ICRC to pull foreign staffers out of Baghdad following deadly blast

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GENEVA (AFP) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it will pull foreign staff out of the Iraqi capital after a car bomb blew up at its Baghdad office, killing two employees and 10 other people.


"We will begin tomorrow to fly out expatriate staff and then we'll see how we can continue our work with our Iraqi staff," Pierre Gassmann, head of the ICRC delegation in Baghdad, told the website of Germany's ARD public television.


The organisation, which has some 35 foreign staff in Iraq (news - web sites) and 800 Iraqi workers, would continue not to ask for military protection, Gassmann said.


"If we decide to ask for military protection, we will be exactly where the enemy is seen -- at the side of the coalition troops," he said.

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I don't see how the ICRC has any choice but to leave.

"media filter" ... ... my ass!