[Peach]

Very sad needs, indeed.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[rmlew]

Hopefully no Americans died.

[ffusco]

Quick send in the UN peacekeepers...... after we debate for 2 months about seating arrangements, catering, committee chair selection, decending or ascending alphabetical order for rotating basis,and whether the meting should be in New York or Brussels.

[xm177e2]

Anyone who works for the UN deserves whatever happens to them. They are a bunch of corrupt, amoral weasels who never met a terrorist they didn't like (until now). Bleed and die, blue-helmet fascists.

These are the same people who promote terrorism all over the world, and they've finally gotten a taste of blowback. Maybe the UN should ask "why do they hate us?"

I hope no Iraqi people were injured in the bomb attack on the UN compound. That is the real tragedy.

[xm177e2]

This is the guy who was the United Nations High Commissarioner for Human Rights when the Egyptian government allowed "Horsemen without a Horse" to be broadcast on a government-censored TV network. (that's the TV show that was based on "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"). What did Sergio Veira de Mello do to protest that blatant endorsement of racism from the Egyptian government?

Now he's dead, and it's probably Muslim fundamentalists who killed him.

Bleed and die, blue-helmet.

Sources:
B'nai Brith
ADL
UN Document. This shows De Mello was definitely made aware of the existence of the series, even if he wasn't reading his mail, because it was brought up during one of his meetings. He can't claim ignorance. Why didn't he speak out?

Isn't it amazing what one can learn after just a few minutes of Googling?