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| Brahimiâs checkered background |
| 2004-04-23 |
| EFL Lakhdar Brahimi is the United Nations official that President Bush has now put in charge of establishing a new Iraqi government that will take over from America on July 1. But back in October of 1989, Mr.Brahimi was working for the Arab League, in Beirut. He had the unenviable task of persuading the Lebanese prime minister, Michel Aoun, to accept what would become the Syrian occupation of his country that persists to this day. Mr. Brahimi was at the time the Arab Leagueâs envoy in the Lebanese civil war and an author of an agreement known as the Taif Accord that encouraged Syriaâs enforcement of peace in Lebanon. Mr. Brahimi, 70, now works for the United Nations, but his remarks this week sounded as though they could have come straight from the Arab Leagueâs headquarters in Cairo. On Wednesday he told the radio station France Inter, âThere is no doubt that the great poison in the region is this Israeli policy of domination and the suffering imposed on the Palestinians, as well as the perception by the body of the population in the region, and beyond, of the injustice of this policy and the equally unjust support of the United States for this policy.â Nice guy. More at the link. |
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