Britain Dismisses Annan’s Warning
Charles Johnson
Sat Nov 6, 2004 at 12:52 pm PST • Views: 168
At what point does it become clear to all that the UN and Kofi Annan are objectively working on the side of the mujahideen in Iraq? Britain backs assault on Fallujah, dismisses UN warnings.
Home Secretary David Blunkett told the BBC on Saturday that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was “entirely wrong” for his reported opposition to the assault on Fallujah, which lies at the heart of the Sunni Muslim insurgency. …
Annan reportedly wrote to leaders in Britain, the United States and Iraq’s interim government warning a strike on Fallujah risked disrupting January’s elections.
Blunkett said the US-led coalition had to listen to Annan’s concerns but added: “I think on this occasion he is entirely wrong.
”If the elections are to take place, if they are to be adjudged to be democratic and if there is to be security and stability and a democratic Iraq in the future, then the terrorists have to be rooted out, both for the Iraqis and for the rest of us,“ he said.
”If they got their hands on Iraq, they would do what the Taliban did in Afghanistan; they would act as the hosts for the encampments, for the training, for the launch point for those who would kill anybody in our country,” he said.
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