UN: Iraqi is now safe and stable....BOOOM!...
Andaras Prime
23-03-2007, 08:06
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/world/middleeast/23iraq.html?ref=middleeast
That link bugs me (http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com).
The Black Forrest
23-03-2007, 08:14
That's probably why the shrub had his "mission accomplished" sign on a carrier out and not in Iraq.
Wilgrove
23-03-2007, 08:17
Is it wrong that I'm laughing about this?
"Well Iraq is stable now"
BOOM!
Is it wrong that I'm laughing about this?
"Well Iraq is stable now"
BOOM!
I love the fact that the Iraqi pols take it all in stride.
The deafening explosion seemed to unnerve the secretary general, who like almost everyone else in the room ducked his head as windows shattered outside and flecks of plaster drifted down from the ceiling. Mr. Maliki barely shifted.
A bodyguard rushed up to Mr. Maliki and grabbed his arm in an effort to lead him to another room, but the prime minister brushed him away, saying sharply, “It’s nothing.” When the bodyguard did not relent, the prime minister turned to him and snapped, “Go!”
Mr. Maliki made one more statement — about plans for a regional conference in April — then turned to Mr. Ban and asked quietly, “That is enough?”
“Yes,” Mr. Ban replied, and the two men disappeared through a door into another part of the house.
Iraqi leaders played down the incident. Asked later what the reaction had been among the officials gathered elsewhere in the house, Ahmad Chalabi, the Shiite politician and former exile, shrugged and said, “Nothing.”
Wilgrove
23-03-2007, 08:44
I love the fact that the Iraqi pols take it all in stride.
That's because they're used to it.
Video here (http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world/20070322-ban-ki-moon.html).
New Burmesia
23-03-2007, 10:14
*Sigh* If only someone had brought that up on QT last night. I would love to see John Bolton swallow that and regurgitate it into Bushevik BS.
UN Protectorates
23-03-2007, 12:16
Yes, I was going to post a topic about this yesterday, when I read about it at the UN News page.
It was quite funny actually, I was expecting this when I also saw on Yahoo news the very same day that Mr Ban was to visit Baghdad. It makes me wonder what would have happened had something happened to Maliki and Ban.
Well Ban should be out of Iraq by now, so no worries.
UN Protectorates
23-03-2007, 12:18
Yes, I was going to post a topic about this yesterday, when I read about it at the UN News page.
It was quite funny actually, I was expecting this when I also saw on Yahoo news the very same day that Mr Ban was to visit Baghdad. It makes me wonder what would have happened had something happened to Maliki and Ban.
Well Ban should be out of Iraq by now, so no worries.
The rest of Ban's Middle East tour was also included in the UN News centre article:
During his Middle East trip, Mr. Ban is scheduled to visit Egypt, the occupied Palestinian territory, Israel and Jordan, and attend the Arab League Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 28 March, before going on to Lebanon. He is due back at UN Headquarters in New York on 2 April.
UN spokesperson Michele Montas told journalists earlier this week that his main priorities for the trip would be the Middle East Peace process, stability in Lebanon, the Darfur and the UN role within the Iraq Compact.
Congo--Kinshasa
23-03-2007, 18:15
Oh, the irony. :p