UN Special Rep To Iraq Vieria De Mello Has Died In Bombing Attack

Reuters | 08-19-03

[Brian S]

Reuters: Vieria De Bello Has Died

Looking for wirecopy.

[Peach]

Very sad needs, indeed.

[Peach]

needs = news. (And his name was De Mello, not Bello)

[prairiebreeze]

its true

[veronica]

Terrible...

[Brian S]

Chief UN Envoy in Baghdad Dead, U.N. Announces
Tue August 19, 2003 01:31 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq, was killed on Tuesday in a Baghdad bomb blast, chief U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard announced. Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian, had been trapped under the rubble.

[FreeTheHostages]

very sad

[Brian S]

Could you please fix the spelling (Bello=Mello) in the thread title.

Thanks.

[Peach]

Sure thing.

From another thread, a poster said it was announced the 7 Senators there were to have met with De Mello later in the day in that very building.

[ruiner]

Anyone think this might light a fire under the arse of the UN or will they go into blame and hide mode: This wouldn't have happened if the US listened to us ... We need to leave the good people of Iraq to their own leadership . . .


Ok I just about answered that as I typed in the reply.

[Kakaze]

Sad, but not unexpected the radical arabs have ZERO compassion or concern for who they hurt as they expound alah's greatness........these people are seriously deranged.

[Kakaze]

" Anyone think this might light a fire under the arse of the UN or will they go into blame and hide mode "

Blame and Hide the un is spineless .

[Unam Sanctam]

This is very unfortunate. De Mello was basically a good guy who would bring international legitimacy to the Interim Governing Council and the constitutional arrangements for the new democratic Iraq to emerge.

[af_vet_1981]

From another thread, a poster said it was announced the 7 Senators there were to have met with De Mello later in the day in that very building, which indicates the scheduled meeting was known to the terrorists.

[Thane_Banquo]

which indicates the scheduled meeting was known to the terrorists.

I'm willing to bet there were numerous moles inside the UN. Wouldn't necessarily be hard to recruit them for terrorism either. Birds of an anti-American feather...

[jhw61]

Where's the Koffee?

[Brian S]

Chief UN Envoy in Baghdad Dead, U.N. Announces
Tue August 19, 2003 01:57 PM ET

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, the top U.N. envoy in Iraq and a rising star in the United Nations system, was killed on Tuesday in a Baghdad bomb blast on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, chief U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard announced.

Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian, who had frequently been mentioned as a candidate for secretary-general, had been trapped under the rubble with rescuers trying in vain to reach him.

U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan confirmed with "deepest regret" the death of Vieira de Mello, his special representative in Iraq, Eckhard said..

The tough, debonair Brazilian, fluent in English, French, Spanish and his native Portuguese, has handled some of the world body's most difficult missions, from Kosovo in the Balkans to East Timor in the Pacific.

He was the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights since September and then was sent to Iraq by Annan after the controversial U.S.-British invasion to oust Saddam Hussein and eliminate his alleged weapons of mass destruction. Vieira de Mello was also the first choice of the United States and Britain.

Vieira de Mello had insisted the Iraq appointment be for just four months so he could hold on to his human rights post, in which he replaced former Irish President Mary Robinson.

Eckhard said he had a whole list of successes as a senior U.N. official in hot spots.

"He has distinguished himself as an active, capable doer. Most people saw him as a fast-rising star of the secretariat. We were expecting and continued to expect great things of him in Iraq as well," Eckhard told reporters.

[stlnative]

Sergio Vieira de Mello

[witnesstothefall]

Sad. Wasn't he the one who called for help on his mobile phone from where he was trapped in the rubble?

[Charlie OK]

which thread? Was one of the Senators Inhofe? The radio stations around here were panicking until we heard word that Inhofe was OK.