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April 22, 2004

UN Death Watch: Day 5

Greyhawk

Last week a shootout erupted between American contractors and Jordanian UN troops in Kosovo, leaving two American women and their killer dead.

This week, as the oil for food scandal (for the latest see here and here) makes it's way to the front pages of America's major dailies, Islamic states announce they could support a UN-led peace effort in Iraq.

Islamic countries are urging the United Nations to take the lead in Iraq when U.S. administrators give up power, and Pakistan and Malaysia said yesterday that they might send troops to protect U.N. personnel if the world body returned to the country.
The comments were made as the United States warms to a U.N. proposal to install a caretaker government to replace the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council on June 30, and as U.S. military planners try to find ways to bolster their forces amid rising violence and the planned withdrawal of some allied troops.

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Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri confirmed yesterday that his country had been asked to contribute to a U.N. protection force in Iraq. "At the moment we are considering that," he said in an interview. "Of course, we will see the ground situation also, and public opinion in Pakistan."

Kasuri was speaking ahead of an emergency meeting of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference to discuss violence in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Meanwhile, although not yet an Islamic nation, here's something to watch: can Spain flee Iraq faster than the UN did?

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April 22, 2004

UN Death Watch: Day 5