It has been 15 years since the terrorist attack on the UN compound at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad on 19 August 2003. Darko Mocibob, a senior UN official, had lived through the war in his native Bosnia. The day in Baghdad, bomb blast upended the office where was working.

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It has been 15 years since the terrorist attack on the UN compound at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad on 19 August 2003. At the time of the blast, veteran television producer Francis Mead was undertaking a new challenge in Iraq: reporting for the UN humanitarian news agency, IRIN. He was at the Canal Hotel that afternoon for a press briefing.

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It has been 15 years since the terrorist attack on the UN compound at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad: “the darkest day in our lives at the United Nations”, in the words of the Secretary-General at the time, Kofi Annan. For Mujahed Hassan, who survived the blast on 19 August 2003, working for the UN was an opportunity to serve his homeland. Despite severe injuries and conflicted feelings about the UN following the attack, Mr. Hassan still believes in the global organization and its role in his country’s development.

It has been 15 years since the terrorist attack on the UN compound at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad: “the darkest day in our lives at the United Nations”, in the words of then Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Andrew Clapham is one of the staff who survived the 19 August 2003 blast and have been reflecting on the tragedy — the first time the UN was deliberately targeted on a massive scale.

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