2003 Bombing Un Corporate Office Iraq

https://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/the-bombing-of-the-un-headquarters-in-iraq-15-years-on/

On August 19th, 2003 the United Nations headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, was hit with a truck bomb. At least 22 people lost their lives in this attack, including the UN’s top official in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Documents/2004/February%202004/0204war.pdf

cially began (on March 20, 2003) with a ground campaign. Unofficially, a preparatory air campaign already had taken place. Since the end of the first Gulf War, the US and Britain had flown hundreds of thousands of com-bat and support sorties over Iraq in two no-fly zones that enforced UN resolutions. Air operations intensified

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-opposed-iraq-war-didnt-say-until-2005-2019-9

Associated Press/John Locher. Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an NPR interview that he opposed the Iraq War shortly after it began in March 2003...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/09/05/the-un-failed-the-people-of-iraq/

The corner of the building where the bomb went off is where my office was–probably the same office that Sergio de Mello [the UN envoy killed in the bombing] occupied, in fact.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline/

UN Security Council passes Resolution 1441 offering Iraq “a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations.” Iraq agrees and UN weapons inspectors return. 11/14/02

https://www.startribune.com/colin-powell-exemplary-general-stained-by-iraq-claims-dies/600107648/

But his legacy was marred when, in 2003, he went before the U.N. Security Council as secretary of state and made the case for U.S. war against Iraq at ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq.This early stage of the war formally ended on 1 May 2003 when U.S ...

https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2003/08/26/accord_still_beyond_reach_for_un_resolution_on_iraq/

Accord still beyond reach for UN resolution on Iraq. By Bryan Bender, Globe Correspondent, 8/26/2003. WASHINGTON -- India is insisting on a United Nations ...

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/un-hq-baghdad-bombing.htm#:~:text=On%2022%20September%202003%20the%20UN%20office%20in,lot%20in%20Baghdad%2C%20and%20reverberated%20around%20the%20capital.

none

https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/the-uss-latest-bombing-shows-the-us-lost-the-iraq-war/

The US’s Latest Bombing Shows The US Lost The Iraq War. January 7, 2020. 1172. The alliance between the Iraqi parliament and Iranian forces is at the point where anti-US forces can functions freely within the country.... by Ryan McMaken via Mises. The US government tells us that Iraq is harboring anti-US Iranian forces and must be bombed.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jird.2014.31

The 2003 Iraq war and occasions for decisions. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration perceived the Iraqi regime as a threat to the US security. Iraq was, allegedly, equipped with weapons of mass destruction and, consequently, the US government began planning a military operation in 2002. The operation began on 20 March ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-blasts-timeline-idUSL2280890120070822

The final death toll reached 152. This bomb is the deadliest single insurgent attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. April 18, 2007 - Multiple car ...

https://www.nationalmemo.com/iraq/

The U.S. mission in Afghanistan was unalterably damaged when President George W. Bush hijacked that post-9/11 military mission and foolishly turned the Pentagon's time, attention, and resources to a doomed invasion of Iraq. Much of the mainstream media cheered that utterly failed war. Battered by accusations of a liberal bias and determined to ...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61023-4/fulltext

In this descriptive study, we analysed and compared suicide bomb casualties in Iraq that were documented in two datasets covering March 20, 2003, to Dec 31, 2010—one reporting coalition-soldier deaths from suicide bombs, the other reporting deaths and ...

https://www.un.org/press/en/2007/sgsm11127.doc.htm

BAGHDAD BOMBING OF UNITED NATIONS IN 2003 ‘SHOOK US TO THE VERY CORE’, BUT DID NOT SHAKE ORGANIZATION’S IDEALS, VALUES, COMMITMENT OR RESOLVE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL. 17 August 2007 ...

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/iraq-war

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrlAR_U-A5o

Note: Shots 1 and 3 are MUTE1. Wide shot of press conference2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Bremer, US civilian administrator of Iraq:quot;...(the) people who did t...

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1950366/middle-east

Officials: Iraq arrests mastermind of deadly 2016 bombing The suicide car bombing in the central Karradah district was the deadliest attack by a single bomber in the Iraqi capital after the 2003 ...

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/2003-bomb-iraq.html

The ruins of the United Nations headquarters that was destroyed in the 2003 bomb attack is seen in Baghdad August 19, 2007. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) commemorated on Sunday the fourth anniversary of the bombing of the UN Baghdad headquarters at the Canal hotel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/13/iraq

Mon 13 Oct 2003 03.54 EDT First published on Mon 13 Oct 2003 03.54 EDT. ... top UN envoy to Iraq, after truck bomb devastates UN headquarters in Baghdad in ...

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/2/13/al-amiriyya-once-upon-a-bombing-in-iraq/

The daily bombing campaigns all over Iraq had been ongoing since January 17 of that year. The declared objective was to drive the occupying Iraqi army out of Kuwait, which it ...

https://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/iraq-and-the-media/

February 4, 2003. —FAIR releases a media advisory, “ Iraq’s Hidden Weapons: From Allegation to Fact ,” which points out that the “media’s intensive coverage of the UN inspections has repeatedly glided from reporting the allegation that Iraq is hiding banned weapons materials to repeating it as a statement of fact.”.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2003/04/23/Analysis-Strategic-bombing-in-Iraq-war/47351051129899/

Analysis: Strategic bombing in Iraq war. WASHINGTON, April 23 (UPI) -- Operation Iraqi Freedom provided good news and bad news for advocates of strategic bombing. The good news is that our bombing ...

https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html

Iraq - Maps (UN OCHA) Includes many 2014 maps Iraq - Maps (GlobalSecurity.org) Iraq - Maps (HealingIraq.Blogspot.com) Iraq - Maps [Archived] (United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq/Internet Archive) Iraq - Maps (ReliefWeb) Iraq - Major Roads and Oil Pipelines (U.N. Office for the Iraq ...

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm

Office Bombing in Baghdad, December 19, 2003: A bomb destroyed the Baghdad office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, killing a woman and wounding at least 7 other persons. Suicide Car Bombing in Irbil, December 24, 2003 : A suicide car bomb attack on the Kurdish Interior Ministry in Irbil, Iraq, killed 5 persons and ...

https://historypak.com/american-attack-iraq-2003/

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the start of conflict known as Iraq war, or operation Iraqi freedom, in which a combined force of groups from American, the United Kingdom, Austria and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Husain in 21 days of major combat operation. Saddam Husain regime was fluctuating between math and realities.