More Aid Reaches the Port of Umm al Qasr

In the third delivery of aid to Iraq’s main port, the British ship Sir Percival brought about 200 tons of rice and tea into Umm al Qasr on a day residents said they ordinarily would have been expected to celebrate an anniversary of the Baath Party.

The British said the food will be taken to a storage facility and then distributed to areas identified as the most needy.

But some local dockworkers said they were frustrated at the slow pace of aid delivery to Umm al Qasr, noting that they have unloaded two shipments from the Sir Galahad but that food has not arrived at their homes yet.