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2004-06-12 Iraq-Jordan
UN sources: Special Iraq envoy Lakhdar Brahimi announced his resignation
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Posted by Lux 2004-06-12 14:14|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#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||   2004-06-12 3:06:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-06-12 3:20:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-06-12 3:33:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com]  2004-06-12 3:35:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://sonicpuke.blogspot.com/]  2004-06-12 3:45:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-06-12 4:42:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2004-06-12 5:58:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=935389&t=2]  2004-06-12 6:41:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-06-12 10:43:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-06-12 11:29:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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