'F-Bomb' lands in UN Security Council

UNITED NATIONS: An "F-Bomb" hurled by a Syrian activist struck the UN Security Council in a bid to explode the myth of its mighty prowess in enforcing peace around the world.

Omar Alshogre, who was invited to speak at the Council meeting on Syria on Wednesday, delivered a compatriot's angry message: "F*** you for not being useful, for not being respectful to human lives and human rights in Syria."

That was a departure from the roster of worst insults in the Council chamber that are on the lines of "war criminal", "Gobbelsian" and "genocide perpetrator".

"This must be a historic first — and particularly in the Security Council chamber," Thalif Deen, a long-time UN watcher who has been a staffer, diplomat and journalist there said. "I have never heard of the aF word' being used by diplomats in public," he said.

As breaches of UN's diplomatic etiquette go, the "F-Word" episode may take its place with the 1960 shoe incident when an enraged Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev banged his footwear at the General Assembly's podium. (IANS)

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