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Professor Fred Halliday at LSE has not yet got the news from UNICEF. For two days running he's been on BBC Radio 4 news at prime time, calling the claim that sanctions are killing Iraqis 'a lie', and attributing the deaths to Saddam's misappropriation of oil earnings, which Halliday describes as 'substantial.' I have emailed the international relations expert to send him the little quote below. Jeff Vernon > ...... sanctions which have resulted in an "increase in mortality > reported in public hospitals for children under five years of age...of > some 40,000 deaths *yearly* compared with 1989" (quote from "Situation > Analysis of Children and Women in Iraq", UNICEF, 30th April 1998) > (emphasis addded) > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the > whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html