Annan advisor attacksAmerican occupation and Bremer's tactics [View All]

[JoFerret]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1192185,00.

<<The UN's adviser on Iraq made a surprising attack on Washington's handling of its year-long occupation last night, condemning the detention of prisoners without trial or charge and offering a withering analysis of America's governance of the country.
Lakhdar Brahimi, a respected veteran diplomat who used to be the senior UN representative in Afghanistan and now serves as special adviser on Iraq to the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, also criticised the Americans for their onslaught on Falluja.

"The cordoning off and siege of a city is not acceptable," he said. His comments, on a day when the US said that another eight of its soldiers had died, were unexpectedly sharp.

Mr Brahimi is known as a cautious diplomat in public, but he made it clear he was speaking in the name of most Iraqis.

After a 10-day visit to Iraq, he prefaced his catalogue of American mistakes by saying: "We heard of many grievances which need to be addressed." >
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