Baghdad UN mission assisted US and World Bank robbery

international | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday August 20, 2003 10:51 by James McKenna jimmymac61 at hotmail dot com

Four World Bank officials killed in UN building bombing

According to Mary Robinson the UN in Baghdad was playing "second fiddle" to the US occupation forces and this, she says, "was not a good situation". It also appears the UN was also playing second fiddle to the World Bank in it's efforts to economically invade, impoverish and enslave the Iraqi people.

On 9th April, the day after the US bombed and murdered it's way into Baghdad, leaving between 5,000 and 10,000 (Guardian) civilians dead, the first vultures to arrive on the scene were the World Bank/IMF.

Iraq is a member of the 184-nation IMF and World Bank but hasn't allowed the IMF to send in financial teams to review the country's economic data since 1983. A US Treasury Department team was already working on plans to set up a functioning banking and currency system for the country. To fill in needed data, they turned to the CIA for help.

First they seized $1.65 billion in Iraqi government assets that have been frozen in U.S. banks since the first Gulf War in 1990. This cash is to help with "reconstruction", so has already been "given" to Corporations like Halliburton and Bectel. They then declared, "Iraq's massive foreign debt", at $200 billion. "New loan programs" are being established by the IMF and World Bank to legitimise the theft of Iraqi resources.

World Bank President James Wolfensohn said last April that Iraq would need to have in place a U.N. sanctioned government before his institution would be able to extend new loans to the country. Fact-finding missions "to uncover the mysteries of an economy that has been shrouded in secrecy for more than two decades", have been arranged through the UN.

IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler said these missions were to begin the process of gathering data on Iraq's economy, which represents a major enigma to the outside world.

According to Al Jazeera , four members of the World Bank/IMF were killed in their office inside the UN building in Baghdad, plus at least one US "consultant" , which probably means their CIA controller.

If the UN wants to keep such bedfellows and act as the political wing of an illegal and criminal invasion of a soverign country ,then it is firmly in the crosshairs of Iraqi Resistance.

The US appointed head of Iraq, Paul Bremer, was especially pleased with the way the UN was working with the World Bank and US appointed puppet government, which speaks volumes.

Mary Robinson called the bombing of the building the UN were squatting as ," a wake up call to the UN".

If the UN has sense it will pack up and go home and leave the US/UK to justify their own murder and theft. How can you bring about the deaths of so many innocent Iraqi women and children with sanctions and then stroll in like so many well-manner thieves and thugs, expecting anthing less than just repayment.