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UN Chief Opens Up, Vows Better Security

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:05:40 PM
By JOHN HEILPRIN

In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tours the destruction caused  by the bombing at the UN Headquarters complex in Algiers, Algeria, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007. Ban Ki-moon visited the site of the suicide bombing that killed 17 U.N. staff members, saying Tuesday that terrorism "must be condemned in the name of humanity." (AP Photo/United Nations/Evan Schneider, HO)UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The normally reserved U.N. chief confided Wednesday he felt speechless at times while meeting survivors and families of victims of the suicide bombing that killed 17 U.N. staffers in Algeria.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was just back from his tour a day earlier of the ruins of the United Nations offices that were hit by one of two truck bombings in the Algerian capital on Dec. 11.

Hundreds of staff packed the lobby of the U.N. headquarters to hear the soft-spoken, bespectacled Ban remember their dead colleagues.


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