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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 02:05 AM
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Red Cross to reduce staff in Iraq
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is reducing its Baghdad staff due to security concerns after last week's truck bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Iraq.


"We are forced to reduce the number of our staff in Baghdad," Nada Doumani, the ICRC spokeswoman in Baghdad, said on Sunday.


She declined to reveal the exact numbers involved but said around 50 expatriate staff would remain in Baghdad to carry out humanitarian work.


"The level of violence is very high and the authority in charge cannot ensure security throughout the country," Doumani said in clear reference to the occupying U.S.-led forces that ousted Saddam Hussein's government four months ago.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030825/80/e6t2p.html

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QuietStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 03:35 AM
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1. what? No UN. No Red Cross.

only 50 will remain? what a botch we have going here. okay that is enough bad news now. America. America?

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