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UN security council debates regime change in Amiraqa

The United Nations security council is to meet this week to discuss the increasing problem of "rogue state" Amiraqa in the light of recent military aggression.

Concerned members of the UN have pushed the issue to the top of the agenda over what has been called "a powerful threat to world peace". One official close to the action told us: "This is a vitally important issue that cannot wait. We simply cannot afford to do nothing — the price of inaction will be more costly in the long run than any action we take now."

Most fears concern the leader of Amiraqa, Said al-Dubya, whose notorious bellicose approach to regional problems has been blamed for instability across the world. "He is a threat not only to nations in close proximity but to all that he feels may damage his interests," the official told us. "But it was the recent unjustified invasion of a nation state that has given us most cause for worry."

The history of Amiraqa is a bloody one. Religious fundamentalists from Europe migrated to the country. Almost immediately, a policy of ethnic cleansing all but destroyed the indigenous peoples. A rebellion in 1770s was fiercely put down, encouraging further acts that made a mockery of human rights.

Extending its reach to its opposing coast several thousands miles away, Amiraqa then engaged in border wars over the next 150 years. A bloody civil war from 1860-4 put down dissidents in the south of the country and strengthened the state's powers.

Now, with most natives exterminated or imprisoned, Amiraqa set its sights further afield, and using a doctrine of "democracy" invaded nearby islands where a policy of slaughter brought fear to those brought ever closer to its border. Puppet regimes were installed in the Philippines and Cuba, with dictators loyal to the Amiraqa.

Within Amiraqa, those opposed to war were branded as un-patriotic and thrown into prison, sparking a succession of violent and ruthless leaders. Further strengthened by World War Two, which saw the previous world powers drastically weakened, Amiraqa sought to take advantage, attacking a slew of countries of the next half-century: China (1945-46), Korea (1950-53), Guatemala (1954), Indonesia (1958), Cuba, (1959-61), Guatemala (1960), Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-73), Vietnam (1961-73), Cambodia (1969-70), Guatemala (1967-69), Grenada (1983), Lebanon (1983-84), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s), Nicaragua (1980s), Iran (1987), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991-2003), Kuwait (1991), Somalia (1993), Bosnia (1994-95), Sudan (1998), Afghanistan (1998), Yugoslavia (1999), Afghanistan (2001-03), and Yemen (2002).

The country has also been damned as a state sponsor of terrorism, having funded, trained, supported or sheltered terrorists from Cuba, Ireland, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan. It continues harbour known terrorists and refuses extradition requests from other nations. Its disregard for international law has also added fuel to its critics' fire. It dismissed a world court decision over Nicaragua and used its position to veto hundreds of UN resolutions aimed at aiding weak nations.

Amiraqa has however also suffered internally from its policy of oppression. Political life is notoriously dangerous and characterised by assassination, impeachement, sex, finance and murder scandals, including the death of leading entertainment figures and corporate corruption and insider trading. A rigid two-party system has also seen democracy advocates stifled and the law courts abused in sham elections.

Almost without exception, leaders are chosen from a small, wealthy elite who fill the country's seats of power with friends and backers. A controlled mass media means Amiraqis are seldom informed of anything outside their country and the vast majority remain blind to external viewpoints. Recent laws have also given the state even greater powers of detention of observation of its own people, leading many to believe that any constraint factors built into its society have now been lost.

All this, the UN points out, means that Amiraqa poses such a significant threat to world peace that a pre-emptive strike is the only policy that makes sense. However, while the stubborn United States has threatened to use its veto to halt any resolution that would entain the use of force, observers fear that the rest of the world may go ahead with the conflict regardless.

It is hoped that dissenting opinion will be quietened once weapons of mass destruction has been located or if al-Dubya is deposed and put on trial, although officials have stated that while they are the reasons for justifying any war, they don't actually have to do either once they have won.

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