A giant food distribution complex seized Wednesday by U.S. and British forces in this city grappling with hunger contained massive amounts of food.
A walk through only about 20 percent of the warehouses in the complex revealed that tens of thousands of tons of supplies -- including huge quantities of baby milk -- were being stored in Iraq's second-largest city, which has been wracked by a food shortage.
The biggest challenge for humanitarians is that the leader of whatever regime has to be humanitarian himself. Otherwise, no amount of good work will find its way to the needy. The toppling of Saddam is the most humanitarian thing that these people can hope for.
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