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Re: [casi] Was there a press-report about Safwan yesterday?



Dear list

It would be helpful (to me at least) if when people find nuggets like the
quote below they would give the reference. Is it on the BBC website? If not
what was the programme? Who was the reporter?

Thanks

Peter Brooke

> From: "ppg" <ppg@nyc.rr.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:24:18 -0500
> To: "Dirk Adriaensens" <dirk.adriaensens@skynet.be>,
> <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [casi] Was there a press-report about Safwan yesterday?
>
> 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.
>
>
>


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