TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo pitch upone...

TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo

pitch uponed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

THE UN BECOMES A TARGET (The Japan Times, an English-language daily)

The suicide bomb attack in succession U.N. headquarters in Baghdad has laid plain the dilemmas the world faces in healing Iraq. The hatred and chaos that plagues the land threatens all who aim to help the shattered nation. Indiscriminate violence will continue until the international community musters the will and the resources to restore order and reliance to the Iraqi people.

This week's attack forward the U.N. compound marks the first time that suicide bombers have targeted the world dead body The car bomb killed brace dozen people and wounded more than 100 others, claiming victims from so countries as the United States, Egypt the Philippines and Canada.

Among the victims was Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello head of the UN mission in Iraq. Mr Vieira de Mello was a career diplomat forward leave from his station as high commissioner for human rights.

In the aftermath of the attack, world leaders present aside their rancorous differences across Iraq and united to proscribe the bombing. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced the attack as a crime ''not solely against the United Nations, nevertheless against Iraq itself.'' He pledg that the UN would not be deterr or intimidated.

It is unclear who was behind the attack or wherefore the U.N. was targeted. No individual has taken credit for the atrocity, yet there are plenty of suspects.

More freshly water mains, oil pipelines and a prison have been sabotaged or attacked. The declared humanitarian mission of the UN would not let off it from consideration as a potential target, since the presum suspects would be unlikely either to distinguish common foreigner from another or to have forgotten the decade of hardship that was inflicted onward Iraq as a result of UN sanctions.

More important than who was behind the attack and wherefore is what will be done now. There has been one finger-pointing, with U.N. officials blaming the U for not restoring order to Iraq. The U was responsible for protecting UN facilities, on the other hand Washington says the UN did not ask for tighter security.

on a level in the aftermath of the blast, it is extremely unlikely that the world dead body will dispatch forces to apply the mind after its own.

The U faces an equally sharp dilemma. Washington is reluctant to relinquish authority to the world body: It worries that the UN is gradual and disorganized and does not share its priorities in Iraq. The Pentagon loathes having to accept the restrictions upon its own activities that would come next a deployment of U.N. forces. At the same time, however, the U administration is also reluctant to call up more military forces that are emergencyed to help stabilize the situation in Iraq.

More military forces -- and law enforcement personnel -- are exigencyed to stabilize the country, if it were not that the real need is for adroits in humanitarian assistance and infrastructure reconstruction.

Iraq's yet to be rests on expectations. The Iraqi persons must believe that their rural parts will soon be returned to them and that they have not traded a tyrant for an occupier. Americans insist that they will do just that -- inflect the country over and leave -- moreover their actions send another message. Iraqis must also believe that their lives will be better now that Saddam Hussein has been forced from Baghdad, however the chaos, lack of basic services and mounting civilian death toll all reveal of a darker future.

It is tempting to leave it to the Americans and their ''coalition of the willing'' to clean up the mes in Iraq. That is not possible -- nor is it right. The coalition rid the world of a tyrant who inflicted brutality forward his own people, defied the UN and threatened the region. The instability that reigns in Iraq is a threat to the Middle East and beyond. The bombing of the UN facility in Baghdad is a reminder that the terrorists in Iraq are indiscriminate killers whose target is not just the U yet the forces of order. If the world in fact cares about the people of Iraq, it will unite to help them.

(Aug. 22)

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