Bush Aides Say Attacks Won't Scare Allies Into Leaving Iraq:

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"But all was not smooth on Monday after the latest attacks, and officials said the United States was not especially pleased with the latest move by the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, in setting up a meeting in New York on Iraq with Security Council and Arab diplomats."

Secretary Powell has been stepping up the pressure on Mr. Annan to appoint a special personal representative in Iraq to replace Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed last summer. But United Nations diplomats say they doubt that Mr. Annan will move quickly, in part because of anxiety in the United Nations ranks.

The fear at the United Nations, said one diplomat there, is that the attacks against the latest targets — coming on top of earlier attacks against Jordanian, Italian and United Nations offices — appeared well organized, as if they were an extension of the defense of Iraq by Saddam Hussein.

"You may have toppled the statue, but you didn't take out the wiring that he set up to organize these attacks," said one diplomat, referring to Mr. Hussein.

Some diplomats cautioned that although leaders of the nations fighting with the United States in Iraq were standing firm, the same could not be guaranteed of the people in their countries, where the attacks have had a huge and devastating psychological impact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/politics/02DIPL.html