September 22, 2003

• Terrorism - Iraq: An attacker killed an Iraqi police officer and himself outside the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, also injured 19 people, including two Iraqi U.N. workers. This occurred a month after a previous deadly bombing there. The bombing comes as the United Nations considers expanding its role in Iraq. [1] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan states that personnel are assessing the situation following the attack. [2]
• 90% of the delegates elected to the November 15 convention of the Liberal Party of Canada support Paul Martin Jr., thereby assuring that he will win the leadership of the party and thereby become Prime Minister of Canada after Jean Chrétien retires in February 2004.
• Anthropology: The jawbone of a cave-man found in Romania is confirmed as the oldest fossil from an early modern human. The bone, found in 2002, was carbon dated to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago. [3]