The United Nations confirmed today that all of its international staff have left Baghdad.
"As we announced last week, the international staff that had been in Baghdad have been temporarily relocated, and will hold talks in Cyprus, so that the United Nations can thoroughly reconsider its operations in Iraq and the security arrangements that it will need to work there," a UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said at a press briefing.
"I can now confirm that, as of today, all UN international staff have left Baghdad."
The UN said on 30 October that it was moving its international staff in Baghdad to Cyprus for security discussions with a team from its New York headquarters. The announcement came after an independent report found - in the wake of the 19 August terrorist bombing in Baghdad that killed 22 people - security problems and lax procedures in UN offices in the Iraqi capital.
The temporary relocation of the staff from Baghdad does not affect UN international staff working elsewhere in Iraq, mainly in the northern provinces. Some 4,000 Iraqi staff continue their work throughout the country.
UN News Centre: http://www.un.org/news
Please also see:
U.N. Failed the Iraqi People, by Denis Halliday;
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1024&blz=1
Still Waiting for the Euphoria
A Poll Among Iraqis Indicates the Bush Team Was Wrong in Foreseeing a Warm Welcome for the Occupiers, by John Zogby;
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1027-10.htm
Pentagon activates more troops;
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031106-080412-1530r.htm
Death Be Not Loud, Maureen Dowd:
Wrong priorities -- As the US casualty count clims past 7,000 in Iraq, President George Bush carefuflly counts nearly $100 million in campaign contribution cash and ignores the sacrifice of our Nation's soldiers ...
AND
Bush Hides War Dead; Body Bags now Called 'Transfer Tubes', Tim Harper - Summary: As the saying goes, if you can't convince them, confuse them. With more lies told each day by President George Bush, here is yet another one. The US Department of Defense changed the name from "Body Bag" to "Transfer Tube" to describe how the bodies of our young warriors are returned home in the dark of night, with no official count of their growing numbers, and no solemn public ceremony to honor their proud service ...
BOTH AT;
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/default.asp
Saddam offered 'astonishing' deal to US days before war;
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_836022.html
Blair could face international court over war conduct;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1079225,00.html
"As we announced last week, the international staff that had been in Baghdad have been temporarily relocated, and will hold talks in Cyprus, so that the United Nations can thoroughly reconsider its operations in Iraq and the security arrangements that it will need to work there," a UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said at a press briefing.
"I can now confirm that, as of today, all UN international staff have left Baghdad."
The UN said on 30 October that it was moving its international staff in Baghdad to Cyprus for security discussions with a team from its New York headquarters. The announcement came after an independent report found - in the wake of the 19 August terrorist bombing in Baghdad that killed 22 people - security problems and lax procedures in UN offices in the Iraqi capital.
The temporary relocation of the staff from Baghdad does not affect UN international staff working elsewhere in Iraq, mainly in the northern provinces. Some 4,000 Iraqi staff continue their work throughout the country.
UN News Centre: http://www.un.org/news
Please also see:
U.N. Failed the Iraqi People, by Denis Halliday;
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1024&blz=1
Still Waiting for the Euphoria
A Poll Among Iraqis Indicates the Bush Team Was Wrong in Foreseeing a Warm Welcome for the Occupiers, by John Zogby;
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1027-10.htm
Pentagon activates more troops;
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031106-080412-1530r.htm
Death Be Not Loud, Maureen Dowd:
Wrong priorities -- As the US casualty count clims past 7,000 in Iraq, President George Bush carefuflly counts nearly $100 million in campaign contribution cash and ignores the sacrifice of our Nation's soldiers ...
AND
Bush Hides War Dead; Body Bags now Called 'Transfer Tubes', Tim Harper - Summary: As the saying goes, if you can't convince them, confuse them. With more lies told each day by President George Bush, here is yet another one. The US Department of Defense changed the name from "Body Bag" to "Transfer Tube" to describe how the bodies of our young warriors are returned home in the dark of night, with no official count of their growing numbers, and no solemn public ceremony to honor their proud service ...
BOTH AT;
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/default.asp
Saddam offered 'astonishing' deal to US days before war;
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_836022.html
Blair could face international court over war conduct;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1079225,00.html