IRAQ AID

Asiatimes: Now, all Iraqis need food aid
ROME - The war in Iraq has made the entire population of 27 million people dependent on food aid, leaders of aid programs say. Before the war that the US and Britain launched March 20 to remove the Saddam Hussein regime, 60 percent of the population had depended entirely on food aid.

"Today, the lives of 100 percent of the Iraqi population, 27 million people, depend on the provision of monthly food rations," UNICEF chief representative in Iraq, Carel de Roy, told Inter Press Service in a telephone interview.