U.N. makes attacks on workers a war crime

cnn ^ | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Posted: 9:02 PM EDT (0102 GMT)

[dennisw]

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that aims to strengthen protection of its personnel and other humanitarian workers throughout the world.

The 15-member Security Council passed the resolution one week after the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters was destroyed by a truck bomb.

[SuziQ]

As some would say this would make the bulldozer operator a war criminal. The one that pushed as Rachel Corrie dared him.

I don't think Rachel Corrie wasn't a UN worker. I think she was with a group of students from a college in WA who had gone on a trip to Israel to protest Israeli's tearing down houses of the families of bombers.

[SuziQ]

I don't think Rachel Corrie wasn't a UN worker

DOH! Make that, "I don't think she WAS a UN worker."
Ye gads, girl. PROOFREAD!

[dennisw]

I don't think Rachel Corrie wasn't a UN worker.....

She belonged to ISM which is an NGO. A loathesome NGO that many call humanitarian. If an NGO is working under UN auspicies, the NGO workers get killed, then it *might* be a war crime going by this article.

[John Jorsett]

Wuh oh! You've gone and made the U.N. MAD. Now you're in for it!

[dennisw]

Wuh oh! You've gone and made the U.N. MAD. Now you're in for it!............


Soon they will call posting such articles "war crimes"

[LibKill]

How many aircraft carriers, divisions, tanks, etc. does the U.N. have? How will they enforce their "laws"?

The UN at its very best is an over-priced debate club. At its usual operational level it is a subversive organization that should be despised by every nation on earth.

Let's get the UN out of the US. Now.