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Event:
News conference on Iraq Crisis and Sanctions

Time:
10:00 a.m. Today (Nov. 17)

Location:
NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING, 13th FLOOR, LISAGOR ROOM Washington, D.C.

Details:
Speakers will include:

RICHARD GARFIELD, 212-305-3248, 301-649-5179, rmg3@columbia.edu
Garfield is professor of clinical international nursing at Columbia University. On Sunday, he received the international award from the Physicians Forum, an affiliate of the American Public Health Association, for his work on the effects of sanctions.

JON STRANGE, 202-347-0020, 614-421-1269
At the historic "town hall" meeting in Columbus, Ohio, last February, Jon Strange asked Secretary of State Albright about double standards. She publicly promised that she would explain U.S. policy to him for "50 minutes" -- but to this day has declined to do so.

KATHY KELLY, c/o Voices in the Wilderness, 773-784-8065
Kelly is coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, which has sent 17 delegations to Iraq to challenge the sanctions by bringing medicine to Iraq in open violation of U.S. law. She will speak at this news conference by phone from Iraq.

ERIC GUSTAFSON, 202-543-6176, epicenter@igc.org
Gustafson is executive director of Education for Peace in Iraq. He was a U.S. soldier in the Gulf with the 864th Engineer Battalion.

SIMONA SHARONI, 202-895-4927, 202-723-3770, ssharon@american.edu
Sharoni is professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University.

ANDY SHALLAL, 202-835-2280 or 703-379-7173
An Iraqi-American who lives in Washington, D.C., Shallal is a businessman who has family in Iraq.

-- Also, see: http://www.accuracy.org/iraq   For more information, contact the Institute for Public Accuracy: Jenifer Dixon or Sam Husseini, 202-347-0020 or 202-332-5055

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