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Meanwhile in Iraq--too good not to post

by Gaianne
Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 08:28:06 PM EST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was left shaken but unhurt on Thursday on his first visit to Baghdad after a Katyusha rocket landed just meters from a building where he was giving a news conference.
Moments after telling journalists he might boost the United Nations' presence in Iraq because of improved security, a thunderous blast sent shockwaves through the conference venue, startling Ban and sending him ducking for cover behind a podium.

Security guards grabbed hold of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who was standing next to Ban at the time and was dusted by small bits of debris that fell from the ceiling.
Without commenting on the explosion, which sent a large column of smoke into the air, Ban recovered his composure and took one further question before leaving the conference room.
Interior Minister Jawad Bolani played down the incident afterwards, telling Reuters: "This was not a security breach. Things like this happen in Baghdad once or twice a week."
A Reuters reporter at the scene said the rocket landed on a small building about 50 meters from the news conference venue, a guesthouse in the prime minister's compound. The Interior Ministry said it landed in a field outside the compound.
Earlier, Ban praised Maliki's "strong leadership" and said: "As we see the improved situation on the ground, I am considering to increase the presence of the United Nations."

Well, this was on my Yahoo browswer, which at this point, is the only way to get to my e-mail. (Here is the link, I hope.)

Sorry about the schadenfreude, but it has annoyed me from the beginning that the UN would chose such a blatant US stooge to be Secretary General, and it is just too funny to watch him take a near miss while spouting Bush's talking points.

No worry: They will get him out of there safely. ;)

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by Gaianne on Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 08:29:33 PM EST

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It must have been the same individual(s) that narrowly missed Darth Cheney.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 09:17:15 PM EST

shaken but not stirred...nt (none / 1)

lTMF'sA...the revolution will not be televised...Peace

by dada on Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 11:05:45 PM EST

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The 173,000 until at least 2009.

Other estimates by government-oversight bodies have put the total deployed in the theater at 202,000 to 207,000.)

Make that the 207,000. I predict the next scandal be that back in 2004, Rumsfeld lost track of the number of troops. With these guys who knows....seriously. ;)

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 11:15:08 PM EST

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