Word: iraq
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...forum, titled "The Gulf War Is Not Over For the Children of Iraq," featured Peter Pellett, head of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mary Smith Fawzi, a research associate for the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health...
Pellett, who visited Iraq last year as part of a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) mission, outlined the deleterious effects of sanctions upon the nation's youth...
Summarizing the recommendations of the FAO report, Pellet called upon the U.N. to "enable Iraq--a potentially rich country--to use its own resources...
...same time, however, Pellett said he recognizes that if the U.N. ended the sanctions on Iraq, it would be a "loss of face" for the organization...
...Farrakhan also praised the government of Sudan, which has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in a long-running civil war, for its "wise Islamic leadership." In Tehran he pledged to help the mullahs overthrow the "Great Satan," as the U.S. is known locally. Then he moved on to Iraq to denounce U.N. economic sanctions--not mentioning that they are intended to ensure that Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons are actually destroyed...