MILITANT Islamic groups and loyalist of Saddam Hussein last night headed the list of suspects who may have been responsible for the devastating attack on the United Nations’ headquarters in Baghdad.
Even as survivors were being pulled from the rubble, American investigators were piecing together witness accounts of the bombing and searching for evidence in the remains of the Canal Hotel, which has served as the UN’s compound for more than a decade.
While the UN may be regarded the world over as a symbol of peace and neutrality, in Iraq it has a far more controversial image. For much of the past decade the UN supervised the sanctions regime against Iraq and organised the search for Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.
Many Iraqis blamed