Red Cross pulls out of Baghdad, Basra

[jenk]

because you know, things are getting so much better.....

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/256517|top|11-08-2003::08:30|reuters.html

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes and armored vehicles battered suspected guerrilla hideouts in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Saturday after six soldiers were killed in the shooting down of a Black Hawk helicopter.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, fearful for the safety of its staff operating in Iraq, announced it was temporarily shutting its offices in Baghdad and Basra.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Bump with BBC link

From the BBC online
Dated Saturday Noivember 8 12:42 GMT (4:42 am PST)

Red Cross cuts Iraq operations

The International Committee of the Red Cross is temporarily ending its operations in much of Iraq amid concerns over the safety of its staff.
ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal said their Baghdad and Basra offices were closing given "the extremely dangerous and volatile situation" in the country.
A car bomb at the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad last month killed 12 people.
It was the first suicide attack on the neutral Swiss-based ICRC in its 140-year history.

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[jpgray]

2. The implications here are significant--change in security

The situation must have become even more unstable in Iraq. How that could be possible, I leave up to you.