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12-23-2004, 05:30 PM
Military Families & 9/11 Families Raise $500,000 for Falluja Refugees
(Ironic?)
A delegation of military family members whose sons died while fighting in the Iraq war will travel to Jordan from December 27, 2004 to January 4, 2005 to deliver $600,000 worth of humanitarian supplies for refugees from the U.S. attack on Falluja. [includes rush transcript]
The November attack, which virtually leveled the city and left some 2,000 Iraqis and 71 U.S. soldiers dead, also created thousands of refugees, who are living without adequate food, water, electricity and healthcare. Most of these refugees are children.
In an Internet appeal, the military family members, in collaboration with U.S. peace groups, physicians" organizations, and September 11 families, quickly raised $100,000 in donations. And humanitarian groups such as the Middle East Children"s Alliance and Operation USA contributed $500,000 worth of medical supplies.
* Adele Welty, lost her son Tim Welty on September 11. He was a New York City firefighter. She is leaving for the Iraq-Jordan border with a delegation that is delivering more than $500,000 in aid to refugees from Fallujah.
Transcript
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1541239
(Ironic?)
A delegation of military family members whose sons died while fighting in the Iraq war will travel to Jordan from December 27, 2004 to January 4, 2005 to deliver $600,000 worth of humanitarian supplies for refugees from the U.S. attack on Falluja. [includes rush transcript]
The November attack, which virtually leveled the city and left some 2,000 Iraqis and 71 U.S. soldiers dead, also created thousands of refugees, who are living without adequate food, water, electricity and healthcare. Most of these refugees are children.
In an Internet appeal, the military family members, in collaboration with U.S. peace groups, physicians" organizations, and September 11 families, quickly raised $100,000 in donations. And humanitarian groups such as the Middle East Children"s Alliance and Operation USA contributed $500,000 worth of medical supplies.
* Adele Welty, lost her son Tim Welty on September 11. He was a New York City firefighter. She is leaving for the Iraq-Jordan border with a delegation that is delivering more than $500,000 in aid to refugees from Fallujah.
Transcript
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1541239