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UN staff forced back into Iraq to provide ‘fig-leaf cover’ for US - World news - News - Belfast Telegraph

UN staff forced back into Iraq to provide ‘fig-leaf cover’ for US - World news - News - Belfast Telegraph
"The 15-member UN security council yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution authorising the UN to return to Iraq almost four years to the day that it pulled out most of its staff after a deadly car bomb that killed its envoy.
The resolution, co-sponsored by the US and Britain, will provide a fig-leaf, if needed, to cover a withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq in the coming months, and pick up the pieces afterwards. But the US and Britain deny any such intention."

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