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UN Special Rep To Iraq Vieria De Mello Has Died In Bombing Attack
Reuters | 08-19-03

Posted on 08/19/2003 10:30:17 AM PDT by Brian S

Reuters: Vieria De Bello Has Died

Looking for wirecopy.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: brazil; debello; demello; obituary; rebuildingiraq; un; unhqbombing
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1 posted on 08/19/2003 10:30:17 AM PDT by Brian S
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To: Brian S
Very sad needs, indeed.
2 posted on 08/19/2003 10:30:47 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
needs = news. (And his name was De Mello, not Bello)
3 posted on 08/19/2003 10:31:41 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Brian S
its true
4 posted on 08/19/2003 10:32:05 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Hillary utilized the blackout for broom riding and to practice scaring small animals.)
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To: Brian S
Terrible...
5 posted on 08/19/2003 10:32:31 AM PDT by veronica (http://www.petitiononline.com/KN50711/petition.html - Confirm Daniel Pipes to USIPF ......sign this!)
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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.
6 posted on 08/19/2003 10:37:47 AM PDT by Brian S
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To: Brian S
very sad
7 posted on 08/19/2003 10:37:50 AM PDT by FreeTheHostages
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To: Peach; Admin Moderator
Could you please fix the spelling (Bello=Mello) in the thread title.

Thanks.
8 posted on 08/19/2003 10:39:22 AM PDT by Brian S
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To: Brian S
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.
9 posted on 08/19/2003 10:40:04 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Brian S
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.
10 posted on 08/19/2003 10:40:07 AM PDT by ruiner
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To: Brian S
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.
11 posted on 08/19/2003 10:41:06 AM PDT by Kakaze
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" 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 .

12 posted on 08/19/2003 10:42:50 AM PDT by Kakaze
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To: Brian S
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.
13 posted on 08/19/2003 10:48:45 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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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.
14 posted on 08/19/2003 10:50:22 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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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...

15 posted on 08/19/2003 10:52:23 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Brian S
Where's the Koffee?
16 posted on 08/19/2003 10:57:47 AM PDT by jhw61
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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.

17 posted on 08/19/2003 11:05:41 AM PDT by Brian S
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To: Brian S

Sergio Vieira de Mello
18 posted on 08/19/2003 11:36:32 AM PDT by stlnative
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Sad. Wasn't he the one who called for help on his mobile phone from where he was trapped in the rubble?
19 posted on 08/19/2003 11:43:52 AM PDT by witnesstothefall
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To: Peach
which thread? Was one of the Senators Inhofe? The radio stations around here were panicking until we heard word that Inhofe was OK.
20 posted on 08/19/2003 11:51:34 AM PDT by Charlie OK
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