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Iraq-Jordan
UN sources: Special Iraq envoy Lakhdar Brahimi announced his resignation
2004-06-12
United Nations special envoy to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi announced his resignation a few days ago during a UN retreat, diplomatic sources in the world body told Haaretz on Saturday.
G'bye. Write if you find work.
Though the UN envoy had not yet filed a resignation letter, the sources said, a replacement for him was already being sought.
Sorry. I have a job.
According to the report, Brahimi had been frustrated for some weeks, feeling he had been sidelined by the United States in the process of setting up the Iraqi interim government. Approximately one month ago it seemed that Brahimi was a key figure in shaping Iraq's future. The country's leaders, as well as the Americans, were happy to hear that Secretary General Kofi Annan decided to send him to assist in the transfer of power over to the Iraqi interim government. Many understood that Brahimi's role was also to assist in making the major appointments in the new government. But the Americans and the Governing Council members close to them were not about to clear the way for the UN envoy.
Not good at taking order, huh?
Iraqi officials were later surprised at the massive pressure the Americans laid on Brahimi, and at his passive attitude toward the pressure. When the new appointments were announced, Brahimi's spokesman expressed concern. "This is not the way we imagined things," he said. The UN envoy seemed to have been completely taken aback by the way the 23-member Governing Council announced its choice of Iyad Allawi as the country's interim prime minister. A spokesman for Brahimi had said the envoy would now work with Allawi to form a government.
Posted by:Lux

#11  We kept Brahimi until we got the vote in the UN. Then he was excess baggage. What masterful maneuvering. Ahhhhhhhhhhh...See Ya!
Posted by: Remote Man   2004-06-12 11:29:17 PM  

#10  Evert V that's perfect. I don't think it takes Hari Seldon to have predicted Brahimi's disgruntlement. It was very unlikely that America was going to put a whole lot of hard power or money to make things tip in his direction. I'm sure that each Iraqi faction sounded him out as a possible vehicle to power and discarded him when it was determined that he was a figurehead.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-06-12 10:43:18 PM  

#9  "Lakhdar Brahimi announced his resignation a few days ago during a UN retreat"

From where did the U.N. retreat this time? did I miss something?

"This is not the way we imagined things,"

Bwahahahahahahahaha!
Posted by: Evert V. in NL   2004-06-12 6:41:06 PM  

#8  Looks like the wily ol' Arab was outfoxed by the simpliste Americans. In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz: Ha ha.
Posted by: someone   2004-06-12 5:58:03 PM  

#7  JAB - lol!
Posted by: B   2004-06-12 4:48:09 PM  

#6  I guess we have to give Bremer and the Administration some credit. The worst news would be that Brahimi was happy. The best is that he was used and discarded.
Posted by: JAB   2004-06-12 4:42:59 PM  

#5  Good riddance...

The U.N. Can only make things worse...

To me U.N. Involvement just increases the chances of outright genocide happening...
Posted by: sonic   2004-06-12 3:45:17 PM  

#4  According to the report, Brahimi had been frustrated for some weeks, feeling he had been sidelined by the United States in the process of setting up the Iraqi interim government.

Sorry, Brahimi, this one's too important to let the UN fuck it up again. Did you really think you were going to have any real power? Poor, deluded soul.
Posted by: Raj   2004-06-12 3:35:50 PM  

#3  
Brahimi had been frustrated for some weeks, feeling he had been sidelined by the United States in the process of setting up the Iraqi interim government
Hahahahahahaha! Good.

Glad you finally picked up on that, Cookie.

Hit the road, Jack, and don't come back. And take your like-minded let's-see-what-country-we-can-screw-up-this-week UN buddies with you.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-06-12 3:33:31 PM  

#2  Brahimi carries considerable bad baggage in his ME point of view. He should not have been assigned to a budding Muslim democracy in the first place.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/431517.html
Annan's special envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, also aroused Jewish ire recently when he said in a newspaper interview that Israeli policy is "the big poison in the region."

Doesn't Kofi Annan have any ordinary Caucasian Christian aides in the UN who could be sent to help in Iraq, who do not have personal Muslim blinders on their eyes?
Posted by: rex   2004-06-12 3:20:33 PM  

#1  Sounds like Brahimi grossy mis-judged the Iraqi's and their position on getting on with getting their country back.
Posted by: rich woods   2004-06-12 3:06:02 PM  

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