1995 (IRAQ AND CHEMICAL WARFARE REVELATIONS THAT IRAQ HAD TESTED WMD CHEMICALS ON HUMAN BEINGS) Mr Schiff, reporting Mr Ritter's disclosures, said: "Unscom inspectors also came up with evidence suggesting that Iraq carried out biological weapons tests on human beings in 1995." No details are available about this claim. It is not known, for instance, if prisoners of war were involved in the alleged test. "Ritter also discovered that Iraq had deliberately reported an exaggerated number of chemical bombs that it had used in the [1991 Gulf] War. The reason: so that Baghdad could hide thousands of such bombs and seven tons of chemical components."- "Ritter: Baghdad 'possesses three nuclear bombs' ," by Christopher Walker, Times of London, 9/10/98
(*My note : A correction for the clip I gave you : I am pretty sure the Iraqis claimed they used these chemical bombs in he Iran-Iraq War, which is also known as the Gulf War, and not in the later 1991 Gulf War with the US.)
U.S. CONGRESSMEN TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN BAGHDAD
For more information, please contact:
In Baghdad:
Bert Sacks or Shakir Al-Khafaji - Al-Mansour Hotel
tel. (964-1) 537-3328
ivoices@uruklink.net
In Basra (Saturday evening & Sunday daytime ONLY, 28-29 Sept):
Bert Sacks or Shakir Al-Khafaji - Sheraton Hotel
tel. (964-4) 212-001
In USA (Detroit):
Mohammad Al-Omari
LIFE for Relief and Development
tel. 248-424-7493
mail@faair.org
In USA (Seattle):
Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq & Interfaith Network of Concern Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation
tel. 206-789-5565
info@endiraqsanctions.org
WHEN: Monday, September 30th; 10am Three United States' Congressmen currently on a humanitarian fact-finding mission in Iraq, announced plans to hold a press conference to discuss their trip on Monday, September 30th, at 10am, at the Rostomeya Sewage Treatment Plant, south of Baghdad. The lack of access to safe drinking water, caused in part by the failure of facilities such as Rostomeya, has been a contributing factor in Iraq's humanitarian crisis.
The delegation of American legislators are in Iraq to gather information about Iraq's humanitarian crisis, and to help convince Iraqi officials of the necessity to allow immediate and unfettered access to UN weapons inspectors in order to avoid another war. The delegation includes, Rep. David Bonior (D-MI), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA).
During their trip, the delegation scheduled meetings with UNICEF, UNOHCI - the UN Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, as well as with Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, and Naji Sabri, Iraq's Foreign Minister, among others.
The Congressmen also scheduled visits to hospitals in Baghdad and Basra, the "Sindibad" Children's Diarrhea Clinic in Basra, and a visit to al-Jumariyyah, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Basra.