Please join Layla Qasrany for her new podcast, Who Killed de Mello?

Sergio Vieira de Mello was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and a Special Representative for Secretary General when he died in a 2003 explosion at the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. Pinned on an Egyptian named Abu Farid—said to have been at one time a professional hockey player in Milan—the suicide bombing and subsequent “investigation” stank of fish from the start.

And just who was Abu Farid? What that his real name? Why has no photograph of him ever appeared out of Milan Italy?

What happened to the evidence collected from the UN site? Why was there no autopsy for de Mello’s body? And why was the supposed mastermind Abu Omar al Kurdi of the plot executed before any report of his interrogation was made public?

Ms. Qasrany leads listeners through a labyrinth of lies implicating some unusual suspects in this killing and cover-up before delivering her stunning conclusion to the question Who Killed de Mello?