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...driver of the truck was indeed looking for the right place to park, he chose carefully. The bomb exploded below the office of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian who was head of the U.N.'s mission in Iraq and one of the world's most respected diplomats. His corner of the building collapsed upon itself. U.S. soldiers, stripping down to T shirts in the heat, crawled into tiny crevices and under overhanging concrete slabs, washing away the dust from faces on the bodies they found, calling upon a U.N. official to identify the dead...
...DIED. SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO, 55, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary-General Kofi Annan's envoy to Iraq, in last week's bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. In a career that spanned more than three decades, Vieira de Mello dedicated his keen intellect and considerable charm to rebuilding war-torn states, from Bangladesh to Mozambique. The Brazilian diplomat won accolades for helping restore a measure of civilian order to Kosovo in 1999. His greatest acclaim resulted from his work from 1999 to 2002, when he oversaw the transformation of East Timor into an independent democracy after...
...pursuing a more hostile line toward the occupying forces. Removing Hakim also strikes a blow at the IGC - the Ayatollah's sanction would have been important in establishing the body's legitimacy. Ironically - and not necessarily coincidentally - last week's bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad killed Sergio Vieira De Mello, the UN special envoy who had persuaded the leaders of SCIRI to join Bremer's Council. Now a second voice supporting participation in the body has been silenced. The Baathists certainly have a vested interest in ensuring the IGC's failure - after all, they're fighting an insurgency...
...DIED. Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, fearless and elegant U.N. representative in Iraq, who promoted peace and nation building in such war-torn countries as East Timor, Kosovo and Cambodia; in the suicide bombing that struck U.N. headquarters, killing 23 and injuring 100; in Baghdad. After a 34-year diplomatic career, the Brazilian diplomat was seen as a possible candidate for the U.N.'s top job. "I can think of no one we could less afford to spare," eulogized U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. De Mello survived the initial blast and was heard calling from the building's debris...
...standard response is "We're making good progress." But as Tuesday's terror strike on UN headquarters in Baghdad underscored, America's enemies in Iraq have good reason to be satisfied with their own, grisly progress. The truck-bomb attack that killed 15 people, including UN Special Representative Sergio Vieira De Mello, was simply the latest brutal calling card from what appears to be an increasingly confident and tactically diverse insurgency. President Bush left no doubt that the attacks have not shaken his resolve, vowing hours after the bombing that "these killers will not determine the future of Iraq." Still...