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To: greenspirit who wrote (112626)	8/24/2003 4:01:10 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

Can't find the fallacies? ... it's not that difficult ... but very well, let's go through the process step by step ... here's your post - #reply-19238332 .... let's pick out, oh say two fallacies - 1. 'In all likelyhood [sic] Anan [sic] made the decision' 2. 'He was probably sitting in N.Y. ... when the bombing took place.' Now, using the search term 'annan' [which will tend to be more common, being the spelling the man uses himself, and thusly more easily googled], we find the following article which points out that 1. Annan did not make any recent decision on security, rather as would be expected the chief of mission did, and 2. Annan was in Stockholm - ' August 21, 2003 Questions Haunt a Saddened Annan By FELICITY BARRINGER UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 20 — As staff members prepared for a candlelight vigil in memory of their slain colleagues in Baghdad, two questions were asked repeatedly here today. Who should take responsibility for the security breach that enabled the bombing to happen? And how can the organization best protect workers who will continue the job of reconstructing Iraq? The questions dogged a haggard Secretary General Kofi Annan from Stockholm to the doors of the United Nations headquarters building in New York, where he met with the Security Council and rose with them in a somber, silent vigil to the victims of the bloodiest attack ever on a civilian United Nations mission. The report that officials of the Baghdad mission had rejected an offer of increased security from allied forces before the bombing caused great concern here. But, with many members of the mission dead, seriously injured or traumatized and scattered, officials were unable to confirm by this evening that an offer had been made. As he returned to headquarters from Europe this afternoon, Mr. Annan said that if the United Nations had turned down the occupation forces' offer, "it was not correct and they should not have been allowed to turn it down." Earlier, speaking to reporters in Stockholm, he said, "We had hoped that by now the coalition forces would have secured the environment for us to be able to carry on the essential work of political and economic reconstruction." That, he added, "has not happened." nytimes.com But bravo for correct spelling of 'fallacy' in your following post .... and speaking of Afghanistan, speakers on for this one - markfiore.com