Fri, 18 Apr 2003
:-)
Okay, so the news is now
official; I've
made the Hugo shortlist this year, too, with my novelette "Halo". (Meanwhile,
the Nebulas will be announced this weekend, and I'm on the shortlist with
"Lobsters", and the BSFA -- British Science Fiction Association --
are voting on their awards, and I'm on the shortlist with "Router".
Whee!)
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US military blocking medical aid for children in Iraq
Save the Children yesterday accused the US military of allowing children
to die after it refused to grant permission for a plane loaded with
medical supplies to land in northern Iraq.
As a team of Oxfam engineers took off from Manston airport in Kent with
tonnes of water sanitation equipment bound for southern Iraq, Save the
Children said it had been trying for more than a week to fly in enough
medical supplies to treat 40,000 people and emergency feeding kits for
malnourished children.
The US military has said the charity cannot fly aid supplies into the
cities of Arbil and Mosul until the area is safe. But Rob MacGillivray,
Save the Children's emergency programme manager, said the UN had already
declared it safe.
Note for US readers:
Save the Children
is one of the largest British disaster relief charities. They're really
angry, accusing the US military of violations of the Geneva conventions
over their refusal to allow aid supplies into Arbil and Mosul. These
guys do not throw that kind of accusation around lightly -- they have
a major public reputation to preserve and the blowback if they made
baseless allegations would be very damaging. Nor do they have a partisan
axe to grind over aid to Iraq in particular -- they're active just about
everywhere.
Feorag's comment -- "what's the matter, are the military afraid it'll
dent sales by US pharmaceutical companies?"
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