----- Original Message ----- From: Institute for Public Accuracy <ipamedia at nationalpress.com> To: Institute for Public Accuracy <institute at igc.org> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: New Congressional Visit to Iraq
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> PM Friday, September 27, 2002
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> Interviews Available:
> New Congressional Visit to Iraq
>
> BERT SACKS, http://www.endiraqsanctions.org
> Currently in Baghdad, Sacks is accompanying Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash.,
> who has begun a visit to Iraq along with two other members of Congress.
> Sacks is an activist with the Interfaith Network of Concern for the People
> of Iraq, based in Seattle.
>
> Also in Baghdad at: ivoices at uruklink.org
>
> RAMZI KYSIA and DANNY MULLER of the Iraq Peace Team,
> http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org
>
> BARBARA LUBIN, director of the Middle East Children's Alliance,
> http://www.mecaforpeace.org
>
> LEAH WELLS, http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/leahiraq
> Wells is peace education coordinator of the Nuclear Age Peace
> Foundation.
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>
> Voices in the Wilderness is a humanitarian group opposed to sanctions and
> bombing of Iraq. Members of the organization are available for interviews
> in the United States: KATHY KELLY and JEFF GUNTZEL, info at vitw.org,
> http://www.vitw.org
>
> JIM JENNINGS, jimjennings at earthlink.net
> President of Conscience International, a humanitarian aid organization,
> Jennings recently returned from Iraq.
>
> REV. GRAYLAN S. HAGLER, gshagler at earthlink.net
> Pastor at the Plymouth Congregational Church UCC, in Washington, D.C.,
> Hagler said today: "This administration has moved to one war issue after
> another, hiding its failures on the domestic front. The administration has
> a hard time articulating so it lacks any moral clarity. Anyone looking for
> rational articulation is left at a loss since the administration cannot
> necessarily admit the real reasons for wanting war."
>
> GORDON CLARK, pledgecoordinator at starpower.net, http://www.peacepledge.org
> National coordinator of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, Clark is a former
> executive director of Peace Action. He noted that calls from the public to
> Congress are overwhelmingly against the bombing of Iraq. Clark said today:
> "Although he claims it to be part of his war on terror, Bush's
unquenchable
> desire for war against Iraq will result in the deaths of thousands of
> innocent Iraqi civilians -- probably many times the number of people
killed
> in the horror of September 11."
>
> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
> Sam Husseini, (202) 332-5055; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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