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Un pulls staff out of baghdad { October 30 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/international/middleeast/29CND-NATI.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/international/middleeast/29CND-NATI.html October 30, 2003 U.N. Pulls Staff Out of Baghdad While It Reviews Security By KIRK SEMPLE The United Nations is pulling out its international staff from Baghdad while it re-evaluates the security situation, a spokeswoman for the organization said today. The move comes after a series of deadly suicide bombings in Iraq earlier this week; in August, a bombing at the United Nation's headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 staff members and visitors and injured more than 150 people. "We have asked our staff in Baghdad to come out temporarily for consultations with a team from headquarters on the future of our operations, in particular security arrangements that we would need to take to operate in Iraq," the spokeswoman, Marie Okabe, said. She said it was not an evacuation from Iraq, and that staff would remain in the northern part of the country. On Monday, suicide attackers killed at least 34 people and wounded more than 200 in coordinated attacks at the International Committee of the Red Cross office and four Iraqi police stations in Baghdad. After the attack, the Red Cross said it would scale back its staff in Iraq but would not pull out entirely. Doctors Without Borders said it would withdraw its non-Iraqi staff of seven. Other aid groups had drastically reduced their presence in south and central Iraq after the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad were attacked on Aug. 19, and the United Nations now maintains only a small staff there. An independent panel appointed to investigate that bombing said on Oct. 22 in a scathing report that security breaches, inadequate security analysis and poor management left the organization vulnerable to attack. "The U.N. security management system failed in its mission to provide adequate security to U.N. staff in Iraq," said the authors, a seven-member committee named by Secretary General Kofi Annan and led by Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland. The panel said the organization had failed to assess thoroughly security in Iraq or respond to warnings, including intelligence reports that said the headquarters could be a target of an attack. The United Nations did not refer to that report in announcing its decision to remove personnel from Baghdad. The Associated Press quoted United Nations officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, as saying that about 20 staff members remained in Baghdad and some 40 others across Iraq. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company

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