Two senior officials from the disarmament commission were among the dead.
One of the raided compounds housed the new government's disarmament commission.
A joint Afghan and international disarmament commission drew up the list of candidates found to have links with armed groups.
After the war he served in Germany on the Disarmament Commission.
The Russians would also like to curb the independence of a new disarmament commission being proposed to monitor Iraq.
Iraqi has complained repeatedly that the Council and the disarmament commission are dominated by the United States.
Some United Nations officials fear that the Iraqis are trying to outflank the disarmament commission diplomatically.
But it was the mainstream Ulster Unionist Party that first proposed a disarmament commission earlier this year.
First, the I.R.A. has not allowed the independent disarmament commission in charge of decommissioning to state specifically what arms have been decommissioned.
After the Netherlands became a member of the Security Council he temporarily chaired the Disarmament Commission.