EU to stop funding emergency aid in Iraq next year

mkpdavies · 10-12-2004, 09:30 AM

http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/041209190122.5xaod3m6

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But the move immediately came under fire from the French non-governmental organization Premiere Urgence (First Emergency), which is financed by Echo and operates in the area of the restive Sunni bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad, distributing medicines and equipment to hospitals.
"We will have to stop our operations if the Commission does not reconsider its decision," Premiere Urgence spokesman David Martinez said.
"As long as there is fighting, there are humanitarian needs. We are not in a reconstruction phase, my sense is that we are heading toward civil war," he added.

How can you reconstruct when you are still in the middle of a war zone? Oh I get it, build a house, charge some money, blow up the house, repeat.
A nice little earner for someone, funded by you know who!

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