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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=afodafro@scs-net.org href="mailto:afodafro@scs-net.org">ghassan
shahrour</A> </DIV>
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<DIV> Medics beg for help as Iraqis die needlessly </DIV></DIV>
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class=307095113-20102006><FONT face=Verdana>*</FONT></SPAN>Half of all deaths
preventable, say country's medics<BR><SPAN class=307095113-20102006><FONT
face=Verdana>*</FONT></SPAN>Reconstruction seen as disaster<BR><SPAN
class=307095113-20102006><FONT face=Verdana>*</FONT></SPAN>More than 2,000
doctors and nurses are killed<BR><SPAN class=307095113-20102006><FONT
face=Verdana>*</FONT></SPAN>18,000 more leave the nation<BR><SPAN
class=307095113-20102006><FONT face=Verdana>*</FONT></SPAN>Even the most basic
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