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An assessment of the recent UNICEF and State Department reports is available at the site run by the Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq: http://www.scn.org/ccpi/ . The analysis is professionally-produced, well-documented, and should be extremely helpful. It's available in both HTML and Word formats. Among its observations: > The State Department's graph of Iraqi mortality rates (presumably based on UNICEF data) discards a key data point, thus misrepresenting the trendlines. > The "2,000 metric tons" of rice which, according to the State Department, had been re-sold for hard currency were instead likely rejected due to quality concerns (based on comments by Von Sponeck last April). BTW - this interpretation has been all-but-confirmed during Harriet Griffin's conversation with Mr. Bob Odeh, Head of Multi-Disciplinary Observation Unit (MDOU) ... see her archived note of 99.10.01. Regards, Drew Hamre Golden Valley, MN USA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Please do not send emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***