Joanna
Leigh Meyers wrote:
>Iraq Net :: Iraq's Online News
>http://www.iraq.net/displayarticle6201.html
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>US families of dead raise 600,000 dollars for Fallujah refugees
>Posted by: Editor on Friday, December 24, 2004
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>LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Families of US troops killed in the offensive on the Iraqi city of
>Fallujah are to travel to Jordan next week with 600,000 dollars worth of humanitarian aid for
>refugees of the attack.
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>The November assault on Fallujah left 71 US military dead, according to the families, and
>the Iraqi government said more than 2,000 Iraqis were killed.
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>"This delegation is a way for me to express my sympathy and support for the Iraqi people,"
>said Rosa Suarez of Escondido in California.
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>"The Iraq war took away my son's life, and it has taken away the lives of so many innocent
>Iraqis. It is time to stop the killing and to help the children of Iraq," she added in a statement
>released by the families.
>The families said with peace groups, physicians' organisations and relatives of the September
>11, 2001 attacks victims, they raised 100,000 dollars in an internet appeal. Humanitarian groups
>such as Middle East Children's Alliance and Operation USA contributed 500,000 dollars worth
>of medical supplies.
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>The families are to fly to Amman on December 26 and hand over the supplies to humanitarian
>and medical workers there.
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