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BAGHDAD, iraq(AP) — An Iraqi who shot
his way into a United Nations building in
Baghdad on Wednesday said he wanted an end
to the international embargo against his coun
try and denied shooting the two people killed
during his takeover.
Two Food and Agriculture Organization
staffers were killed, and six people were serious
ly wounded, said Amir A. Kha I i 1, director of FAO
operations in Baghdad. He said the gunman held
a U.N. consultant hostage at the FAO building's
reception desk for more than two hours.
Khalil said the other wounded included two
U.N. staffers and four Iraqi government
guards. Aseventh casualty, a U.N. worker, was
hurt trying to jump from a window of the U.N.
Food and Agriculture Organization building,
Khalil said in a statement.
"The dead and wounded remained in the
corridor of the second floor for many hours,"
Khalil said. He identified the dead as Yusuf Ab-
dilleh, an administrative officer from Somali
and Marwewan Mohammed Hassan, a data
base operator from Iraq.
The gunman, Fowad Hussein Haydar, de
nied shooting anybody in an unusual press
conference given in a Baghdad police station
hours after the event.
"I haven't shot anyone. When 1 left the
building they told me two people were dead,"
Haydar said.
"True, I fired at random. But the operation
lasted more than two hours and there was
heavy fire," he said, referring to the gunfire
from Iraqi guards.
Haydar, 38, said his aim was to take Khalil
hostage and then negotiate his demands.
"The reason is the embargo, the death and
murder of thousands of Iraqi children and el
derly," he said. "1 wanted to relay a message, to
explain the tragedy."
Haydar said sanctions, which have impov
erished millions of Iraqis, have driven him to
the point of despair and warned that there are
millions of people like him in the country ready
to do the same.
The handcuffed Haydar appeared com
posed and peaceful. He stressed he was not re
cruited by any party to carry out his operation.
"I know 1 will be sentenced to death, but I
am not sorry," he said.
In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan condemned the attack.
"The secretary-general deeply deplores the
senseless loss of life of two FAO colleagues in
Baghdad," said U.N. deputy spokesperson Ma-
noel de Almeida e Silva.
The executive director of the U.N. Office of
the Iraq Program, Benon Sevan, said from New
York that the gunman first tried to enter the
U.N. compound at the Canal Hotel and was
turned away by security guards.
"Then he managed to enter the FAO offices
in Baghdad, and he took hostage about 50 peo
ple," Sevan said. "He had two machine guns
and made some demands.
"There were four demands, one being that
there should be regular flights between Am
man and Baghdad, the second being that all al
lied airstrikes should stop and that there
should be compensation for the victims of
sanctions and the fourth being that theresh
be a monument erected before theURli
quarters for the Iraqi children," Sevan sail
Sevan said Iraqi forces "have beenful
operative."
Khalil, the FAO representative, has 1»
among the most outspoken critics of theeh
of U.N. economic sanctions on ordinaryla
Khalil has pushed the sanctions comm:
to release holds on agricultural suppl
vaccines and irrigation equipmentthat
are crucial to helping Iraq feed itself,bol
members of the sanctions committee:
could have military uses. The United State!
been the most active among sanctions a
mittee members at blocking supplies to
Sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990imas
of Kuwait have crippled the Iraq economi
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