World Vision Developed Contingency Plans for Iraq Aid Strategy; Situation in Mosul 'Clearly Unstable'; Baghdad Convoy Considered.

PR Newswire | April 18, 2003 | Copyright

AMMAN, Jordan -- AMMAN, Jordan, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Ongoing violence in Mosul has led World Vision to re-think its strategy for bringing humanitarian aid into Iraq.

The international Christian aid organization had planned to send an assessment team to Mosul this weekend, but two days of riots resulting in nearly 20 deaths have caused the agency to make contingency plans.

"The security situation in Mosul remains clearly unstable," says Ton van Zutphen, World Vision's relief manager based in Amman. "We recognize that thousands of Iraqi people are in ...

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