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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (119232)11/11/2003 1:53:46 PM
From: boris_a  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
> how the Palestinians got backpacks and sneakers ... while the Eretreans were lucky to get beans and cooking oil

I'd never claim the Red Cross being an all just institution.
But to conclude that there's a (hidden) political agenda?
Because we had to suffer the whole Jessica Lynch soap, is there an US agenda of lying?
It's always easy to discredit the hard and dangerous work of others.

Anyway, my point was the similarity of the situation today in Iraq and the historical precedence of the French in Algeria.