Iraqi Mother with her terminally ill child in the main pediatric hospital in Baghdad.  UNICEF has reported that from 1990 to 1999, over 500,000 infants and babies have been killed by the U.S. led sanctions.  Many of the young children die from easily curable diseases (giardiasis, disenterry, respiratory infections) but Iraq has not been allowed (because of U.S. objections) to import enough medicines to treat these diseases, nor has Iraq been allowed to fully repair its water treatment system (intentionally bombed by the U.S. and its allies during the Gulf War). (photo, Karen Norder, 1/00)