The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has turned the country into a new hub of terrorism worse than Afghanistan under the Taliban, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday.
Mr. Annan also said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that he expected to face blame over the Iraqi oil-for-food program when investigators deliver a report this week.
Hours before he spoke, carloads of Iraqi insurgents staged an audacious daylight assault against the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, killing two policemen before escaping.
Mr. Annan told BBC World Service radio that the war was contributing to Muslim anger throughout the world.
"I think there are many Muslims that are extremely unhappy today. Unhappy because they feel victimized, they feel isolated, they feel victimized in their own society, they feel victimized in the West, and they feel this profiling against them. And the Iraqi situation has not helped matters," he said.
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