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By Edith M. Lederer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — The
business of the United Nations
came to a standstill for 30 min
utes Tuesday as 2,000 U.N. staff,
joined by Secretary-General Kofi
Annan and Security Council
ambassadors, marched in silent
tribute to their fallen colleagues.
Another 3,000 U.N. staff
members, many in tears and car
rying white roses, marched earli
er in the day in Geneva to remem
ber those who died in last week’s
bombing of the world body’s
Baghdad headquarters.
Tributes at the two largest
U.N. offices and at smaller U.N.
missions around the world put a
spotlight on the close ties among
U.N. staff and the anger of many
members that more wasn’t done
to protect the 23 people who died,
including top U.N. envoy Sergio
Vieira de Mello.
The U.N. Staff Union, which
organized the silent marches,
demanded “a full and independ
ent investigation to determine
why adequate security was not in
place at United Nations head
quarters in Baghdad.”
The union’s standing commit
tee on security issued a statement
after the march demanding to
know why so many U.N. person
nel were in Baghdad despite a
high-level security alert. It again
called on Annan to suspend all
U.N. operations in Iraq and with
draw staff “until such time as
measures are taken to improve
security.”
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Annan, wearing a black suit
and tie, walked alongside
Catherine Bertini, the U.N.’s
chief financial officer, around the
traffic circle in front of the 39-
story Secretariat Building. The
head of U.N. peacekeeping, Jean-
Marie Guehenno, and the head of
its political affairs department,
Kieran Prendergast, also joined
the march.
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When one of us is
hurt, the whole family
is affected.
— Agnes Marcaillou
France U.N. member
Annan has said repeatedly that
the United Nations won’t leave
Iraq because of the attack. But the
secretary-general said he was
reassessing security issues — and
Prendergast indicated that a much
wider reappraisal is under way.
“It can’t be business as usual,”
Prendergast told The Associated
Press, “and we are going to have
to assess very thoroughly and
very carefully and in no great
rush what are the full implica
tions for the United Nations of
our future activities and profile in
Iraq.”
His special assistant, Richard
Hooper of Walnut Creek, Calif.,
was among the victims. “He was
doing what he wanted to do
which I suppose is some very,
very slight consolation but not
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much,” Prendergast said.
For Agnes Marcaillou of
France, a close friend of Vieira de
Mello and his chief of staff Nadia
Younes, who was also killed, the
bombing “’was my 9/11.”
“When one of us is hurt, the
whole family is affected, and we
are reliving a second timeaslLN.
what 9/11 put us through as New
Yorkers,” said Marcaillou, who
works in the Department of
Disarmament Affairs.
Guy Candusso, an officer in
the Staff Union, carried a placard
that read, “When will it end? It
must.” He said the Baghdad
bombing highlights "the need for
security in the field.”
“It was certainly a mistake not
to have more eye on security,"
said Mary Hughes, a member of
the union’s security committee,
She carried a placard saying "We
will never forget you.”
“Whose fault it is, that is not
yet determined,” she said.
Salim Lone, the U.N.
spokesman in Baghdad who
returned to New York on Monday,
recounted the selfless devotion
and “heroism” of one U.N.
staffer, Marwan Ali, who rushed
into Vieira de Meilo’s bombed
office and carried out Marilyn
Manuel, of the Philippines. She
was initially reported dead by the
United Nations but later discov
ered alive at a remote medical
facility.
“To go into an area which he
knew had been severely bombed,
he could easily have died him
self,” Lone said. "He’s the one
who saved her.”
Lawsuit asks to remove Bible
HOUSTON (AP) — A woman has sued
Harris County in federal court demanding a
Bible contained within a monument near an
entrance to the civil courthouse be removed.
The Bible has been part of the lighted dis
play since 1995 when the monument that con
tains it was refurbished. It was originally erect
ed in 1956 to honor industrialist
Mosher for his contributions to homeless
programs.
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ing the controversy in Alabama surroundings
judge’s refusal to remove a monument bearing
the Ten Commandments from the state’s judi
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