Iraqi-Americans to Send Aid to Baghdad
<i> Associated Press</i>
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — An Iraqi-American group announced plans Thursday to send a delegation with $200,000 in medical supplies to Iraq this month to alleviate shortages there.
“The situation is so acute that surgeries--amputations--are being performed without anesthesia,†said Paul Vincent, president of Victims of War.
The suburban Detroit area is home to a 50,000-member Chaldean community, a Christian group from Iraq.
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