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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44416)	8/22/2003 7:29:45 AM
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Iraqi security guards at UN HQ implicated in bomb blast (Updated at 1400 PST) BAGHDAD: Iraqi security guards at the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters aided the plotters of the suicide bombing which killed at least 23 people, citing a UN official a foreign news agency reported on Friday. They clearly had support from Iraqi security guards inside who gave intelligence to the planners of the attack, the official said on condition of anonymity. It was a well prepared attack. The target was Sergio Vieira de Mello, that much is clear, he said, referring to the top UN envoy in Iraq killed in Tuesday's bombing. They knew where Vieira de Mello's office was and they knew they would find him in his office and they packed the vehicle with the maximum amount of explosives. The vehicle was positioned in the spot where it would make that part of the building collapse, the official said. He said some of the Iraqi guards at the Canal Hotel, the United Nations' headquarters in Baghdad, had been hired under the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein and had links with the fallen dictator's intelligence services. Iraqi security guards at UN HQ implicated in bomb blast (Updated at 1400 PST) BAGHDAD: Iraqi security guards at the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters aided the plotters of the suicide bombing which killed at least 23 people, citing a UN official a foreign news agency reported on Friday. They clearly had support from Iraqi security guards inside who gave intelligence to the planners of the attack, the official said on condition of anonymity. It was a well prepared attack. The target was Sergio Vieira de Mello, that much is clear, he said, referring to the top UN envoy in Iraq killed in Tuesday's bombing. They knew where Vieira de Mello's office was and they knew they would find him in his office and they packed the vehicle with the maximum amount of explosives. The vehicle was positioned in the spot where it would make that part of the building collapse, the official said. He said some of the Iraqi guards at the Canal Hotel, the United Nations' headquarters in Baghdad, had been hired under the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein and had links with the fallen dictator's intelligence services.