(19 Aug 2025)
IRAQ UN ATTACK ANNIVERSARY
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baghdad, Iraq – 19 August 2025
1. Various of Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and United Nations special envoy to Iraq, Mohamed Al Hassan attending ceremony
2. Various of Rashid laying wreath at memorial site, wreath laid down
3. Various of U.N. officers during salute
4. Various of Al Hassan laying wreath at memorial site
5. Wide of Al Hassan at podium
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed al Hassan, U.N. Special Representative for Iraq and head of U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq:
"That day was a turning point in the history of the United Nations. It was a deliberate, large-scale attack on our organization and on Iraq. It was a wound to the humanitarian community and a blow to the people of Iraq, whose suffering was already immense."
7. Iraqi and U.N. flags
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Al Hassan, U.N. Special Representative for Iraq and head of U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq:
"This year’s commemoration carries special meaning, as it is our last as the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, UNAMI as the mandate of the mission will conclude at the end of this year. But the values we honor today will not end with the end of UNAMI. The United Nations will continue to work side by side with the people of Iraq, with Iraq’s leadershi, and with Iraq’s government."
9. Various of U.N. officers reciting anthem
STORYLINE:
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq commemorated on Tuesday the anniversary of the deadly 2003 attack on its headquarters in Baghdad.
Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and the U.N. envoy to Iraq, Mohamed Al Hassan, attended the ceremony and laid a wreath at the memorial site.
The Aug. 19, 2003, truck bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, which housed the U.N. headquarters in Iraq at the time, killed 22 U.N. staff including the head, Sergio Vieira de Mello, a rising U.N. star.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack against U.N. staff in its history.
The attack came in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled the dictator, Saddam Hussein, but unleashed an insurgency and years of brutal civil war.
"That day was a turning point in the history of the United Nations… It was a wound to the humanitarian community and a blow to the people of Iraq, whose suffering was already immense," Al Hassan said during the ceremony.
The UNAMI, set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country, is ending its mission in Iraq by the end of the year, following a request by the government.
It is the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the nation that Iraq has sought to wind down.
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