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IRAQ SANCTIONS MONITOR Number 150
Monday November 6, 2000
LATEST NEWS+++++++++
Iraq's Aziz protests US-UK violation of Iraqi airspace to UN.
Text of report by Iraqi radio on 5th November
Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister and acting foreign minister, has sent two
letters to the UN secretary-general and UN Security Council president
protesting against the continued violation by US-UK jets of the sanctity of
the Iraqi airspace, taking off from their bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and
Turkey. In the letters, Aziz asserted that this aggression represents a
hostile policy, which the United States and Britain have continued to pursue
against Iraq since 1992. He asked the UN secretary-general to undertake his
duties, represented in preserving international security and peace.
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Iraq-Syria pipeline may restart soon.
An Iraq-Syria oil pipeline out of action since 1982 may start pumping again.
A Syrian oil source reveals that it needs only a technical inspection to be
completed.
He declines to comment on a time-frame for the evaluation, but stresses
operation would commence "very soon". Word of the resumption appeared to put
sanctions-bound Iraq back on collision course with the United Nations, just
days after a tussle over the denomination of its oil export revenues.
UN diplomats say Iraq needs permission from the world body to implement an
agreement with Damascus to export about 200,000 barrels per day of Basrah
Light crude oil through the pipeline to Syria's domestic refineries.
Baghdad wants the barrels sold outside the United Nations oil-for-food deal
which allows Iraq to sell unlimited quantities of oil to buy food, medicine
and other humanitarian needs for the Iraqi people suffering under nearly a
decade of sanctions.
Britain's Foreign Office said the proposed exports would deprive ordinary
Iraqis of humanitarian support if they were conducted outside the UN
oil-for-food programme.
Revenues would go to the pockets of the regime to buy their luxuries and not
to the Iraqi people.
At current prices, Iraq's proposed sales to Syria would earn US$6 million a
day. Under the programme 30 percent would go to Gulf War reparations and the
rest to humanitarian purchases. But from December, Gulf War compensation
will be reduced to 25 percent while humanitarian aid will rise to 75
percent.
(c) 2000 MediaCorp News Pte Ltd.
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Companies From 45 Nations Bid to Sell Goods at Annual Trade Fair in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of companies from 45 countries, most of
them European, were bidding to sell goods at a Baghdad trade fair on Sunday,
seen by organizers as breaking the decade-long United Nations trade
sanctions.
This years's 10-day fair, which opened Wednesday, is the biggest since it
resumed in 1995 for the first time after the 1991 Gulf War. A total of 1,554
firms are taking part. U.N. trade sanctions, imposed shortly after the
invasion of Kuwait, ban Iraq from trading freely with the rest of the world.
But under an oil-for-food agreement, the U.N. allows Iraq to sell unlimited
quantities of oil over six months to buy food, medicine and other goods for
humanitarian purposes.
The oil deal is expected to generate more than $10 billion in its current
six-month phase because of soaring oil prices, opening the door wide for
more trade than previous years.
Official trade delegations from Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Sweden,
Belgium, Finland, China, Russia, Turkey and Greece are attending the
exhibition, with Finland, Belgium, Germany, Venezuela and Romania
participating for the first time since the Gulf War. "This great number of
participants reflects the idea that more world countries now call for
lifting the sanctions which is a step toward breaking the embargo," the
director of the fair, Fawzi al-Dhahir, said.
The biggest participants are France, Russia and China - all three permanent
U.N. Security Council members, which advocate an immediate end to sanctions.
The U.S. and Britain are taking a stricter stance as they want to keep the
sanctions in place as long as President Saddam Hussein stays in power.
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Iraq resumes domestic flights.
By Brian Whitaker Middle East editor.
Iraqi Airways, grounded since the Gulf war, resumed regular domestic flights
through the western-imposed no-fly zones yesterday, striking a further
psychological blow against British-backed sanctions.
Two Russian-built aircraft took off from Saddam International airport in
Baghdad for Basra, in the southern no-fly zone, and Mosul, in the northern
zone.
An Iraqi official said the airline had started with one flight a week to
each destination by plane, but added that there would be extra flights by
helicopter.
The US and Britain imposed the no-fly zones in 1991 to protect Kurds in the
north and Shia Muslims in the south from possible attack by Iraqi forces.
Since then, both countries have led Iraq to believe that the ban on flights
extended to civilian as well as military aircraft.
