point out that the Iraqi people are not at all happy about the regime change. Keep up the kind words and prayers. Allah willing, we will return to power soon.

Love,
Saddam

I wanted to take this opportunity to say im sorry about the whole UN thing and lying about the WMD.
I know thats not an issue now, because i can always count on an americans lack of knowledge about the US constitution (thank god).
But hell, Cheney say we REALLY need that OIL!!!
And all you have to do to whip up these stupid americans is broadcast some half truths on their TV's.
and they will believe anything i say.

Bush the moron,

What the hell is going on in Iraq ?

All our socailsts friends are upset, We here at UN promised them 500,000 died Iraqs and 600,000 more
refugees. thank god we don't have to be accountable
and only the useful idiots of the "don't give a damn" left actually though these were realistic estimates. I personally didn't think anyone would be dumb enough to fall for this, but as a wise friend once told me, never under estimate the supidity of "activists" who never seem to understand there is more to "acting" then throwing a hissy fit in the street

However, since we know the Iraqi war is winding down, as Saddam is no reduced to attaking soft tagets, (peaceniks and the British) We would like to get on board as quickly as possible, to take as much credit as possible while not getting our hands dirty.

The assholes at the United Nations

Last of all this "Bush lied" crap is really getting under my skin so lets expain basic logic to you idoits one last time.

Weapons of mass destruction or WMD, includes Chemical, biological and Nuclear. Since I know you all have a really short attention span, I have number them 1, 2 and 3 for easy reference if any of you get loss along the way, good luck to all who attempt

1. Chemical weapons- these are weapons that sound scary and are effective against the defenceless clivilan populations like the Kurds, but merley a pest to troops with Chemical suits. Damn Germans selling Saddam the very mustard gas that was used against the kurds. However, as the left points out correctly for once, the US did also sell Iraq chemical weapons. Which didn't seem so bad at the time, as he would have just got them from the East Germany otherwise.
So lets recap Saddam had chemical weapons, there is no record of all stockpiles being destoryed, (other than Saddam's word, which I know is as good as gold)
Instead the left would have as believe that hiding or destorying these weapons is such a far feched notion! (30 jets were found burried in the sand the other week, by the way)

2. Biological weapons- The United States said he had these, just not in weapons grade ready to use form. Yet the retards in the left seem to think that for some reason Saddam would not destory incrimating evidence that had no benefit on the battlefield. Why??
Now the US did find the moblie weapons labs, misses the weapons. or as the mentally challenged left would have you believe, they found 24 hour emerency Ice cream trucks for the Iraqi people, (see Sadam really was a nice leader, making sure all his people had Ice cream)

3. Nuclear weapons, now Bush did not say he had nuclear weapons just that he had not given up trying to get them. Feel free to find an Iraqi scientist that believes otherwise or any condictry evidence. (as I know there is none)
The US did find a few hidden parts that could be used to restart the program once the sanctions were lifted. Thank god we didn't listen to the idiots of left when they were crying about the over infalted death toll that which UN and UNICEF claimed happened because fo the the sanctiosn and was going to happend when the US attacked Iraq. Or as we here in the right call it, BS

Feel free to dispute these arguments with factually infomation, however, I expect them to be dissmissed because I and Bush are both morons. Sad really that no one in left can out debate a moron.

So in Conclusion for you morons in the left, the only way Bush could have lied is if your "anti-war movement also was also being dishonest.

FOR THE PEOPLE TO LAZY TO READ LONG THINGS

1. Did the US sell Saddam chemical weapons, or did bush lie about him having it?

2. Why did Saddam have moblie labs if not for biological weapoons?

3. Should we have got rid of the santions and let him have nuclear weapons?

I and Bush are both morons.

Now don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure you are just ignorant and slow.
Watch much television?
I knew you did.

I and Bush are both morons.

Now don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure you are just ignorant and slow.

Ok I won't, if you can tell me how I can be slow, and yet not a moron. By the way, your not dumb, just stupid.

HAHAHA I love how you morons always fall for the bait

don't you know a conjugation from a pronoun?
I guess your brain is not very large, You're a nitwit.
See?

...no one has attempted to refute what "Do you think..." said.

Interesting.

Bend over, you cum dumpster.

More superb la-imc debate tactics.

When you don't have a point, get obscene.

KPC would be proud.

The only "point" you have is the one atop your dunce cap. Idiot.