No, DougR. You are, as usual, claiming what you want to believe as fact. In today's UN Daily Briefing, when Kofi Annan was asked that very question (ie, had the UN staff on the ground in Iraq refused to accept the coalition force's security measures), he stated that was absolutely not the case. He stated that under the UN resolution approving the US/UK coalition as an occupying force in Iraq, that the coalition forces were fully responsible for all security in the country. He said that no UN staff in Iraq had authority to refuse security from the coalition forces. When pressed further on the point, Annan said that in the unlikely event that UN staff refused protection for UN headquarters, an investigation would take place immediately upon such information coming to the attention of UN staff.

So DougR, again, you are wrong. I'm sure you would like to believe that the UN refused to cooperate with coalition security forces, because it feeds the delusions of reactionary right about the evil of the UN. But that story is utter bullshit. Pure propaganda.