Reply #46: Worst attack on UN since Israel attacked UN compound in 96.......... [View All]

[Pert_UK]

WTF?

Al Qaeda consider the UN a target because it was an instrument in Israel's occupation of Palestine, yet the worst attack ever against UN buildings was by Israel......

"Dia'a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam at Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said the attack fits ``the ideology of al-Qaida. They consider the U.N. one of the international actors who helped the Americans to occupy Palestine and, later, Iraq.''

U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said that if Tuesday's attack was confirmed to be a suicide bombing ``it would, to my knowledge, be the first on a U.N. facility.'' It was the worst attack on a U.N. facility since Israeli forces, responding to a Hezbollah attack, bombarded a U.N. compound at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996, killing 91 refugees."

The UN has friends on all sides then, eh?

20 dead now....I cannot believe that this is happening, it makes me sick to my stomach.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3047320,00.html