CHAPTER 20. REBUFFED
1
SVDM, interview by George Packer, August 13, 2003.
2
SVDM, UN draft, August 17, 2003.
3
SVDM, interview by Packer.
4
UN News Center,“Transcript of Press Conference by Sergio Vieria de Mello, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq in Cairo,” August 9, 2003.
5
SVDM, draft op-ed, August 2003.
6
Office of Research, Opinion Analysis, U.S. State Department, October 21, 2003.
7
SVDM, interview with Packer.
8
Anthony Shadid,
Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
(New York: Henry Holt, 2005), pp. 258-59.
9
DynCorp was given the contract for field training sometime in June 2003. In a 2006 interview with David Rohde, Bremer blamed the contractors for the CPA’s failure to ensure that the country was policed: "DynCorp was not producing anybody. We were doing the best we could.” Michael Moss and David Rohde, “Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police,”
New York Times,
May 21, 2006.
10
SVDM, interview with Packer.
11
Notes on the meeting with John Sawers, June 18, 2003.
12
Report of the Independent Panel on the Safety and Security of UN Personnel in Iraq, online at , p.13 (hereinafter Ahtisaari report).
13
Robert Adolph to Ramiro Lopes da Silva, June 18, 2003.
14
Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, U.S. Defense Department News Briefing, June 30, 2003.
15
“Donald H. Rumsfeld Holds Defense Department News Briefing with Jay Garner,” U.S. Department of Defense, June 18, 2003.
16
Jon Lee Anderson, “Out on the Street,”
New Yorker,
November 15, 2004, p. 74.
17
Brookings Institution, “Iraq Index: Number of Attacks by Insurgents and Militias,” updated July 20, 2007.
18
Adolph to Lopes da Silva, Security Management Team, and UNSECOORD, Threat Assessment, June 29, 2003.
19
Kevin Kennedy to UN Headquarters September 4, 2003.
20
SVDM to Bremer and Sawers, July 6, 2003.
21
Robert Adolph, Chronology of Events (in possession of author).
22
Fred Eckhard to Shashi Tharoor, “Iraq Briefings,” July 25, 2003.
23
Salim Lone to Eckhard, August 12, 2003.
24
Ahtisaari report, p. 10.
26
SVDM to André Simões, July 1, 2003
27
Jean-Sélim Kanaan, July 1, 2003, published in Bernard Kouchner,
Les Guerriers de la paix: du Kosovo à l’Irak
(Paris: Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2004), pp. 436-38.
28
Ahtisaari report, p. 17.
29
SVDM to Kieran Prendergast, July 24, 2003.
33
Robert F. Worth and John Tierney, "FBI Teams Sent to Investigate Bomb Attack on Embassy,”
New York Times,
August 9, 2003, p. A6.
34
Vivienne Walt, “Jordanians Ask: Why Us?; Analysts Disagree on Reasons Behind Embassy Bombing,”
Houston Chronicle,
August 8, 2003, p. A21.
35
Justin Huggler, “A Mercedes Was on a Roof, Blown by the Force of the Blast,”
Independent
, August 8, 2003, p. 2.
36
Office of the SRSG, weekly press briefing, August 7, 2003.
37
Helen Kennedy,“Daughters Talk of a ‘Loving Dad,’”
Daily News,
August 2, 2003, p. 3.
38
Initially Jordan denied that U.S. forces were planning on going to Iraq. They were “not participating in this war,” Marwan Muasher, Jordan’s foreign minister, said. They were there only to train Jordanian soldiers and defend Jordan against Iraqi missile attack. Ian Cobain and Stephen Farrell, “Israeli Special Forces Join ‘Secret Front’ in Jordan,”
Times
(London), March 17, 2003, p. 13.
39
Anthony Shadid, “Attacks Intensify in Western Iraq; Foreigners Suspected in Eight Assaults,”
Washington Post,
August 2, 2003, p. A12.
40
Tamara Chalabi, “Jordan Slandered My Father at Saddam’s Behest,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 7, 2003, p. A10.
41
Dexter Filkins and Robert F. Worth, “11 Die in Baghdad as Car Bomb Hits Jordanian Embassy,”
New York Times
, August 9, 2003, p. A1.
42
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Car Bomb Kills 11 in Baghdad,”
Washington Post,
August 8, 2003, p. A1.
43
Filkins and Worth, “11 Die in Baghdad.”
44
Thom Shanker, “Iraqis to Keep Responsibility for Guarding Embassies,”
Washington Post,
August 9, 2003, p. A7.
46
Salim Lone to SVDM, August 13, 2003.
47
SVDM to Martine Chergui, August 7, 2003.
48
SVDM, interview by IRIN news service July 14, 2003.
49
Office of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq (UNOCHI) Centre Region, “Draft Paper on the UN Outreach Campaign in Mosul,” circulated August 17, 2003.
50
SVDM, interview by IRIN.
51
SVDM, remarks to Security Council before presentation of secretary-general’s report, July 22, 2003.
52
The Committee to Protect Journalists found the shelling to be unintentional but avoidable. It faulted senior U.S. officers who knew journalists stayed at the hotel but did not properly convey this knowledge to the tank commander who fired. Eventually the U.S. military investigation into journalist Mazen Dana’s death would reach the same conclusion.The death was "regrettable,” but the soldier who had shot Dana had “acted within the rules of engagement.” Committee to Protect Journalists, “Iraq: CPJ Dismayed by US Investigation into Killing of Reuters Cameraman,” September 22, 2003.
53
Anthony Shadid, “US Military Probes Cameraman’s Death,”
Washington Post,
August 19, 2003, p. A15.
55
Younes to SVDM, August 18, 2003.
56
Jamil Chade, “Ocupação e humilihante, diz Vieria de Mello” (Occupation and Humiliation, Says Vieira de Mello),
O Estado de São Paulo
, August 18, 2003.
57
SVDM, remarks to Security Council before presentation of secretary-general’s report, July 22, 2003.
58
SVDM, interview with Packer.
59
Chade, “Ocupação e humilihante.”
60
SVDM, draft op-ed, August 2003.
61
Chade, “Ocupação e humilihante.”
62
Joshua Hammer, “I Saw Many Dying,”
Newsweek
Web exclusive, August 19, 2003.