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| U.N. Designates $395 million in Goods for Iraq |
| 2003-04-16 |
| The United Nations said Tuesday it has identified $395 million in priority humanitarian goods that can be shipped to Iraq by the May 12 deadline adopted last month by the Security Council. Using the Oil-for-Food money that belongs to the people of Iraq in the first place. Most of the goods were in transit when the war started and will be routed to Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Iran for transshipment to Iraq, said the U.N. office that runs the oil-for-food humanitarian program. The priority items include $181.7 million worth of food, $103.8 million of agricultural goods and $46.1 million of medicine and health supplies. In an effort to speed aid to Iraq, the Security Council on March 28 authorized Secretary-General Kofi Annan to review nearly $16 billion in contracts already approved under the program and give priority to those that could be used immediately for humanitarian relief in Iraq. The U.N. program, which uses Iraq's oil revenues primarily to pay for food and medical supplies, How about returning all the unspent money to the Iraqi Interim Authority? Can't wait to hear Dominque argue against that. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 *nods* The big blackout in the 1960s (1967?) kicked all but one power plant off-line. They needed power from it to start up the others, which is what took so long to restore power. Standard operating procedure for nuclear plants is that if offsite power is lost, they power down ASAP. Good reason to have variety in your power mix. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-16 14:12:59 |
| #4 Power Grid in Baghdad unlinked? General Franks knows the Control-X Fight the Power trick. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-04-16 12:25:30 |
| #3 More on power and water: "The HOC uses a color-coded system to rate the humanitarian situation in Iraq's major cities. Red signifies the most dire, yellow a need for improvement, and green relatively normal. Umm Qasr rates green in both electricity and water. Karbala rates green in power, yellow in water. Baghdad, Basra and Najaf score yellow in both categories. Kirkuk is still in the red zone, though Brooks said power and water systems were working in most other areas of the north. About 40 percent of the capital gets power at least part of the day, Kille said. Brooks said Wednesday that Basra's water system was functioning at about 60 percent of the needed capacity, the same as before the war. Initially, power was restored in Iraq's cities through portable generators, and water was brought in by aid workers. But the focus has now turned to repairing the infrastructure so towns are self-sufficient." |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-16 11:47:35 |
| #2 Centcom: "So, as an example, currently the power station in An Nasiriyah is mechanically ready to resume function. However, it requires what is essentially a jump-start from another power grid in order to get the generators within it operational. This jump-start will happen we believe within the next several days from Al-Basra. The two of them are connected by power lines. The lines in fact are down right now, and when the lines have been restored and repaired between the two cities, power can move from Basra to Nasiriyah and begin the function there. A similar process is ongoing in Al-Zubair, As-Samawa, Ad Diwaniyah, al-Hillah, Najaf, Karbala, and of course Baghdad." Anyone else here ever play Simcity(tm)? Sounds kinda familiar, no? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-16 10:06:45 |
| #1 liberalhawk: Yah, but I get so frustrated at ALWAYS running in the red that I just have to send down tornadoes, fires and aliens. |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-16 11:27:45 |