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BAGHDAD -- As part of a U.S. and Iraqi stability and support operation, several truck loads of humanitarian assistance rolled out from a forward operating base in southern Baghdad to provide Horajeb residents with basic food items, medical supplies, and recreational items Aug. 17. Two transport trucks left before dawn, as a 29-vehicle convoy passed through the southernmost limit of the Al Rashid district, and made its way along streets with names like Toyota, Chicken, and Bulls that the U.S. Army has named to help guide American soldiers through the often sign-less streets they have become so familiar with over...

Other group helping in Iraq not prosecuted Friday, March 07, 2003By Renee K. Gadoua The same federal act used to indict three Central New Yorkers accused of illegally sending money to Iraq has not been enforced against at least a dozen local residents who openly violated U.S. law by traveling there. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act authorizes U.S. sanctions against Iraq. Four Muslims, including three Onondaga County residents, were indicted Feb. 26 on charges that include violating the act by using the Syracuse-based charity Help the Needy to send money to Iraq without a license. About 600 people have...

Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (California) is reported to have given a letter to antiwar activists to facilitate their delivery of aid to the 'other side' in Fallujah, Iraq.The leftist online publication Peace and Resistance, in an article published January 1, said that Rep. Waxman had written a letter addressed to the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan to help ease transit through Customs of $600,000 worth of medical supplies and cash collected by the anti-American groups Code Pink and Global Exchange. According to the groups' leader, Medea Benjamin, the aid is destined for the "other side" in Fallujah.The letter was being...

My son is being treated for leukemia. We recive a lot of extra medical supplies. We are looking for somewhere to donate them.Maybe an overseas ministry. We will pay for shipping. Any ideas from my FR friends would help!

August 3, 2003Dear [Coop], Greetings from Iraq! We are suffering from an erratic email system, so I will attempt to send this letter via snail mail and then email if the opportunity ever presents itself. I appreciate your interest in helping us help the local villagers here in northern Iraq. Your selected donations were right on target, and we sincerely appreciate the goodies, too. Of course the Gatorade was the first to go, anything to add variety to our only beverage of water is a treat. Please pass on my thanks to your nephew and your wife and daughter. We...