Residual Forces

This from the UN’s answer to terrorism. A Counter Terrorism SubCommittee, with none other that Syria as a participant. Watch out, stern UN report ahead.

FAYSSAL MEKDAD ( Syria) said his Government condemned terrorism and that his country, which had been a victim of terrorist activity, stood with those calling for a broad and cooperative strategy to combat the scourge.  And while he supported the work of the Council’s terrorism committees, he would urge the CTC to undergo a thorough review of its Consolidated List with a view to addressing listing and delisting procedures, particularly concerning the repetition or misspelling of the names of individuals or entities.  And while he supported the work of the 1540 Committee, he stressed that that body should not supplant multilateral mechanisms working in the field.   Syria was developing its own national legislation to combat terrorism and, in that regard, welcomed the committees’ technical assistance efforts.

He called on the committees not to duplicate their work and he urged the Council not to interfere in matters that were clearly under the purview of the General Assembly.  He also urged the Council to avoid using double standards in its fight against terrorism.   Syria planned to participate actively in the upcoming discussions on elaborating a comprehensive international convention to combat terrorism.  In that context, he urged the Ad Hoc Committee to consider the legitimate right of peoples to fight against occupation and to liberate their lands.
The Arab region was suffering from terrorism every day — State terrorism in particular, as practised by Israel in the form of its ongoing terrorist occupation of Arab lands, continuous killing of countless Palestinians and construction of an illegal wall in parts of the West Bank.  Israel’s attempts to “market” what were in reality terrorist views from the Council’s rostrum today, as well as its attempts to cast doubt on other States, was in fact a dangerous cover.  Such actions had grave consequences, he said, adding that Israel had killed countless people in the past few days, and Syria was awaiting the Council’s condemnation of those actions.  He also expressed the hope that the Council would continue to ensure that the counter-terrorism committees continued to carry out their work in a fair and expeditious manner.

Oh yeah, that’ll work real well. Grant membership to all, regardless of merit. And in case anyone cares, the US was called a terrorist nation on more than one occassion in this report.
Think they’d have asked Germany to chair the committee charged to deal with the rise of Hitler?

Get us out of the UN today!