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	August 19, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		War on Terrorism - Canal Hotel: A truck bomb explosion at the Baghdad Canal Hotel that houses the United Nations mission kills at least 17 people and injures over 100.
		The bomb damages a hospital nearby, and the shockwave is felt a mile away.
		There are conflicting reports that Hamas is responsible for the bombing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_19,_2003 (445 words)

	Canal Hotel Bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 at the hospital nearby and the shockwave was felt a mile away.
		The bombing was followed on September 22, 2003, by another car bomb outside the Canal Hotel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canal_Hotel_Bombing (917 words)

	Wall couldn't stop bomb
		The truck was parked just outside the wall at the corner of the building were Sergio Vieira de Mello, a 55-year-old veteran Brazilian diplomat, was at work 16:30 on Tuesday, 30 minutes before the UN offices were to close.
		The US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities surmised the attack was a suicide bombing because parts of the body of the person believed driving the truck were found 200m from the crater.
		The blue and white hotel - parts faced with dun-coloured brick - was built in the mid-1970s and was Baghdad's only tourist class hotel until Western chains were allowed to build in the tightly controlled country in the 1980s.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-10-1460_1404670,00.html (569 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Bombed hotel in Baghdad had housed U.N. operations since the 1991 Gulf War
		The blue and white hotel, parts of it faced with dun-colored brick, was built in the mid-1970s and was the capital's only tourist class hotel until Western chains were allowed to build in the tightly controlled country in the 1980s.
		The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities surmised the attack was a suicide bombing because parts of the body of the person believed driving the truck were found 200 yards from the crater.
		The bomb exploded 50 feet from the office of Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian diplomat who headed the U.N. mission and was among those killed.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030819-1341-iraq-attackhotel.html (506 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Blast Devastates U.N. Baghdad Offices
		Witnesses said that at about 4:30 p.m., a cement truck crashed into a security wall under construction on one side of the Canal Hotel, which has served as U.N. headquarters since 1991.
		The attack was the deadliest on a U.N. facility since Israeli forces, responding to an assault by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, bombarded a U.N. compound at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996, killing 91 refugees.
		Bombing attacks have escalated steadily across Iraq since June, when the use of roadside bombs to attack U.S. forces first became commonplace.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13307-2003Aug19?language=printer (1421 words)

	CNN.com - Truck bomb kills chief U.N. envoy to Iraq - Aug. 20, 2003
		Sergio Vieira de Mello, a veteran U.N. official appointed to the post in May, was killed when a bomb-laden cement truck exploded beneath the window of his office in the Canal Hotel at about 4:30 p.m.
		U.S. troops were outside a military civil affairs office down the street from the hotel and on the opposite side when the truck exploded, a U.N. official said.
		The bombing was one of the worst attacks on U.N. personnel in the organization's history.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/08/19/sprj.irq.main (969 words)

	Muslim American Society
		At least 20 people died in a truck bomb attack on the U.N. headquarters complex in Iraq.
		The overall number surpassed the toll from an August 7 bombing that killed 14 people and wounded 50 at the Jordanian embassy.
		A U.N. employee said the explosion was caused by a truck bomb.
	www.masnet.org /aroundworld.asp?id=376 (1115 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On Sept. 25, a bomb was placed at the side of a hotel where NBC television had its living quarters, killing a security guard and slightly injuring one NBC soundman.
		The driver was trying to enter the U.N. compound at the Canal Hotel, where a truck bomb Aug. 19 killed 23 people, including the top U.N. envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
		On Aug. 7, a bomb attack on the Jordanian Embassy killed 19.
	www.katu.com /printstory.asp?ID=61481 (605 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Iraq: the agony goes on
		A huge truck bomb struck at the heart of the international humanitarian effort in Iraq yesterday, destroying part of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and killing at least 20 people including the head of the UN mission.
		US officials described the bombing as a suicide attack directly targeted on Mr de Mello, 55, who was in his office on the third floor when the truck exploded.
		The bomb was hidden in a cement mixer lorry, but confusion surrounds whether it was allowed into the compound - where building work had been going on - or whether it was detonated while parked outside a new 12ft-high perimeter wall.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1022200,00.html (1108 words)

	Guardian \| Security lapses blamed for UN bomb
		Major security failures at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad were partially responsible for the large number of deaths and casualties caused by the truck bomb there in August, according to a new report on the incident.
		At the time, the UN had not seen itself as a primary target for anti-occupation forces, as the main targets before the bomb had been coalition troops and Iraqis who were cooperating with them.
		The report runs to 40 pages in its examination of how the truck loaded with explosives was able to get so near to the UN headquarters at the Canal Hotel in central Baghdad on August 19.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4780638-103681,00.html (376 words)

