Annan's Claims On Casualties Unravel

Kofi Annan's claims that Israel may have intentionally targeted U.N. observers is appearing to be bogus, like the very organization Annan oversees:

UNITED NATIONS — An apparent discrepancy in the portrayal of events surrounding the deaths of four unarmed U.N. observers in Lebanon threatens to unravel Secretary-General Annan's initial accusation that Israel "deliberately" targeted the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

A Canadian U.N. observer, one of four killed at a UNIFIL position near the southern Lebanese town of Khiyam on Tuesday, sent an e-mail to his former commander, a Canadian retired major-general, Lewis MacKenzie, in which he wrote that Hezbollah fighters were "all over" the U.N. position, Mr. MacKenzie said. Hezbollah troops, not the United Nations, were Israel's target, the deceased observer wrote.

Why would "peacekeepers" be in a war zone to begin with? Annan should have gotten them out of there when it was obvious that Israel was going to invade and root out the bad guys. In a war zone it's difficult to determine who the bad guys are.