As recently as last September, when the Guardian disclosed Iraq's plans for
a resumption of civilian flights, western diplomatic sources maintained they
would be an infringement of the zones. Britain and the US now say that they
have no objection to the flights.
Saddam's decision to resume domestic flights comes as the whole policy of
sanctions is under unprecedented pressure. Although commercial flights to
and from Iraq are still forbidden, thinly disguised `humanitarian" flights
are now almost routine. One day last week, seven arrived from Turkey,
Lebanon, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, all carrying officials and
business delegations.
In addition, high oil prices mean that Iraq now has more money to spend than
at any time since the 1991 war. A total of 1,554 companies from 45 countries
have sent delegations to the Baghdad trade fair, which continues until
Friday. The biggest delegations are from France, Russia and China - all
permanent members of the UN security council.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said that the RAF would continue to enforce
the no-fly zones, but `if civil aircraft are flying in them it will be a
factor we will take into account".
The US state department has said that, for safety reasons, it wants at least
48 hours' advance notice from Baghdad for each flight. But Iraqi officials
refuse to give a warning because that would imply recognition of the no-fly
zones.
This means that western aircraft patrolling the zones will have to rely on
their own `friend or foe" technology to distinguish between civilian and
military flights. According to one military expert, these methods are not
infallible.
A further complication is that at least one of yesterday's civilian flights
reportedly used a military aircraft.
With Britain and the US already under pressure over Iraq's allegations of
civilian ca sualties caused by bombing in the no-fly zones, the accidental
shooting down of a passenger aircraft would be a disaster for western
policy.
Britain is also concerned about plans to reopen the oil pipeline between
Iraq and Syria later this month. Diplomats say that Iraq intends illegally
to export 200,000 barrels of oil a day through the pipeline, more than
doubling the volume of the country's illegal oil sales.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the proposed exports to Syria would deprive
ordinary Iraqis of humanitarian support if they were conducted outside the
UN oil-for-food programme.
Source: GUARDIAN 06/11/2000
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Iraq says gives Saudi hijackers asylum.
DOHA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Iraq has granted political asylum to two Saudi men
who hijacked a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane to Baghdad last month, Iraq's
foreign minister said.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf made his comments to the Qatar News Agency (QNA) on
his arrival in the Gulf Arab state on Sunday.
"Regarding the hijackers of the Saudi plane to Iraq...Sahaf explained that
Baghdad has granted the hijackers political asylum upon their request after
it referred them to investigation and returned the plane to Saudi
Arabia...," QNA reported late on Sunday.
The Saudi men hijacked the plane last month to Baghdad while on a flight
from the Saudi port of Jeddah to London. Once in Baghdad, the Iraqis
negotiated a peaceful end and arrested the hijackers before the plane left
Baghdad the following day.
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Iraq, Jordan Sign Oil Agreement.
Iraq and Jordan signed an agreement on Friday under which Baghdad will
supply Amman with 35 million barrels of crude oil and products this year.
Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb said the countries had agreed on
a $20/bbl price ceiling, with a discount of 40% for every increase over $20.
Abu al-Ragheb did not say whether this year's discount is lower that last
year's.
He also reported that Jordan has signed a contract to build an oil pipeline
from the Iraqi pumping station in Haditha to Jordan's Zarqa, northeast of
Amman. Work on the pipeline should start immediately, and each country will
pay the cost of the pipeline within its territory, he added.
Iraq delivers 33.6 million bbl of crude oil and products worth $600 million
to Jordan annually under undisclosed concessionary terms that ease the
burden of Jordan's deficit-ridden budget.
Iraq's oil supplies to Jordan are exempted from UN sanctions that ban
Baghdad from freely exporting its oil as punishment for its 1990 invasion of
Kuwait.
(c) Copyright 2000. The Oil Daily Co.
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Iraq resumes flights through no-fly-zones.
BAGHDAD, NOV. 5. Iraqi Airways, whose aircraft have been grounded since the
1991 Gulf War, resumed regular domestic flights today passing through
western-imposed no-fly zones, witnesses said.
They said two aircraft took off from the newly reopened Baghdad's Saddam
international airport at 1:15 p.m. (1015 GMT). One was on a 600 km flight to
the southern city of Basra and another was heading to the city of Mosul, 450
km to the north.
The two planes were carrying businessmen and journalists among the
passengers, they said.
