World News 31-10-2003 who: The United Nations what: Temporarily withdraws for security consultation where: Baghdad, Iraq when: Yesterday snippet: "The decision follows Monday`s car bomb attack on the International Committee of the Red Cross, in which 12 people, including two ICRC guards, were killed," says The Financial Times. It is officially a temporary measure, but, says The Independent`s Patrick Cockburn in Fallujah, "in the absence of a sudden improvement in security in the near future, the decision seems to be tantamount to an ending of the UN`s presence in the Iraqi capital." Elsewhere, The Guardian reports that Saddam Hussein`s former aide Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is responsible for the recent increase in attacks on occupying forces. [... more]

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