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According to a FN reporter (name escapes me), the Arab street was playing this 'surprisingly' straight.

Methinks the leaders have their own homegrown monsters to deal with (sort of like the DNC and their special interests).

761 posted on 08/19/2003 9:58:58 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("We're ready and willing to get the job done." - Staff Sgt Paul Johnson, nr. UN building, Iraq.)

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Contact lost with UN Special Envoy Sergio de Mello injured and trapped with dozen of victims under collapsed wing of UN Headquarters in Baghdad after a suicide bomb truck struck Tuesday.At least 16 known dead, 40 injured. Rescue workers and US troops sifting through rubble for more casualties.

More than 300 were in compound, including UN personnel, many Iraqis and news correspondents when yellow cement truck plowed into side of building and exploded inside. US military render medical assistance, Black Hawk helicopters lift badly injured to hospital alongside stream of ambulances.

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