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<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; An attacker, his body wrapped in explosives and his car filled with 50 pounds of TNT, struck a police checkpoint outside U.N. headquarters in Baghdad yesterday, killing an Iraqi policeman who stopped him and wounding 19 persons.</p> <p>A U.S. military spokesman at the scene said the bomber, who also died in the 8:10 a.m. blast, was trying to get into the U.N. compound at the Canal Hotel, where a truck bomb a month ago killed 23 persons including the top U.N. envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Yesterday's attack wounded two U.N. workers.</p>

The United Nations is re-assessing its presence and security in Iraq after a suicide attack left two people dead, say UN officials. A vehicle exploded at a police checkpoint near the UN headquarters in Baghdad on Monday killing the bomber and an Iraqi police officer, and injuring at least 12 others. The UN has already scaled back its operation in the country since the suicide attack on the headquarters on 19 August in which 22 people were killed. As the pressure continues on the ground, a diplomatic compromise appears closer at the UN's New York headquarters, with France and...

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