April 19, 2003
Bagdad Watch
Day by day the situation gets worse in Bagdad (and probably much of the rest of Iraq). As reported by BBC News:
The International Red Cross has urged US forces to restore the Iraqi capital's power supply and other basic services as the threat to public health grows daily.
Roland Huguenin-Benjamin of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told the BBC that less than half of the city's hospitals were functioning - the rest had been ransacked by looters.
in a further sign of chaos, looters can now be seen selling stolen weapons and ammunition - including Kalashnikov assault rifles - openly on the streets.
The UN children's fund Unicef says piles of rubbish are accumulating at the hospitals and up to 70% of patients at the children's hospital now have diarrhoea.It all speaks for itself. Ah, but Bechtel is riding in to clean up Rumsfeld's mess. Posted by Steve on April 19, 2003
