[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4102-2004Feb1.html|Ain't international law great?]
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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council quietly dissolved a high-profile independent U.N. panel last month that was established more than 21/2 years ago to prevent the al Qaeda terrorist network from financing its war against the United States and its allies, U.S. and U.N. officials said.
The move comes six weeks after the panel, headed by Michael Chandler of Britain, concluded in a stinging report that a number of Security Council sanctions against al Qaeda had failed to constrain the terrorist network.
But Security Council members have denied the move was retribution for the panel's conclusions, saying that the quality of the group's work was uneven and that the group had outlived its usefulness.
I say:
Usefulness to whom?
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/un.html|The case against the United nations] just keeps growing.