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[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Greetings List Members, Over recent months I have had nothing to contribute to the CASI exchanges of information. None of you deserved to hear only my expressions of outrage against others that were directed elsewhere. Of course, my wife Margarita and I have been and remain shocked about the actions and duplicity of the occupation authorities in Iraq, both in the years before and now in the weeks subsequent to the invasion. However, we have been able to channel our feelings of rage to other avenues whilst remaining grateful to have updated and reliable information through the CASI list. We thank all those who have thus kept us informed and so enabled us to continue to speak and write with confidence. As we look back over the years of CASI's work, we pay tribute to those whose sense of right motivated them to give us a reliable vehicle to be informed and to inform. We also thank them for their work to hold those important conferences in Cambridge. The authorities in UK and elsewhere could no longer truthfully claim to have cause to be ignorant of the devastating harm caused by economic sanctions on the people of Iraq. Margarita and I, for over twenty years in the Middle East region, daily saw and felt the disastrous impacts of misguided imperialist policies on those already deprived of justice. We are aware of similar today. Therefore, although the work of CASI has helped to resolve the sanctions' issue, though in ways none of us wanted, related humanitarian injustices in Iraq need to be addressed. With positive inputs, if the CASI list could be used to document and inform us of such continuing injustices and add report-reliability to our personal efforts, we would be grateful. To the several Seb Wills and Colin Rowats and the postings by Peter Brook - all of whom have given unstintingly of their time we say 'thank you'. We now ask if it would be possible for CASI to remain active say, in a "Campaign Against Subversion (of) Iraq" with emphasis on the plight of its people. Iraq's children and their parents still need reliable voices like ours. So does the work for a just peace based on understanding, tolerance and fair economic engagement. Roy Skinner ------- Switzerland _______________________________________________ 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