‘I Saw Many Dying’ - most significant blow yet... U.N. Iraq

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The bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad has struck the most significant blow yet against an increasingly shaky U.S. administration
 
Aug. 19 —  In the offices of the International Monetary Fund, on the second floor of United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, employees were wrapping up another day of bureaucratic toil. The air conditioners were humming, providing welcome relief from the 120-degree summer heat. Iraqis and expatriates gathered up their briefcases and headed for the elevator bank in the dingy hallway of the three-story building, formerly a tourist inn known as the Canal Hotel.

AT 4:30 PM, AN IMF WORKER who did not want to be identified was chatting with a colleague at his desk when a powerful blast hurled him against the wall and, he says, “everything went black.” A shower of window glass sprayed over him and “pieces of the roof fell on top of me”. The worker stumbled downstairs through darkness and dust, passing people lying gravely injured on the floor. “I saw one body, and many dying,” he said an hour after the blast, picking shards of glass out of his scalp, his blue work shirt splattered with blood.
        The late afternoon attack on United Nations headquarters marked the deadly low point in a week of setbacks to the United States-led effort to pacify and rebuild Iraq.

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/954430.asp?0cl=c1

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1. Damn straight it was significant

especially behind the oil and water pipelines struck. Very bad hit. But that is what bush wanted right. bring em on!! Isn't that what he said. I still ahve to read the articles on this truck bombing. To say anything more than this.