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The following letter appeared in yesterday's Guardian. Does anyone have any independent corroboration of the claim? Is the white list an official list and has Iraq recently been placed on it? I looked on the Home Offic page and the last entry for Iraq is April 2000. If true, it is a useful tidbit for us in countering claims that the government cares about the human rights of Iraqi people persecuted by Saddam Hussein. http://www.observer.co.uk/letters/story/0,6903,409382,00.html "Iraqis on the list" Sunday December 10, 2000 Your article on Saddam's executioners (World, last week) must be malign propaganda. The Home Office, (Immigration and Nationality Directorate) has only recently decided to place Iraq on the 'white list'. This means that asylum seekers from Iraq fall to be treated under the expedited procedure as the directorate is satisfied that the conditions of law and order, treatment of prisoners, and civil liberty is such that it is unlikely that Iraq will produce genuine refugees. I appreciate that you give UNHCR as a link, but surely in terms of veracity, there is no contest when comparing UNHCR's opinion with that of Jack Straw and his driven minions. Francis Deutsch Saffron Walden Essex -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Fay Dowker + + Physics Department + + E-mail: f.dowker@qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary, University of London + + Phone: +44-(0)20-7882-5047 Mile End Road + + Fax: +44-(0)20-8981-9465 London E1 4NS, 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