First Person: 'Immense psychological injuries' following 2003 attack on UN Baghdad

By UN News

Aug 18, 2023 10:54 pm

A former member of staff of the World Food Programme (WFP) has been talking about the 'immense psychological injuries' he has suffered following the deadly terrorist attack on the UN offices at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003.

Khaled Mansour, now a writer and journalist, was the WFP spokesperson in Iraq at the time and narrowly missed the massive explosion which killed 22 of his UN colleagues.

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A former member of staff of the World Food Programme (WFP) has been talking about the 'immense psychological injuries' he has suffered following the deadly terrorist attack on the UN offices at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003.

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