Iraq warns of refugee disaster in al-Qaim

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, June 28 (UPI) -- Iraq's health ministry is warning of a human refugee disaster as thousands of families flee the Iraqi city of al-Qaim, an Arab newspaper reported Tuesday.

The United Arab Emirates' al-Khaleej daily newspaper quoted Iraq's deputy health minister Jalil al-Shammari as warning of starvation among the refugees who fled and continue to flee al-Qaim and surrounding areas to avoid massive U.S. military operations against suspected insurgents.

Al-Shammari told the pro-government paper that more than 7,000 families have left several towns in al-Qaim province in Iraq's northwest.

While most families have taken refuge in several towns, hundreds of families are stranded in the desert, he said.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have banned ambulances and humanitarian aid from entering al-Qaim city, and most of the refugees are suffering from a shortage of food, water and medicine, al-Shammari said.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050628-05415600-bc-iraq-refugees.xml

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. But, don't they feel liberated??

[maddezmom]

2. sounds just like Fallujah and all the other places we bomb the crap out of

bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi's. :eyes:

[bpilgrim]

4. worse than NANKING

:puke:

peace

[Igel]

15. Really?

I suspect that even the most red-blooded American soldier, if there were 1000 of them, would be tired after raping 20 different women each.

Doing that *while* each one is responsible for killing over 350 civilians. Damn! Talk about overachievers.

But wait ... that's just to be *as bad*.

(edited for bad math)

[uppityperson]

3. I hate this shit. eom

[UpInArms]

5. freedom is on the march

:(

[thereismore]

6. Rummy said last Sunday on TV:

"I gave the president a list of at least 15 things that could go terribly terribly wrong." Then he goes on to say that there could have been a moat of oil around Baghdad, or a refugee crisis, which DID NOT happen. I hate those liars.

[donkeyotay]

7. Besides being disgusting, it's probably another war crime

U.S. and Iraqi forces have banned ambulances and humanitarian aid from entering al-Qaim city, and most of the refugees are suffering from a shortage of food, water and medicine, al-Shammari said.

I don't think you can legally deprive civilian populations of food and water even in a WOT.

[ninkasi]

8. If this action is not against International Law

it should be. Even if I didn't know anything else about the odious, smirking disaster of an illegally installed president, this would be enough for me to know that America is becoming a bullying, brutal outcast in the world community under his "leadership."

This should cause all decent people to do everything within their power to get him impeached, tried for crimes against humanity; the same goes for the thugs he surrounds himself with. I had talked myself into watching tonight, but I just can't now. I take medication for high blood pressure, and am afraid of having a stroke.

[donkeyotay]

10. Well said. I was gonna watch, but have realized I shouldn't

"the odious, smirking disaster of an illegally installed president"

Monkey meat. I despise him; I can't watch.

[Auntie Bush]

9. Sounds like we're winning the hearts and minds of a few more Iraqi's

[Karenina]

11. No, they are simply being further

BRUTALIZED in the name of American citizens. No problem. They are ALL nothing more than sand nigger turrists and insurgents. Kick their ass, take their gas. :SIGH: Oh Auntie... :cry::cry:

[Auntie Bush]

13. Can I join you?

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[bpilgrim]

12. more liberated souls

from their bodies :cry:

peace

[WhiteTara]

14. I am sickened

I can not bear another death of innocents on my conscience. *co should rot in a desert without food, water or medicine, then revived so they can do it again.
:grr:

[Roland99]

16. Hey! WAIT A MINUTE!!!

Isn't this one of the things this administration, esp. Rumsfeld on the Sunday talk shows, said DIDN'T happen during the invasion? Mass cases of refugees?

Now we're having large numbers of refugees *over* two years *after* the invasion?!?!


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