Page 6 WORLD Thursday, Junes,) THE BATTALION Gunman kills two, wounds six in U.N. building shootin; • Listen for deta Veterina 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 CTe>e>k‘i