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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (111030)	10/24/2000 8:24:48 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>> The UN Security Council has dropped these sanctions, though. Absolutely not true, William. The US insists on reviewing each and every scrap of anything Iraq attempts to buy with its oil money, especially medicine and medical instruments. The US uses that as an opportunity to block anything that can improve Iraq's infrastructure beyond bare subsistence. The US spends a $billion a year (I guess this year it will be $2 billion) to make sure the people of Iraq are so busy just surviving that they can't aspire to anything else. A very despicable policy, I think. The US currently is blocking approx $4 billion in contracts which include equipment for generating electricity, water purification, vaccines, and others.