	Declaration Foundation: Restoring America
		The bomb was estimated to have some 300 kilograms of explosives.
		It was the 13th vehicle bombing in Iraq since Aug. 7, when a car exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, killing at least 19 people including two children.
		The most devastating attack against the international presence was the Aug. 19 truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that left 23 people dead, including the top U.N. envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
	www.declaration.net /news.asp?docID=3856&y=2003 (986 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Military munitions used in UN blast, FBI says
		BAGHDAD -- The giant truck bomb that ripped apart the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday was composed of more than 1,000 pounds of military-grade munitions of the kind found in Saddam Hussein's arsenal, according to FBI investigators combing through the rubble yesterday.
		The weapons were packed together on a flat-bed truck, contrary to initial witness accounts of a cement truck, which drove down a public lane abutting the UN's offices in the old Canal Hotel in east Baghdad.
		On Tuesday, the truck carrying the lethal load stopped next to a stone wall enclosing the UN compound, directly under the third-floor office of the UN's chief diplomat in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/08/21/military_munitions_used_in_un_blast_fbi_says (1324 words)

	Worldandnation: Truck bomb in Iraq kills U.N. officials
		Witnesses said they saw a cement-mixer truck turn off the road in front of the compound, rumble through a parking lot and crash into the brick wall that surrounds the building.
		The truck evidently penetrated the wall before it exploded; its remains were frozen midway through the wall.
		The modest Canal Hotel was converted to U.N. headquarters after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/08/20/news_pf/Worldandnation/Truck_bomb_in_Iraq_ki.shtml (1067 words)

	UN Headquarters in Baghdad hit by truck bomb
		The blast, which occurred at 16:30 local time, brought down a large section of the Canal Hotel's facade, reducing a score of offices to rubble.
		American military forces were working to rescue those trapped by the collapse of the building and to ferry the wounded to hospitals.
		The Canal Hotel houses the offices of many of Iraq's UN agencies.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=925 (373 words)

	BOMB BLAST RIPS UN HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD (August 19, 2003)
		The attack happened when a bomb explosion was set off in a truck parked outside the Canal Hotel, which houses the UN Headquarters.
		A partial view of the destroyed United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, that was was destroyed by a truck bomb on August 19, 2003.
		View of the corridor in the United Nations building in Baghdad that was damaged by a truck bomb attack on August 19, 2003.
	www.un.org /av/photo/subjects/unhqbombing.htm (513 words)

	komo news \| Truck Bomb Explodes In U.N.'s Baghdad Headquarters
		The bombing blasted a 6-foot-deep crater in the ground, shredded the facade of the Canal Hotel housing U.N. offices and stunned an organization that had been welcomed by many Iraqis, in contrast to the U.S.-led occupation forces.
		The bombing came nearly two weeks after a car exploded and killed 19 people at the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad and after a string of dramatic attacks on oil and water pipelines in Iraq.
		In Tuesday's attack, a cement truck - packed with twice the amount of explosives as the embassy blast - detonated at the concrete wall outside the three-story Canal Hotel.
	www.komo4.com /stories/26704.htm (1398 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		The bomb exploded about 200 yards from any of the buildings or mobile offices inside the compound and about 400 yards from the hotel building itself.
		The truck bomb last month was parked outside the front of the hotel just yards from Vieira de Mello's office, when it exploded and brought down the facade, trapping him and several others in the rubble.
		The bomb exploded two days after an assassination attempt against Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on the Iraqi Governing Council and a leading candidate to become Iraq's U.N. ambassador if the interim government wins approval to take the country's U.N. seat.
	www.wjxx.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=8285 (993 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| FBI: Iraq Bomb Made From Saddam Arsenal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The truck bomb that devastated the U.N. headquarters here was a crude combination of explosives from Saddam Hussein's old military arsenal, including a giant 500-pound bomb, an FBI investigator said Wednesday.
		In Baghdad, FBI agents searching for clues in the rubble at the U.N. headquarters determined that the bomb was made up of about 1,000 pounds of old ordnance, including mortar rounds, artillery shells, hand grenades and a 500-pound bomb, Special Agent Thomas Fuentes said.
		The truck bomb was detonated at the concrete wall outside the three-story Canal Hotel at 4:30 p.m.
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=9961 (1119 words)

	At least six die in Baghdad blast
		At least six people were killed and 10 wounded in a car bomb attack outside the Baghdad Hotel -- used by members of the US state department and Central Intelligence Agency -- in the Iraqi capital on Sunday.
		At least 10 people were killed in a car bombing at the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad on August 7.
		On August 19, 23 people, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, a veteran United Nations official, were killed when a bomb-laden cement truck exploded beneath the window of his office in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/oct/12iraq.htm (282 words)

