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Article: Some U.N. Relief Workers Return to Baghdad
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 23, 1998
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Some U.N. relief workers evacuated to Jordan in the U.S.-British
bombardment against Iraq last week returned to Baghdad Wednesday
evening.
But the number of the returned relief workers is not immediately
known.
U.N. sources here told Xinhua that more U.N. humanitarian staff
will come back in the coming few days.
There were around 200 U.N. relief workers in Baghdad before the
U.S. and Britain air raids, which lasted four days with a declared
aim to retaliate Iraq's defiance of U.N. weapons inspections.
The weapons inspections, which began in 1991 after the Gulf War
sparked by Iraq's invasion ...