Human Shields check out facilities at Food Silo in Baghdad

Human Shields Deployed to Food Storage Facility
Wednesday February 25, 2003

A group of 12 Human Shields will be deployed to a food storage and processing facility today.

The group will leave this afternoon for the Taije plant in the North of Baghdad.

The large food storage plant processes grain and rice. It is a substantial employer of local people, and is very important to the local economy.

It be crucial to sustaining any standard of living during a US-led bombing campaign.

A group of human shields will remain at the site until the threat of war has passed.