The two planes would have to fly through no-fly zones imposed by the U.S.
and Britain to protect Shias in the south and a Kurdish enclave in the north
from possible attacks by Baghdad troops.
Both the U.S. and Britain said last Monday they had no objection to the
civilian flights and that the no-fly zones were intended to inhibit military
activity. Iraq had announced its intention to resume civilian flights to
Mosul and Basra, located within the northern and southern no-fly zones.
- Reuters.
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Vice president says US-UK use of Incirlik base affects ties with Turkey.
Text of report by Iraqi TV on 5th November
Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan received (Zayn el Abidine Ardam), chairman
of the board of directors of the Turkish (Ardam) companies, who arrived
aboard a private Turkish plane leading a Turkish delegation.
Ramadan reviewed bilateral relations between Iraq and Turkey and the great
progress they had witnessed in all fields before 1990. He also noted the
positive results and joint benefits that had been achieved for the peoples
of the two neighbouring Muslim countries, in line with the bonds of
neighbourliness, religion and common interests.
The vice president stressed that it is in the interest of the Turkish
government to consider the interests of the Turkish people and to set itself
free from the US control.
He indicated that the continued use of the Turkish Incirlik base by US and
British aircraft to conduct continued flights and bomb civilian
installations and residential areas affects the nature of relations and the
volume of cooperation between the two neighbouring countries. It also causes
Turkey major economic and trade losses.
He stressed Iraq's earnest desire to establish the best relations with the
neighbouring countries, including Turkey, in the service of common interests
away from intervention in domestic affairs.
The chairman of the board of directors of the Turkish (Ardam) companies
stressed that the Turkish people love Iraq and work for the establishment of
close relations with it on the basis of the common historical relations
between the peoples of the two countries. He said Turkish businessmen and
companies are eyeing with interest the development of cooperation with Iraq.
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Iraq rejects British human rights report.
An Iraqi government statement on Sunday condemned a report on human rights
abuses compiled by the British Foreign Office, saying it was full of
"falsehoods and silly accusations".
Introducing the text of the statement, Iraqi radio said the report "includes
information and lies which exist only in the minds of those who work in the
dark corridors and cellars of the British Foreign Office".
The Iraqi statement, which was issued via the Culture and Information
Ministry, said the British report was a response to the collapse of the air
embargo on Iraq.
"This report is the product of the traditional British deception and the
masked colonialist hatred against Iraq. It clearly shows that the US
administration and its lackey, the British government, could not confront
the deterioration in the siege, which has been imposed on Iraq for over 10
years, and the collapse of the air embargo. They, therefore, fabricated such
a report and filled it with falsehoods and silly and exposed accusations,"
the statement said.
"The current international position, which supports Iraq and sympathizes
with its legitimate and fair demands, forced the United States and Britain
to search for any pretexts and lies in an attempt to tarnish Iraq's
reputation and image in the world, and, consequently, to hamper any effort
by the United Nations to review the sanctions against Iraq and stop the
continued US-British aggression against it."
"The British Foreign Office's report can only be viewed as a declaration of
bankruptcy by the British government and the US administration. It also
shows their failure to confront the comprehensive international trend, which
rejects and opposes the continuation of the embargo and the aggression
against Iraq," the statement read.
Source: Republic of Iraq Radio, Baghdad, in Arabic 5 Nov 00.
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Iraq-Syria pipeline to restart very soon-source.
DUBAI, Nov 5 (Reuters) - An Iraq-Syria oil pipeline out of action since 1982
will restart pumping imminently once a technical inspection is completed, a
Syrian oil source said on Sunday.
Word of the resumption appeared to put sanctions-bound Iraq back on
collision course with the United Nations just days after a tussle over the
denomination of its oil export revenues.
U.N. diplomats say Iraq needs permission from the world body to implement an
agreement with Damascus to export about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of
Basrah Light crude oil through the pipeline to Syria's domestic refineries.
"Restarting the pipeline is just a technical matter - it is neither
political nor commercial," the Syrian oil source told Reuters by telephone
from Damascus.
He declined to comment on when the technical evaluation would finish, but
stressed operation would commence "very soon".
Baghdad wants the barrels sold outside the United Nations oil-for-food deal
which allows Iraq to sell unlimited quantities of oil to buy food, medicine
and other humanitarian needs for the Iraqi people suffering under nearly a
decade of sanctions.
