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thousands of child casualties predicted in Iraq 2) 800 missiles to hit Iraq
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Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:19:05 +0200 From: Rick Rozoff Subject: Iraq.
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Iraqi Child Casualities Predicted.
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Hundreds of thousands of child casualties
predicted in Iraq South China Morning Post January 28, 2003
ASSOCIATED PRESS in Baghdad
Death, disease and starvation
await Iraq's children should war break out, and casualties in the hundreds of
thousands cannot be ruled out, says an! independent team of European and
American experts.
Members of the International Study Team, they predict
a "grave humanitarian disaster". The panel includes academics, researchers,
physicians and child psychologists.
Their report, "The Impact of a New
War on Iraq Children", was based on information collected in three Iraqi cities
- Baghdad, Basra and Karbala - and interviews with 200 families.
The
team did not receive any help from the Iraqi government and hired its own
interpreters, said team leader Eric Hoskins, a Canadian.
Dr Hoskins said
at least 500,000 Iraqi children were either malnourished or underweight. Iraq
has only a one-month supply of food and a three-month supply of drugs in
central hospitals. Iraq has about 25 million people.
"Iraq's 13 million
children are at a grave risk of starvation, disease, death and psychological
trauma," Dr Hoskins said.
He said those under 18 were worse off than on
the eve of t! he 1991 Gulf War, when a US-led coalition drove Iraq's army out of
Kuwait. The UN sanctions were imposed after the 1990 invasion.
Twelve
years of economic sanctions have left Iraq's economy shattered, although
expansion of the oil-for-food programme has improved conditions.
Under
the programme, Iraq is allowed to sell unlimited amounts of oil to buy
humanitarian goods, and to pay war reparations.
"While it is impossible
to predict both the nature of any war and the number of xpected deaths and
injuries, casualties among children will be in the thousands, probably in the
tens of thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands," Dr Hoskins said.
"No one is ready for this war, not the national government not the
United Nations," he said, referring to preparations for any humanitarian crisis
that may result from a military assault on Iraq.
The International Study
Team's backers include World Vision Canada, Oxfam Canada, the United Chur! ch of
Canada and the University of Bergen.
Its report on the humanitarian
situation in Iraq following the 1991 war was considered the most comprehensive
of such reports, having been based on more than 9,000 household interviews in
300 locations across Iraq.
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:18:13 +0200 From:
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800
missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours ByAndrew West and agencies
January 26 2003 The Sun-Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/25/1042911596206.html
The US intends to shatter Iraq "physically, emotionally and
psychologically" by raining down on its people as many as 800 cruise missiles in
two days.
The Pentagon battle plan aims not only to crush Iraqi troops,
but also wipe out power and water supplies in the capital, Baghdad.
It
is based on a strategy known as "Shock and Awe", conceived at the Nati! onal
Defense University in Washington, in which between 300 and 400 cruise missiles
would fall on Iraq each day for two consecutive days. It would be more than
twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40 days of the 1991
GulfWar.
"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad," a Pentagon
official told America's CBS News after a briefing on the plan. "The sheer size
of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before."
The
plan has emerged just as American diplomats at the United Nations hinted that
the US Administration might be willing to give UN weapons inspectors another
month to complete their task.
Chief inspector Hans Blix is due to report
back to the UN on Tuesday.
President George Bush has been displaying
increasing impatience with the pace of inspections and is eager to start the
bombing. But according to UN sources he has resigned himself to the fact that
the US lacks enough votes on the Security Council to! wage a military campaign.
Mr Bush's belligerence yesterday found a match in comments by Uday
Hussein. In a rare public appearance, the son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
said the consequences of American attack on his country would make the September
11, 2001, terrorist strike look like a picnic.
He warned: "If they come,
September 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real
picnic for them, God willing.
"They will be hurt and pay a price they
will never imagine. They can get much more from Iraq without resorting to the
logic of force and war."
According to the architect of "Shock and Awe",
military strategist Harlan Ullman, the plan would rely on an extensive array of
precision-guided weapons.
"We want them to quit, not to fight," Ullman
said, "so that you have this simultaneous effect - rather like the nuclear
weapons at Hiroshima - not taking days or weeks but minutes."
The main
objective was not! just to disable Iraq's fighting capacity but to leave the
population dispirited and unwilling to support Saddam's regime.
"You're
sitting in Baghdad and, all of a sudden, you're the general and 30 of your
division headquarters have been wiped out," Mr Ullman said. "You also take
the city down. By that I mean you get rid of their power and water. In two,
three, four, five days they are physically, emotionally and psychologically
exhausted."
The American war plans will cause even greater angst in
Europe, where the French and Russian governments, reflecting wider international
fears, are threatening to veto any US rush to military action.
French
President Jacques Chirac and Russia's Vladimir Putin have agreed "their
positions [on a US strike] are very close", a French spokeswoman said. Both
countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council, and either could
veto any UN approval of an American attack.
Mr Putin has also co-opted
Germa! n Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder into supporting a diplomatic solution to
the crisis in Iraq. Germany is now the major power in Europe and the
Chancellor's reluctance, if not outright refusal, to endorse a unilateral US
strike would be a major setback to the Bush Administration.
The dossier
by Dr Blix, and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed
ElBaradei, is expected to report that Iraqi co-operation with inspectors has
been "satisfactory" and they could find no "smoking gun", no evidence that could
be used a pretext for war.
But the pair will also say Iraq could offer
even greater co-operation in the search for nuclear, chemical or biological
weapons, or materials that could be used in their construction, within its
borders.
But America's increasingly aggressive stance is isolating
opinion around the world. Late on Friday, his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
drove a wedge further into US-European relations when he dism! issed Germany
and France as representing "old Europe".
He comments drew a sharp rebuke
from the foreign ministers of both countries.
If the US wants UN
approval for any strike it will have to wring votes out of the 15 Security
Council members. At the moment, it can count only on the solid support of
Britain, the likely support of Spain and Bulgaria, and the possible support of
Guinea and Cameroon.
China, France, Russia, Germany and Syria were most
opposed and likely to influence Angola, Chile, Mexico and Pakistan.
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