Jul. 21st, 2003

Irony

Jul. 21st, 2003 06:01 pm
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Isn't this surprising?
The UN’s Human Rights Commission - chaired by a diplomat from the North African country that was behind the Lockerbie bombing - will hear Israeli officials defend their country’s record in what is sure to be a stormy encounter in Geneva. [...]

But controversially, the chairwoman in charge of proceedings is a Libyan, Najat al-Hajjajia. The career diplomat, elected on a rota basis, promised she would be impartial. Yet one of her first actions at the beginning of the year was to use the platform to launch a political speech against the US over Iraq.

[Link from Little Green Footballs]

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