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On Thursday, British and US officials are to meet to discuss the current economic sanctions against Iraq which have been in effect since the gulf war.
Current economic sanctions are a blanket approach, and critics claim that the sanctions are responsible for the deaths of more than one million iraqi civilians.
There is a movement toward implementing so called "smart sanctions," which would focus on arms control and allow civilian goods into the country.
People around the world are condemning the recent bombings. Chicago based Voices in the Wilderness notes that air raids on Iraq are quite common and states that since December 1998, 317 Iraqis were killed in US/UK bombings and 936 were injured.
Mexico is questioning the timing of the bombings coinciding with the meeting between Mexican President Fox and US President Bush. The political weekly Proceso said Mr. Fox was trying to show the world how modern Mexico is and the eyes of the media were turned to Iraq instead.
In response to their support for the air raids Iraq cut trade relations with Poland and Canada.