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Iraq blames sanctions for suffering 12/05/2002 Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Baghdad said Wednesday that Iraqis are suffering not from torture and other human-rights abuses at the hands of their own government, but from the effects of sanctions that it blames on Britain and the United States. The comments were Iraq's first reaction to a 23-page report presented Monday by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, saying that the Iraqi people live in fear and that Saddam Hussein's regime was in breach of its international obligations. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued another "of his statements that are full...

Iraq says inspectors are spies U.N. team says it's getting results, balancing demands 12/05/2002 Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq protested sharply Wednesday over U.N. weapons inspectors' surprise intrusion into one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces, accusing the arms experts of being spies who staged the search as a provocation that could lead to war. The harshest criticism came from Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, who charged - in language reminiscent of clashes with inspectors in the 1990s - that the new teams of U.N. monitors were gathering intelligence for Washington and Israel. "Their work is to spy to...

Iraq’s environment has been seriously affected by the U.S-led aggression. Thousands of people, mostly children and elderly, died as a result of the aggression and sanctions. Mortality rate is mounting with every passing day. The U.S-led aggression against Iraq in 1991 caused tremendous harm to environment and infrastructure. Thousand tons of laser-guided bombs, fragmentation bombs, cruise missiles, depleted uranium-tipped weapons with a total explosive power equal to six or seven Hiroshima-nuclear blasts were used against Iraq targeting transport lines, communications, electrical grids, water purification units, sewage lines and oil refineries. The aggressors tested depleted uranium (DU) weapons, which are internationally...

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