Kofi Annan Is A Liar
After four UN observers were killed in an Israeli attack Kofi Annan was quick to tell the world that Israel had "apparently" targeted the UN personnel.
Now it turns out that this statement from Annan was a bald-faced lie.
Don't expect Kofi to apologize to the Israelis any time soon for accusing them of murdering international troops.
Now it turns out that this statement from Annan was a bald-faced lie.
An apparent discrepancy in the portrayal of events surrounding the deaths of four unarmed U.N. observers in Lebanon threatens to unravel Secretary-General Annan's initial accusation that Israel "deliberately" targeted the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
A Canadian U.N. observer, one of four killed at a UNIFIL position near the southern Lebanese town of Khiyam on Tuesday, sent an e-mail to his former commander, a Canadian retired major-general, Lewis MacKenzie, in which he wrote that Hezbollah fighters were "all over" the U.N. position, Mr. MacKenzie said. Hezbollah troops, not the United Nations, were Israel's target, the deceased observer wrote.
Don't expect Kofi to apologize to the Israelis any time soon for accusing them of murdering international troops.
