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Dirk: re your comment "The first convoy of American humanitarian aid drove from Kuwait-city to the "liberated" Safwan on the Kuwait-Iraqi border, followed by 3 buses with some 100 journalists." >From BBC last night: Actually, the British ship is in position to deliver the food & water right now, however time is needed to get helicopters loaded with reporters out to the British ship to FILM the delivery. So a 24-hour delay has been called (due to a "mine") to arrange for film crew & journalists to helicopter to the unloading site. Reporter said that it is important to Brit/Us that THEY BE SEEN BY THE WORLD DELIVERING FOOD AND WATER TO THE IRAQIS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Adriaensens" <dirk.adriaensens@skynet.be> To: <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: [casi] Was there a press-report about Safwan yesterday? [ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Dear all, has anyone seen on TV or read in the press what happened in Safwan yesterday? The first convoy of American humanitarian aid drove from Kuwait-city to the "liberated" Safwan on the Kuwait-Iraqi border, followed by 3 buses with some 100 journalists. As they arrived in Safwan, a demonstration of hundreds of Safwan-citizens started against the US-military, shouting: "Bush, Bush, hear our calls, we love Saddam Hussein" and "our heart, our blood for Saddam". The Belgian journalist asked the military spokesman what was going on, and if he had expected such a hostile welcome. This military didn't know what to say, and was completely surprised of what he saw. All the journaliste tried to interview the population, but found nobody willing to state that they wellcomed the American/British invasion force, found nobody to criticise Saddam. The American and British journalists were quite confused about what happened. Comment of the Belgian journalist: " I think this won't be shown on American or British TV" and "I don't think the militaries will do such excursions again". I didn't find anything about this incident in the American/British press. Did I miss something? Greetings. Dirk Adriaensens. www.irak.be _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk