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Iraq Accuses Kofi of Helping U.S. Invasion
Iraq's foreign minister attacked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he had helped the U.S.-led invasion in which he said some 1,250 Iraqi civilians had been killed since March 20. "We have now more than 1,250 civilians killed and 5,000 injured all over the country since the beginning of the war," Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told Reuters in an interview in Baghdad's central Palestine hotel. Sabri said Annan had facilitated the invasion by U.S. and British troops two weeks ago."The U.N. secretary-general has done nothing to stop the war, in fact the U.N. secretary-general has done something in the opposite direction," he said. "He has facilitated the invasion. He has withdrawn the UNIKOM people between Kuwait and Iraq so as to open the border for the enemy force to invade Iraq," said Sabri, referring to the withdrawal of U.N. observers between Iraq and Kuwait. Sabri said the United Nations had also interrupted Iraq's oil-for-food accord by pulling out international humanitarian staff on the eve of war. "All these moves are illegal and facilitated the aggression," he said. Kofi as a tool of U.S. agression? Who knew? Posted by: Steve 2003-04-03 |
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