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A suicide truck bomb went off on a road next to the UN compound in Baghdad, killing 23 and wounding over a hundred. 

The UN is not popular in Iraq, because of the UN embargo against Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN is more popular in the rest of the Arab world, because of aid projects and anti-Israeli attitudes.

 
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