Iraq, under U.N. trade sanctions since 1990, is allowed to sell an unlimited
amount of oil through the U.N. monitored oil-for-food deal but only through
two ports - Ceyhan in Turkey and Mina al-Bakr in Iraq.
Britain's Foreign Office said on Thursday the proposed exports would deprive
ordinary Iraqis of humanitarian support if they were conducted outside the
U.N. oil-for-food programme.
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Iraq blasts British report on rights abuses.
BAGHDAD, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Iraq on Sunday blasted as groundless a British
report which claimed Baghdad was covering up a grim routine of torture,
execution and mutilation in its bid for international rehabilitation.
The Foreign Office, in a document reportedly compiled from informants in
Iraq and exiles, said President Saddam Hussein's inner circle used regular
executions to rein in his army and strike fear into his people.
A Culture and Information Ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by
the state INA news agency: "The report is but a product of the inherent
British malice and harboured colonial hatred towards Iraq.
"The report clearly shows that the American administration and its ally the
British government were left with nothing to confront the erosion of the
sanctions...rather than fabricating this report and filling it with absurd
and exposed lies," the spokesman said.
The Foreign Office said on Friday that in the last month alone Iraq had
executed eight people on charges of forming an opposition organisation and
defacing murals of Saddam.
The accusations follow a week in which Baghdad, isolated for 10 years by
sanctions imposed for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, hosted a major
international trade fair and welcomed the highest-ranking Arab visitor for a
decade.
"The current international pro-Iraq stance...has prompted America and
Britain to search for pretexts and lies to defame Iraq," INA quoted the
ministry spokesman as saying.
"The British Foreign Office document is but a declaration of the bankruptcy
of the British and American governments," he added.
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Iraq says US, UK suspend 19 contracts at sanction committee.
Text of report by Iraqi radio on 5th November
A source at the Trade Ministry today announced that US and British
representatives at Committee 661 have suspended 19 contracts that Iraq had
signed with several firms within the allowances for the seventh stage of the
oil-for-food and medicine formula.
The source told the Iraqi News Agency that these contracts included spare
parts to repair oil installations, electric power generators, irrigation
systems, medical equipment, educational laboratories for the Education
Ministry, tea-mixing machines, fire engines, cranes and trucks.
The source added that these contracts were signed with Jordanian, Moroccan,
Lebanese, French, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Indian, Austrian, British,
Japanese, Belgian and German firms.
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LETTER - You have mutilated the truth about Iraq.
By George Galloway MP.
If a compilation of every security service and emigre opposition group's
wildest disinformation campaigns were put together it would look something
like your front-page story (Murders and mutilation in Iraq revealed,
November 3). Revealed, mind you, no need for quotation marks in the
credulous Guardian. Drawn from `Foreign Office' documents, laughably
described by your diplomatic editor as having been `obtained' and as
`restricted', the story is the stuff of fantasy and its publication must
have been greeted with loud cheering by its authors.
Your alert readers will be familiar by now with the pattern: the campaign
against the 10 years of sanctions reaches new heights; eureka, new horror
stories are `obtained' by gullible journalists. Like the boy prisoner hoax
spun by the same Foreign Office, lampooned mercilessly in your own pages and
finally stated by you to have been flatly untrue. A measure of the
credibility of your story is its claim that Ziad Aziz, the son of Tariq
Aziz, has been incarcerated in one of these hell holes so helpfully
videotaped, its tortures lovingly described and recorded by the Iraqi regime
just waiting to fall into the hands of the British Foreign Office and Mr
MacAskill.
A few months ago I sat in the home of Mr Ziad Aziz with the same Mr
MacAskill and Aziz seemed in remarkably good spirits and shape considering
his reported incarceration. And although beheadings and amputations do take
place in some Arab countries - funnily enough those countries most
sympathetic to the Foreign Office line - they are illegal in Iraq and not a
shred of evidence has ever suggested that they have taken place.
There are many political prisoners in Iraq and opposition is dealt with
brutally. There are plenty of genuine human rights abuses to write about
there and elsewhere in the region. Why then publish as fact the allegations
of opposition groups who are paid and sustained by the very governments who
wrote and leaked the documents? Amnesty International regularly cautions
against accepting as fact the propaganda material of emigre groups.
