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Transcript: Analysis: International flights into Iraq
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- October 12, 2000
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Analysis: International flights into Iraq
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
International flights into Iraq have risen dramatically over the past
two weeks. About a dozen nations, including Russia, France and Turkey,
have authorized flights into Baghdad. Most of those flights were
approved by the United Nations committee that supervises economic
sanctions against Iraq. But Iraq's government considers the flights
a direct challenge to the sanctions. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.
MIKE SHUSTER reporting:
The three chartered flights into Baghdad yesterday carried similar
cargo--two tons of medicine and gifts from ...