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Moonirah wrote: May I respectfully add that since 1991 to the present day - 23/9/99 humanitarian aid has always been provided over borders to Iraq from Kuwait - yes Kuwait. The K.R.C.S. which I visited in February this year liaise too with Iraq's Red Crescent and some people do not want us all to know about these facts. I personally know individuals who are Medics and Volunteers from Kuwait who greatly assist the innocent people of Iraq, as well as having been to help in Bosnia, Albania and Turkey. Even the Emirate is not now opposed to changes with 'sanctions' on Iraq, as reported in the Arab internet news during recent weeks - honestly ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Herring wrote: > > I sent the following letter to The Guardian: > > Dear Sir/Madam: > > On BBC 2’s Newsnight yesterday (22 September), the > programme’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban repeated the > Foreign Office claim that UNICEF has shown that low child > mortality rates in the north of Iraq (controlled by the UN) > and high rates in the centre and south (controlled by > Baghdad) are due to Iraq ‘ sacrificing its own people for > propaganda’. However, UNICEF explicitly rejects this: ‘the > difference .... cannot be attributed to the differing ways > the Oil-for-Food Program is implemented’. It explains the > contrast as follows: sanctions have been more easy to evade > in the north, agriculture is easier there, and aid began > arriving in the north in 1991 whereas it began to arrive in > the rest of the country only in 1997, and in large > quantities only from the spring of 1998. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT > the whole list. Please do not send emails with attached files to the list > *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html *** -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Please do not send emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***