
The United Nations' top security official, David Veness of Britain, resigned Tuesday after a U.N. panel criticized his department's handling of staff security in Algeria, where suicide bombers blew up two U.N. offices in December, killing 17 staffers and injuring 40 more.
The panel, headed by a top U.N. troubleshooter, Lakhdar Brahimi, concluded that U.N. officials ignored credible threats from extremist groups in the year preceding the attack. The panel's report found "ample evidence that several staff members up and down the hierarchy may have failed to respond adequately to the Algiers attack both before and after the tragedy," wrote Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister. The United Nations, he said, has "been found wanting."
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