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Even when the BBC releases 'information', it turns out to be disinformation. ALL of these facts came into the public arena between 17 and 21 December; they were already in the German press before christmas. The BBC, however, waits until 6 January before publishing details which it claims have only just been discovered. Jeff Vernon On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Harriet Griffin wrote: > Published by BBC last Wednesday: > ....Several weeks after the strikes, the UN children's fund, Unicef, > made a first preliminary assessment of damage to civilian facilities. > They said a warehouse containing rice was destroyed in Tikrit in > northern Iraq, ten schools in the southern port city of Basra were > damaged, and an agricultural college in Kirkuk in northern Iraq received > a direct hit. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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