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Wed Aug-20-03 05:09 PM
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Here is why even the United Nations can't get us out of this mess in Iraq

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3167291.stm

Analysis: Who bombed the UN?

<snip>Radical Islamists are fiercely hostile to the UN, which they see as giving a false legitimacy to US foreign policy.

But some Iraqi nationalists may have a similar view of the world body.

Iraqis deeply resented the stringent UN sanctions they suffered throughout the 1990s.

Many also saw the work of UN weapons inspectors as an infringement of their country's sovereignty.

So the attack could have had a nationalist or an Islamist motivation.

Although the immediate target was the UN, the attack's stark message was directed principally at the United States.

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