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June 29, 2000
CAIRO
(AP) - An attack on the Food and Agriculture Organization
building in Iraq on Wednesday has left two people dead, according to a
staffer at the U.N. agency.
One of the victims was an Iraqi citizen, according to the distraught staffer who answered the phone at the FAO office in Baghdad. She declined to give the nationality of the other dead person, saying only the victim was an international staffer. The staffer would not give any other details about the nature of the attack. There was no immediate from the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. The FAO offices are located in a large converted home near Baghdad University.
The FAO representative in Baghdad, Amir Khalil, has been among the most outspoken critics of the effects of U.N. economic sanctions on ordinary Iraqis. Khalil
has pushed the sanctions committee to release holds on agricultural
supplies like vaccines and irrigation equipment that he says are crucial
to helping Iraq feed itself, but that could have military uses. The United
States has been the most active among sanctions committee members at
blocking supplies to Iraq. |