Kofi Annan - "apparently deliberate" kickbacks

"U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking in Rome on Tuesday, said that an Israeli attack was an "apparently deliberate targeting" of the UNIFIL post. The victims included observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland."

This was, of course, a terrible thing to happen, but it was far from deliberate. The UN observers were in a combat area, and these things happen in combat areas. Israel issued an apology for this event - Israel has too much integrity to apologize for something they know they were right about.

Now, let's look at who made this comment.

July 26, 2006 "STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Swedish government knew in 2000 that
Saddam Hussein's government demanded kickbacks from companies participating in the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program, officials and news reports said Tuesday.

Anders Kruse, head of the (Swedish) Foreign Ministry's legal division, said Sweden had forwarded the information to the U.N. committee in charge of sanctions and was told the extra fees were widely known."

This proves that the UN, and Koffi Annan, knew what was going on. So, here we have a corrupt leader, of a corrupt organization, accusing Israel of purposely targeting some of it's people, while trying to protect itself from continued attacks by terrorists.

Kofi Annan needs to look in a mirror, point his finger, and say "You are guilty of apparently deliberate targeting of Iraqi citizens, for greed."