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Hi CASI: I have just emailed this to The Guardian regarding Martin Woollacott's depressingly inaccurate article today. Please send in other letters too. Best wishes Eric Herring Dear Editor: Martin Woollacott's article ('Iraq's Devastation is due to Saddam, not sanctions', 23 February) flies in the face of ten years of UN reports. For example, in March 1999 the UN's Humanitarian Panel reported that 'regardless of the improvements that might be brought about in the implementation of the current humanitarian programme ... the magnitude of the humanitarian needs is such that they cannot be met within the context of the parameters set forth in [existing UN] resolution[s]... the humanitarian situation in Iraq will continue to be a dire one in the absence of a sustained revival of the Iraqi economy, which in turn cannot be achieved solely through remedial humanitarian efforts.' Yours, Dr. Eric Herring University of Bristol ---------------------- Dr. Eric Herring Department of Politics University of Bristol 10 Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU England, UK Tel. +44-(0)117-928-8582 Fax +44-(0)117-973-2133 http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Politics eric.herring@bristol.ac.uk -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk