CNN.com - Complex found bulging with food in hungry city - Apr. 3, 2003 Distribution center was used by U.N. oil-for-food program
From Mike Boettcher
CNN
Thursday, April 3, 2003 Posted: 4:29 PM EST (2129 GMT)


BASRA, Iraq (CNN) -- 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.