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Canal Hotel bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. ... English: US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to the 203rd Combat Engineer Battalion, Missouri Army National Guard (ANG) use ... This image is a work of a U.S.
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The explosion was powerful enough to break windows for more than a kilometer around the Canal Hotel complex where the United Nations has its Iraq headquarters. ... On 22 September 2003 the UN office in Iraq was the target of another apparent suicide car bombing, the second time in a month the institution had been attacked.
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; The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad ... Ask a question about 'Canal Hotel Bombing' ... ; Arthur Helton died in the Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad. He was a lawyer, refugee advocate, teacher and author who dedicated his professional life to working with refugees and recommending ways to ease their plight....
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President Bush condemns the bombing. ... MARSHALL: I was in a meeting on the second floor of the Canal Hotel, and there was an extraordinary explosion which blew me and those in the meeting off our seats against the wall. The roof collapsed, lights went out, and dust was everywhere.
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Observance of the; Fifth Anniversary of the Baghdad Tragedy ... In remembrance of those killed in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 in the service of the United Nations ... Sergio Vieira de Mello...
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Canal Hotel Bombing Iraq Iraqi Office United Vieira Economy. ... The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people and wounded over 100. The explosion damaged a spinal cord treatment center hospital nearby and the shockwave was felt a mile away.
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The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100. The blast targeted the United Nations (UN), which had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since 1991. The attack was followed by a second bombing a...
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Benon Vahe Sevan (born December 18, 1937 Nicosia, Cyprus) was the head of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme, established in 1996 and charged with preventing Iraq's government from using the proceeds from oil exports for anything but food, ... In August, 2003, he was wounded in the Canal Hotel Bombing...
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The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations' Special ...
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