MacAskill has been duped and the Guardian discredited by their presentation
of this farrago of falsehoods masquerading as journalism. George Galloway MP
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Source: GUARDIAN 04/11/2000 P23
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Iraq says nearly six and a half million have volunteered to "liberate
Palestine".
Text of report by Iraqi TV on 4th November
The Iraqi people are still flocking to the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party
headquarters in all Iraqi provinces in response to President Saddam Husayn's
order to liberate Palestine from the Zionist usurpation. The number of
volunteers from 10th October to 3rd November reached 6,480,308 people.
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MISCELLANY++++++++++++++++++++
European Meeting of the Baghdad Conference
COMMUNIQUE
The European Meeting of the Baghdad Conference - the organization that
campaigns across the world for the lifting of the embargo against Iraq - was
held in the Metropole Hotel, Brussels, Belgium on 28th & 29th October 2000.
Thirteen countries were present represented by more than 20 organisations.
The list of the countries, delegations and representatives is appended.
The Conference appointed a permanent presidency and secretariat. The
President elected was Mr Jacques Lefevre the leading Belgian parliamentarian
and the Secretary Mr George Galloway, the British Member of Parliament.
The Conference expressed its solidarity with the people of Iraq in their
long struggle against the US and UK led aggression against their country,
until now supported by most of the other European countries, which has cost
the lives of more than one million Iraqis over the last decade, most of them
children. The conference declared this embargo to be a crime against
humanity.
The Conference reflected on the clear links between the suffering of the
people of Palestine and Iraq who are victims of the same kind of aggression
at the hands of the same aggressors. Conference expressed its solidarity
with the Palestinian Intifada and observed a minute's silence for the
victims of the aggression in Palestine and in Iraq. Delegates wore black
ribbons in sympathy with the dead and their families throughout the meeting.
The Conference issued a call to the Governments and peoples of Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia.
Now that it is clear that support for the embargo and bombardment of Iraq is
linked with the US backed Israeli assault on the Palestinians, the
Conference asked both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to distance themselves from
the armed aggression by halting the use of the facilities for the illegal
flights by the American and British forces bombing Iraq and thus put an end
to the illegal and unilaterally imposed so-called "No Fly Zones".
The Conference called upon the countries of the international community and
particularly the European countries to resist American pressure to isolate
Iraq and cease to participate in the ten year old embargo which has solved
nothing and which causes the death of an Iraqi child every six minutes of
every day and night. And which in addition has blighted the lives of a whole
generation of Iraqis causing damage that will take decades to overcome. The
conference will also deplored the economic damage done by the embargo to the
economies of Iraq's trading partners, many of which have not been able to
replace their previous Iraqi markets and have sustained lasting economic
damage as a result.
The Conference acknowledged Iraq's right to use the Euro in its
international oil transactions instead of the American dollar and called on
the United Nations to accept this sovereign decision by Iraq.
The Conference resolved to coordinate the European wide efforts to end the
embargo and to step up the campaign in each country to achieve the earliest
end to the suffering of the Iraqi people, and laid plans to do so.
It was resolved to hold a European wide week of action (21st to 28th
February 2001) to demand that on the 10th anniversary of the end of the Gulf
War hostilities against Iraq including the economic siege should cease. Each
country will determine the content of its own week of action which may
include Parliamentary lobbying, cultural and media activities, picketing of
air force bases, demonstrations and rallies etc. Conference agreed to
address an appeal to the European public calling for the end of the embargo.
The Conference agreed to facilitate the exchange of information about the
content of each country's week of action and to seek to help each other
maximize the impact of their actions.
The Conference resolved that immediately prior to the week of action, a
flight of European parliamentarians, intellectuals, well known personalities
and campaigners would be organized to New York to lobby the United Nations,
which has been monstrously abused by some of its members in the whole Iraq
tragedy, and which has been unable to assert itself and its instincts for
conflict resolution against some of its most powerful members.
The Conference agreed to maximize the readership of the Iraq Sanctions
Monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) published by the Mariam Appeal in London as a
means of beating the media blockade.
The Conference agreed to prepare initiatives to target the European
Parliament and Commission for lobbying and campaigning work against the
Embargo.
Conference agreed to support the Spanish Campaign for the Lifting of
Sanctions in their efforts to highlight the effect of Depleted Uranium on
the health situation in Iraq and in particular their international
conference (25th - 26th November in Asturias). It agreed to seek to engage
veterans of the Gulf War in a positive dialogue.
