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Sergio Vieira de Mello died in a bomb attack, in Dili, East Timor 20 August 2003. Indonesia expressed outrage on Wednesday at the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad which killed 17 people including the top UN envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. (CANDIDO ALVES/AFP/Getty Images)
'Chasing the Flame'
Broadcast: Midday, 03/27/2008, 12:00 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power is out with a new biography of the UN envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003 titled, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World," which she recently discussed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Guests
Samantha Power: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Audio
- 'Chasing the Flame' (program audio)
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