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JOHN QUIGLEY, quigley.2@osu.edu
     Professor of Law, Ohio State University. Specialist in the Mideast and in international law. "There is no basis in any Security Council resolution for unilateral military action by the U.S."

BARBARA LUBIN, meca@igc.org, http://www.igc.org/meca
     Executive director, Middle East Children's Alliance

JEFF GUNTZEL, kkelly@igc.org, http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw
     Traveled recently to Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness, delivering medicine in open violation of the sanctions. Another delegation now on its way to Iraq is reachable via above number.

RANIA MASRI, rmasri@ncsu.edu, http://www.leb.net/iac
     Coordinator, Iraq Action Coalition

GORDON CLARK, paexec@igc.org, http://www.peace-action.org
     Executive Director, PeaceAction

EDMUND GHAREEB
     Co-author of "War in the Gulf 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications"

LAURIE KING-IRANI, merip@igc.org, http://www.merip.org
     Editor, Middle East Report

HUSSEIN IBISH, hibish@adc.org, http://www.adc.org
     Media director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

ERIK GUSTAFSON, epicenter@igc.org
     Formerly an American soldier in the Gulf with 864th Engineer Battalion, Gustafson is now executive director of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center.

DR. PETER PELLETT, http://www.fao.org/giews,
pellett@nutrition.umass.edu
     Professor of Nutrition at University of Massachusetts and a team leader for several Food and Agricultural Organization missions, Dr. Pellett is an expert on the sanctions.

RICHARD GARFIELD, rmg3@columbia.edu
     Professor of clinical international nursing at Columbia University; chairperson of the human rights committee of the American Public Health Association. Garfield has studied the effects of the sanctions on Iraq. He is leading a forum with "oil-for-food" U.N. workers on Monday.

>>> See http://www.accuracy.org/iraq for a time-line of the crisis.

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