Delegation misses meeting because of 'mechanical problems'.

Don't take me wrong, I am very happy that none of these folks were at the UN Headquarters in Baghdad today. But gee didn't W get lucky that the delegation was delayed at just the right time?


Yahoo News


Sen. Maria Cantwell (news, bio, voting record), D-Wash., had set up a meeting with Sergio Vieira de Mello, the chief U.N. official in Iraq, who was killed in the attack.

"I thought it was important to meet with the U.N. envoy and to discuss the U.N.'s role with the coalition forces in Iraq," Cantwell said.

But mechanical problems with the delegation's C-130 plane out of Jordan delayed the 1:30 p.m. meeting at coalition headquarters, Cantwell said, so she tentatively set up a telephone call with Vieira de Mello for later. The bomb went off at 4:30 p.m.

None of the U.S. lawmakers was hurt, and the bombing did not alter most of their plans. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., who had temporarily joined the group for the day, was taken to an undisclosed military compound in Baghdad after the explosion.

:tinfoilhat:

Wouldn't want to jab the guy in public.

And cried for Mommy. Was sedated by contemptuous US troops. ;-)

I think that makes a difference...

The coalition headquarters is surrounded by the tightest security cordon in the Middle east, everyone knowing damn well that if it wasn't, it would be rubble in under 3 hours...

3 hrs? I'd give one and a half at the most...

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Sorry about that.