	UN Headquarters Bombing, Baghdad, Iraq
		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.
		Nima Map mis-annotating the location of the Qanal Hotel, later to be used by UNSCOM, UNMOVIC, and the current UN Mission.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/un-hq-baghdad-bombing.htm (695 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wednesday's bombing was far more sophisticated than the guerrilla attacks that have plagued U.S. forces, which have been hit-and-run shootings carried out by small bands or remote-control roadside bombs.
		The positioning of the bomb near the envoy's office suggested he was the target of the attack, L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, told CNN.
		Fifteen bodies in white bags were counted by a U.N. worker at the hotel, and a survey of Baghdad hospitals by The Associated Press found five other people who had died in the blast.
	www.11alive.com /news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=35576 (1287 words)

	Envoy dead as blast shatters UN's Baghdad HQ - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
		A cement truck packed with explosives detonated outside the offices of the top UN envoy in Iraq, killing him and 19 others and devastating the UN headquarters here in an unprecedented suicide attack against the world body.
		The bombing blasted a 2-metre-deep crater in the ground, shredded the facade of the Canal Hotel housing UN offices and stunned an organisation that had been welcomed by many Iraqis in contrast to the US-led occupation forces.
		In yesterday's attack, a cement truck - packed with twice the amount of explosives as the embassy blast - detonated at the concrete wall outside the three-story Canal Hotel.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/08/20/1061261161626.html (1225 words)

	Boston.com / News
		The truck was as close as it could have been to the office of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top United Nations envoy and one of 23 people killed in the blast.
		The bomb went off as a high-level official meeting was in progress in the office.
		Six U.S. soldiers were wounded Friday when their 5-ton truck ran over a roadside bomb on the outskirts of Baiji, about 125 miles north of Baghdad, 4th Infantry Division spokeswoman Maj. Josslyn Aberle said.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/22/iraq.htm (879 words)

	Portsmouth Herald World News: FBI: Saddam munitions used to bomb U.N. in Iraq
		BAGHDAD, Iraq - The truck bomb that devastated the U.N. headquarters here was a crude combination of explosives from Saddam Hussein’s old military arsenal, including a giant 500-pound bomb, an FBI investigator said Wednesday.
		The truck bomb was positioned "quite clearly pretty much in front of de Mello’s office, at the back of the U.N. headquarters’ building.
		Foreign workers were directed to stay in their lodgings that are scattered in many small hotels around the capital.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/08212003/world/46013.htm (1145 words)

	FBI: Iraq Bomb Made From Old Munitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)--The FBI said on Wednesday the bomb that ripped through U.N. headquarters here was made from 1,000 pounds of old munitions including one single 500 pound bomb, all of the materials from Saddam Hussein's prewar arsenal that required no ``great degree of sophistication'' to build.
		Chalabi insisted the bomb was the work of Saddam loyalists but gave to evidence to support his assertion.
		While the bomb used was not sophisticated, the operation as a whole showed greater planning and more precise targeting that the guerrilla attacks that have plagued U.S. forces, featuring hit-and-run shootings carried out by small bands or remote-control roadside bombs.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/967477/posts (1581 words)

	Baghdad Bomb Crude But Deadly - CBS News
		An FBI team that was already in Baghdad investigating the car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy two weeks ago, in which 19 died, has now been assigned to the Canal Hotel attack.
		The cement truck detonated at the concrete wall outside the three-story Canal Hotel at 4:30 p.m.
		The FBI is investigating the truck bomb blast that killed a top U.N. diplomat in Baghdad.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/08/21/iraq/main569431.shtml (1176 words)

	.: Print Version :.
		Police at the scene said one Iraqi security guard at the hotel was killed and 10 people were injured.
		It was the second big car bombing in the capital in the last week.
		He and hotel co-worker Karim Abdel al-Hussein, 23, both said two cars approached the barricaded side street at high speed and one or both got behind the barricade.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2003/10/12/news/breaking/10_12_037_45_18.prt (639 words)

	GRANMA INTERNAtIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The author of the attack died after detonating a car bomb whilst his vehicle was being inspected by an Iraqi police officer who also died in the attempt.
		On August 19, a truck bomb exploded at the Canal Hotel – the UN headquarters – leaving 22 people dead, including Sergio Vieria de Mello the UN’s special representative in Iraq, and more than 20 injured.
		Mortar bombs rained on the prison causing serious damage to the old building, used for confinement during Saddam Hussein’s regime and now by the U.S. occupiers to house a military police brigade.
	www.granma.cu /INGLES/2003/septiembre03/lun22/38dos.html (291 words)

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