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April 26, 2013

U.N. Official Condemned for Highlighting Role of U.S. Policy in Boston Attacks 
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A United Nations official is facing calls for his ouster following his
comments about the role of U.S. policy in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Richard Falk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian
territories, wrote: "The American global domination project is bound to
generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. In some
respects, the United States has been fortunate not to experience worse
blowbacks ... We should be asking ourselves at this moment, 'How many
canaries will have to die before we awaken from our geopolitical fantasy
of global domination?'" Officials in Canada and Britain as well as U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice have called for Falk to be
fired. Officials who questioned the surviving suspect in the bombings
say they were motivated at least in part by the U.S. wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was badly wounded in an
overnight standoff with police last week. He has now been moved from a
hospital to prison.

 

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