Did Wikipedia remove the word "resistance" from the Canal Hotel bombing article?

Yes. "resistance" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2010 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Canal Hotel bombing article stop using the word "resistance"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2010. It appears nowhere in the article today, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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What did Wikipedia remove from the Canal Hotel bombing article?

The opening as it read in 2010

Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad , Iraq , in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations ' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello , and wounded over 100. The blast targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just 5 days earlier.¹ (The United Nations had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since the early 1990s. ) The attack was followed by a second bombing a month later which resulted in the withdrawal of the 600 UN staff members in Iraq.² These events were to have a profound and lasting impact on the UN's security practices globally. Scott Ritter: Resistance to American Occupation is Growing, Thriving on the Country's Instability BBC News Mixed feelings over UN Iraq role UN News Centre Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan UN News Centre UN wrestling with security questions one year after Baghdad bombing³

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The opening as it stood in 2005

The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad , Iraq , in the afternoon of August 19 , 2003 , killed at least 22 people and wounded over 100. The blast targeted the United Nations , which had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since 1991 . The Canal Hotel after the bombing.

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The opening as it stood in 2015 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear

The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad , Iraq , in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations ' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello , and wounded over 100. The blast targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just 5 days earlier. (The United Nations had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since the early 1990s.) That 19 August bombing resulted in the withdrawal within weeks of most of the 600 UN staff members from Iraq. These events were to have a profound and lasting impact on the UN's security practices globally. The attack was followed by a suicide car bomb attack on 22 September 2003 near U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people. Abu Musab Zarqawi , the leader of terrorist organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad , in April 2004 claimed responsibility for the 19 August blast. "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan" .

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The opening as it stood in 2020

The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad , Iraq , in the afternoon of August 19, 2003. It killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations ' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello , and wounded over 100, including prominent human rights lawyer and political activist Amin Mekki Medani . The blast targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just 5 days earlier. (The United Nations had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since the early 1990s.) That 19 August bombing resulted in the withdrawal within weeks of most of the 600 UN staff members from Iraq. These events were to have a profound and lasting impact on the UN's security practices globally. The attack was followed by a suicide car bomb attack on 22 September 2003 near U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the leader of terrorist organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad , in April 2004 claimed responsibility for the 19 August blast. "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan" .

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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023

2003 terror attack against the UN in Baghdad, Iraq The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad , Iraq , in the afternoon of August 19, 2003. It killed 22 people, including the United Nations ' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello , and wounded over 100, including human rights lawyer and political activist Amin Mekki Medani . The blast targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just five days earlier. (The United Nations had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since the early 1990s.) The 19 August bombing resulted in the withdrawal within weeks of most of the 600 UN staff members from Iraq. These events were to have a profound and lasting impact on the UN's security practices globally. The attack was followed by a suicide car bomb attack on 22 September 2003 near U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the leader of terrorist organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad , in April 2004 claimed responsibility for the 19 August blast. "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan" .

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The opening as it stood in 2025

2003 terror attack against the UN in Baghdad, Iraq The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad , Iraq , during the afternoon of 19 August 2003. It killed 23 people, including the United Nations ' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello , and wounded over 100, including human rights lawyer and political activist Amin Mekki Medani . The attack targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just five days earlier. The attack resulted in the withdrawal within weeks of most of the 600 UN staff members from Iraq. These events were to have a profound and lasting impact on the UN's security practices globally. The attack was followed by a suicide car bomb attack on 22 September 2003 near U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the leader of terrorist organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad , in April 2004 claimed responsibility for the 19 August blast. "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan" . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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