Lead-up to Evacuation

Still Just Fine
April 9, 2004

Greetings all,

Just a quick note to let you all know I am fine here and our neighborhood
is unusually deadly quiet. We are being cautious of course but our
neighbors and friends are checking in regularly. Tonight Sheila and I are
singing in the church choir. Have a blessed Easter weekend!

peace,

Le Anne
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Evacuations Begin
April 13, 2004
Hi everyone,

Most of the international humanitarian community here in Iraq has decided
to evacuate. We may still have an option to provide a violence-reducing
presence in other cities in the coming days, at which point we would move
our project there. Otherwise, we plan to depart to Jordan by this weekend
and stay for at least a week. There is a long backlog of humanitarian
workers and Iraqis trying to leave the country.

The consensus of the international humanitarian community about the
situation in Iraq is that aggressive U.S. military tactics in the past
week have escalated the violence, leaving many innocent civilians dead and
injured, has led to the increased threat against humanitarian workers in
particular. Statements such as Gen. Sanchez' vow to kill or capture Sadr
are not helpful in reducing violence or improving security in Iraq. Stay
tuned to the cpt website for our Urgent Action call-in to your members of
congress for the U.S. military to cease its 'offense strategies'in
military action, and I will try to pass along our latest release about the
massacre in Fallujah. Until Friday, you may contact our team via phone at:
1-914-822-9707 (is a U.S. cellphone which works in Iraq)
011-964-1-716-7163 office/house phone
011-790-1-33-9537 Iraqi cell phone

Please feel free to invite press contacts of yours to call for an interview.