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To: Alighieri who wrote (175287)	9/22/2003 11:29:42 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579244

Just another sorry Clinton lie. This from an admirer of an entire collection of right wing liars...starting with the chiefs of all liars, bush/cheney. It's gotten so bad that they are starting to disavow each other's lies. I would stay away from this topic...you don't have a leg to stand on. Al, that won't stop him. He's already broken it down into good lies and bad lies. Good lies come from Bush/Cheney. Bad lies from the Clintons. He is as partisan as they come and is quickly degenerating. ted

To: Alighieri who wrote (175287)	9/22/2003 12:30:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579244

<font color=green>The level of violence seems to be escalating rather than declining.<font color=black> ******************************************************** Suicide Bomber Targets U.N. in Baghdad By Fiona O'Brien and Ian Simpson, Reuters BAGHDAD (Sept. 22) -- A suicide car bomber blew himself up near the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on Monday, also killing a security guard and wounding 19 people, a month after a huge truck bomb devastated the building. The bomber struck on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, which an Iraqi delegation is due to attend. One of Iraq's representatives, Governing Council member Akila al-Hashemi, was critically wounded on Saturday in an assassination attempt in Baghdad. "This is a suicide bomb," Captain Sean Kirley, a U.S. officer at the scene, told reporters. He said the blast happened at about 8.00 a.m. (0400 GMT), some 250 yards from the U.N. building where 22 people died last month. Kirley said the bomber drove into the U.N. car park and was stopped by an Iraqi security guard. The force of the blast blew the car in half and sent shreds of metal dozens of metres in all directions. A blackened and burned-out hulk was all that remained of the vehicle. "The driver and the guard engaged in conversation and the bomb was detonated from inside the vehicle," Kirley said. "The damage to the other cars was catastrophic." Kirley said the bomber had been aiming for the U.N. building but was deterred by the security. "He wanted to get into the U.N. headquarters and he changed his target," he said. U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel George Krivo told a news conference the attack was "an act of sheer brutality." PANIC AMONG STAFF Hanan Tahir, a nutritionist working for the World Food Programme, said the attack caused panic among staff. "They were screaming, shouting," she said. "They were crying and they were running." Aqeel Abd Ali, a guard at the building, said the torso and head of the bomber had been found, and the face was still recognisable. Police were trying to identify him. At a nearby hospital, Wahid Karim was recovering after having a chunk of metal removed from his head. "I didn't even hear it. I lost consciousness," he said. "I came round in my car. The driver was bleeding." U.N. spokeswoman Antonia Paradela said 19 people were wounded, two of them Iraqi U.N. staff. "This incident today once again underlines that Iraq remains a war zone and a high risk environment, particularly for those working to improve the lives of the Iraqi people," Kevin Kennedy, the senior U.N. official in Baghdad, said in a statement read out by Paradela at the scene. Paradela said U.N. staff did not know why they were being targeted in Iraq. "It's not really for lack of security that this happens," she said. "If people are willing to kill themselves there's not a lot we can do." She said security was being reviewed. "People are just talking here and seeing if we can operate in these conditions. There are deliberations here and deliberations in New York." DEBATE OVER U.N. ROLE Guerrillas also killed three U.S. soldiers over the weekend -- two in a mortar attack on Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad and one in a roadside bombing near the town of Ramadi. In the southern city of Basra, men in two cars attacked a police station with gunfire and explosives, wounding nine policemen, a senior police officer told Reuters. Rising violence has put U.S. President George W. Bush under pressure at home, and Washington is urging other countries to send troops to Iraq to help establish peace after the war that toppled Saddam Hussein in April. Since Bush declared major combat over on May 1, 79 U.S. soldiers have been killed in hostile incidents in Iraq. Bush wants a new U.N. resolution to create a multinational force, but France and Germany, who opposed the war, are demanding the United States agree to a faster handover of power to Iraqis. Washington believes that would lead to chaos. In an interview published by the New York Times on Monday, French President Jacques Chirac proposed that Washington transfer symbolic sovereignty to Iraqis soon and cede real power in six to nine months. With the cost of the occupation mounting steadily, Iraq's U.S. administrator said on Monday he was convinced the $87 billion that Bush requested from Congress last week would be enough to put Iraq back on its feet. "It's a lot of money no matter how you slice it, even here in Washington -- $87 billion is not chopped liver," Paul Bremer said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" show. "We have done a very careful analysis of what is needed and we are confident that this will put Iraq on the path to peace and stability," he added. 11:49 09-22-03 Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.