IRAQI RESISTANCE

WSWS: The UN bombing: a product of the US occupation of Iraq

A massive truck bomb yesterday tore through the Canal Hotel that houses
the UN offices in Baghdad killing at least 20 people, including the top UN
official in Iraq—Sergio Vieira de Mello, and injuring more than 100.
The explosion took place at around 4.30 p.m., as a press conference was
underway in the three-storey building that has functioned as the UN
headquarters in Iraq since 1991.

No organisation has claimed responsibility for the bombing. It has been
immediately seized upon by the Bush administration to justify further
indiscriminate reprisals and repression against the Iraqi people. At
the same time, the attack underscores the depth of hostility, anger and
despair felt by wide sections of the population in Iraq and throughout the
Middle East towards Washington's criminal occupation of the country. Political
responsibility for the bomb blast rests with the US and its
accomplices, who have created nothing short of a nightmare for the Iraqi people