Posted on 07/12/2006 12:18:42 PM PDT by Lazamataz
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called Wednesday for the immediate release of kidnapped Israeli soldiers and condemned Israel’s immediate retaliation.
“I condemn without reservations the attack in southern Lebanon, and demand that Israeli troops be released immediately,” Annan said after a meeting in Rome with Premier Romano Prodi.
Annan spoke hours after Hizbullah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, triggering an Israeli assault with warplanes, tanks and gunboats against southern Lebanon as Israeli troops crossed the frontier to hunt for the captives.
'Occupation is what provokes Palestinian, Lebanese people'
”We would not want to see an expansion, an escalation of conflict in the region,” Annan said. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the Hizbullah raid ”an act of war” and held the Lebanese government responsible, vowing that the Israeli response “will be restrained, but very, very, very painful.”
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora phoned Annan and asked that he “prevent Israeli aggression” against Lebanon following the kidnappings.
Siniora also called on the international community to assist the casualties of the Israeli bombings.
Syria said Israel was responsible for the operation by its ally Hizbullah.
"Occupation is what provokes the Palestinian and Lebanese people," Vice President Farouq al-Shara told reporters.
'I urge that any Israeli action be both measured, proportionate'
Al-Sharaa made the comments at a press conference with Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, whose country is also a top backer of Hamas and Hizbullah.
"When the Zionist entity attacks and slaughters the Palestinian people ... Resistance is necessary," Larijani said.
Geir Pedersen, the UN representative in Lebanon, asked Hizbullah to release the two IDF soldiers immediately, as did the EU and US Assistant Secretary of State David Welch.
One day Kofi will be hanging from a rope as an enemy of humanity.
I bet helen Thomas is having a fit. Isnt she Lebanese?
I'm not sure how this Muslim terrorist can get to walk freely around in America.
In my opinion, this has been the case, so far.
Nepotist,Head In Sand,-Komfy Anus needs to S T F U...And leave NY with the whole dam crew from their palace in our country..
Hey Kofi:
SHUT THE F**K UP, FOOL!
I still can't figure out what happened to my application to join the diplomatic corps. Must have gotten lost in the mail;)
FU Kofi...
We need to start a disinformation campaign designed to convince terrorists that the U.N. building is really a secret CIA/DIA/NSA facility and that Kofi runs on the U.S. payroll.
All we have to do is leak it to the New York Times and then ask them not print it lest they damage our efforts in the WOT. This will lend the story instant credibility to the terrorist.
Let the jihadis solve that problem for us.
Just providing the "servicing" to 11 Y.O. girls, that civilized peoples want to hang them for "providing".
"Annan spoke hours after Hizbullah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, triggering an Israeli assault with warplanes, tanks and gunboats against southern Lebanon as Israeli troops crossed the frontier to hunt for the captives."
Does the UN have any shame? Okay, silly question.
Hizbullah violated the sovereignty of Israel and crossed their border, killing and kidnapping soldiers. Why does the UN condemn a response to an act of war?
Shameful and sad. Too bad the "World Body" is full of maggots.
Annan had better start sleeping with one eye open.
Kofi is obviously condemning Hezbollah for this unprovoked attack on Israel and demanding that Israeli troops be released into Lebanon.
LOL! That's the way I read it too!
Because the UN is run by a Muslim.
Coffee Anonymous was, like most "diplomats", speaking out both of his faces at once.
Danged lyxdexia! That should read "Hell'sBalls attacked Israel FROM Lebanon"; not "Israel attacked".
My husband says he'll support anyone running for President in 2008 who will get the US out of the UN and cease supporting them financially.
Who's Kofi? I never heard of him.
Now we've heard from the Kofi-klatch. Ho-hum.
The UN ought to be shut down as a criminal enterprise under the RICO Act.
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