Nigeria attack highlights the growing threat to the United Nations

The leader of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said Friday's attack on the UN compound in Nigeria and highlighted how the global body has become increasingly "easy target" for extremists.Ban strongly condemned the attack, which took place in Abuja and immediately sent his deputy and head of security for the UN to Nigeria to meet with government leaders and a security review."This was an attack on those who devote their lives to help others. We condemn this terrible act completely.I went to a ban on holding a meeting of the Security Council on peacekeeping around the world, which began with one minute of silence for the victims, and where the most prominent leader of the UN expressed fears of attacks."Let me say clearly, and these terrorist acts are unacceptable, they will not deter us from our work vital to the people of Nigeria and the world," said a Security Council consisting of 15 countries."This is outrageous and appalling attack on the evidence that is increasingly at the United Nations, which are considered easy targets by extremist elements in various parts of the world," Ban said.The leader of the UN headquarters in Abuja during a visit to Nigeria two months ago.Posted ban Deputy UN Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro and the President of the Security Council of UN Greg Starr of Nigeria immediately, and added that he will soon hold talks with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.United Nations has become increasingly a target for terrorism during the past decade. It's got a brutal wake-up call when a truck bomb attack on UN offices in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 that killed Special Representative of the United Nations in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 others.There have been other attacks since the United Nations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in 2007, killed 18 UN staff in a car bombing on the UN compound in Algiers.This year has been particularly difficult for the UN to launch attacks on buildings in various parts of the world, and peacekeeping forces serving as well as the crash and other disasters.Four Ethiopian soldiers in a landmine blast in the Abyei region of Sudan this month, and has been the killing of two African Union peacekeepers in Darfur in the past two months.