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Times Online - Annan points finger at Israel over UN peacekeeper killings

Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, accused Israel today of ignoring repeated warnings from United Nations staff before the bombing of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers. …

Speaking after Arab and Western ministers agreed in Rome to work towards a sustainable ceasefire in Lebanon, Mr Annan said that he accepted the expression of deep regret offered him by Ehud Olmert, the Israel Prime Minister, in a telephone call this morning.

But he refused to back down from his own statement, made only an hour after the bombing, that the attack had been “apparently deliberate”, saying that the shelling around the UN base at Khiyam began early in the morning and went on until 7pm, when contact with the post was lost.

LGF - Annan Says Israel Attacked UN Post Deliberately

But UN Secretary General Kofi Annan already knows who to blame. Annan: IAF hit ‘apparently deliberate’.

I thought the head of the United Nations was supposed to be a diplomat, someone who understands the gravity of making hasty accusations with no evidence, and refrains from heated rhetoric that could make situations worse. (I can dream, can’t I?)

The more he opens his mouth, the more I think even if it wasn’t, I hope it was. And there’s a fairly good chance, statistically speaking, that they’d have had a reason to.