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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Iraqi Media Gets It! |
| 2004-05-18 |
| At the end of today’s press conference Q    (Through interpreter.) Mr. Kimmitt, Dr. Sabiah Jabil al- Khabi (ph) from al-Wasat (ph) and al-Hayat Iraqi newspaper. My question is that there are nowadays more than 3,000 humanitarian organizations in Iraq. But its too dangerous for the UN. Or maybe there’s not been enough bribes. Why you’re not trying to shed light on these organizations so that you can know what is the nature of these organizations and what are the foreign forces or the foreign organizations that are supporting these organizations? They might just form a threat. Why not trying to investigate regarding the nature of these organizations?            MR. SENOR: We have a number of NGOs that are working in Iraq with the coalition. USAID, for instance, has multiple relationships with various humanitarian organizations and NGOs. As to any that may be posing a terror threat inside Iraq, obviously we’d rely on coalition and Iraqi intelligence services and resources to make that determination. And, obviously, any foreign fighters that come into the country, we try to monitor quite closely. You’ve heard us from this podium talk quite consistently that foreign fighters pose a significant threat inside Iraq. It is something we’re deeply concerned about. We have sent very strong messages to governments whose countries border Iraq -- like the Iranian government, like the Syrian government -- about foreign fighters coming in from their countries. So we take the threat from foreign fighters quite seriously, and if you have any information, of course, that we don’t, we would certainly welcome it.The ICRC perhaps? |
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