Conference agreed to support the Mariam Appeal's Iraq International Work
Brigades plan to build an international friendship village and to discuss
Russian proposals to widen this concept.
Conference agreed to support the project of the Jordanian campaign to raise
5,000 specific book references and to transport them through Amman to Iraq.
The Conference agreed to prepare an inventory of film, book and other
helpful campaigning resources which could be circulated throughout Europe.
Conference agreed to hold its next meeting in Madrid in early March to be
followed by a further meeting in Kiev. It was resolved to invite
participation in the Madrid meeting and there afterwards of the relevant
campaigning organizations from non-European countries on the Mediterranean
rim.
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Join The Rebuilding of Baghdad Library Campaign
The National Mobilization Committee for the Defense of Iraq (NMCDI) in
Jordan has initiated an academic book collection Campaign for Iraq. The goal
of this campaign, which has been dubbed "the rebuilding of the Baghdad
Library", is to provide Iraqi students, academics and intellectuals with
scientific and academic books and references that have been prohibited entry
to Iraq for the past ten years. The excuse used is that these items are
considered to be "double usage items". Thus Iraqi's have been denied the
right to learn which is and internationally recognized and protected right.
NMCDI, which has initiated this campaign, is a Jordanian popular committee
that includes political parties, many civil society institutions, unions,
organizations and independent personalities. This committee was established
for the sole aim of raising local, regional and international public opinion
regarding the need to lift the comprehensive economic sanctions that have
been imposed on Iraq for since 1990. The NMCDI believes that the sanctions,
which according to he UN have directly resulted in the death of at least 1.5
million Iraqi civilians and have caused a near total breakdown in the
economic, social, educational and health sectors are a crimes against
humanity.
The book campaign is an attempt among many serious attempts carried out by
the NMCDI to challenge the sanctions that have crippled a nation of 22
million. We believe that we can succeed in bringing people from all over the
world together in unison to stop this atrocity which has denied ordinary
Iraqis from the right to live learn and develop.
Politics aside, we simply believe that it is immoral to deny 22 million
Iraqis the gift of knowledge. Iraq's historical legacy is that it is the
cradle of civilization and it gave humanity the first form of script and the
first legal doctrines. In our time, Iraq was able was able to offer free
education from kindergarten through university. However, after the
destruction of the Iraqi economy as a result of the sanctions and the severe
UN restrictions imposed on Iraq , its legacy and achievements have been
reduced to day to day survival.
The NMCDI has already announced this campaign in Jordan and work has begun
in the book collection plan. However, to achieve our set goals, and to make
this ambitious campaign a global effort, the NMCDI will be working with the
Mariam Appeal organization based in London and led by British MP George
Galloway. Information about the campaign can also be found on the Mariam
Appeal Web Site: www.mariamappeal.com
Our major goal is to collect and forward to Iraq the 8000 academic and
scientific references needed by Iraqi universities and academic
institutions, in an effort to replenish the their empty libraries.
Therefore, our committee is contacting as many institutions, organizations
and individuals as possible to participate in our campaign.
With this letter we would like to officially invite you, your organization,
your company to participate in this humanitarian campaign and help give back
to Iraqis the gift of knowledge.
If you choose to contribute to our campaign, please send us a return email
choosing one or more of the following options for participation:
1) I agree to purchase one or more of the needed books, periodicals, CD's
and forward to your address.
2) I wish to contribute money to your campaign to go towards the purchase of
one or more books, periodicals, etc.
3) I wish to participate by organizing my mini book campaign in my area to
collect academic references to forward to Iraq through your campaign
Once we receive a return email from you stating your selected contribution,
we will contact you immediately with the necessary details.
If you wish to be taken off our list, please send us an email requesting
that your name be omitted
Please feel free to contact us at any time to answer any questions or
respond to any comments you may have. Our aim to succeed in our goals and we
know that together we can make a difference in making our world a better
place.
Contact person: Mr. Fawaz Zuriekat
National Mobilization Committee for the Defense of Iraq
International liaison/ Rebuilding Baghdad Library Campaign
Tel: 962-6-5533166
Fax: 962-6-5533177
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best regards
Fawaz Zuriekat
tel: +44 (0)20 7403 5200
fax: +44 (0)20 7403 3823
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.mariamappeal.com
