Aid Agencies See Possible Fallujah Crisis (RC'srequest to enter denied)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis trapped in Fallujah face a humanitarian disaster unless Iraqi and U.S. authorities allow food, water and medicine into the besieged city, aid agencies said Friday.



The head of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Fardous al-Ubaidi, said she asked for permission from the Iraqi government to deliver humanitarian supplies to Iraqi civilians in the city but the request was turned down.


"There is no water, no food, no medicine, no electricity and no fuel and when asked for a permission, we were only allowed to approach the Fallujah outskirts but had no access to Fallujah itself," al-Ubaidi told The Associated Press.


A convoy of three ambulances and one truck carrying food accompanied by some 15 volunteers will try to enter the city Saturday, she said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_civilians


This is sick.....and there are 7,200 refugees from Fallujah in camps. :mad: as hell

Freedom. Democracy. Rule of Law. Liberation.

Aid agencies have called on US forces to allow them to deliver food, medicine and water to Falluja's besieged citizens, calling the situation in the city a "big disaster".

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society, which receives support from foreign agencies including the Red Cross and UNICEF, said on Friday it had asked US forces and Iraq's interim government to let them deliver relief goods to Falluja and establish medical centres there.

But it said it had received no reply.

"We call on the Iraqi government and US forces to allow us to do our humanitarian duty to the innocent people," said Firdus al-Ubadi, Red Crescent spokeswoman.

"This is their responsibility," she said, adding that judging by reports received from refugees and pictures broadcast on television, Falluja was a "big disaster".

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3446138E-B943-48E8-A083-10C6F5EDD5CA.htm

WHY do "they" hate us?
bhn

"US forces have cordoned off the city and all its suburbs.
They are conducting group killings and eliminations in Falluja
and its suburbs. These families cannot go any where," he added.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3446138E-B943-48E8-A083-10C6F5EDD5CA.htm

They are conducting group killings and eliminations in Falluja and its suburbs.

Who in the hell ordered that?....Falluja genocide?

continue to support this CRAP?
I wish everyone of our troops would simply
walk away, right now.
bhn

sleep.

as they should...but who is listening to the US anymore.

U.S. Concerned Over Humanitarian Crisis in Uganda

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=1276&e=1&u=/nm/20041113/wl_nm/uganda_usa_dc