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The U.N. Insignia Emerges as a Global Target for Al-Qaeda Attacks
An interesting article in the Washington Post, that no one will ever see 'cos it was published on page A14 on Christmas Day. Of note is the article's analysis, because it gets Al-Q's motivations nearly 100% wrong. Also of note is the UN's response to getting blown up:
..."The United Nations is nothing but a tool of crime," bin Laden said in a 2001 statement. "We are being massacred every day while the United Nations continues to sit idly by."

U.N. officials say the latest bloodshed underscores the need to shake that perception. "We must do even better in explaining to the public and the media the role of the United Nations, wherever we operate," U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told U.N. staff members at a memorial for their lost colleagues in New York, after a trip to Algiers. "We must make clear we are not there to represent the interests of any one group of nations over another. We must make clear that we are there to clear mines, build schools, run clinics, advance the rule of law, help protect the environment and help protect human rights."

Ban has pledged to review U.N. security procedures to ensure the safety of tens of thousands of workers in the field. But some U.N. officials say there is only so much the agency can do. "Do you go to the U.S. fortress model?" asked one senior U.N. official, referring to Washington's effort to reinforce its overseas embassies after al-Qaeda bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. "I doubt the U.N. could ever do that."
Posted by: Seafarious 2007-12-26
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=215481