KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: George W. Bush takes the presidential oath 10 years after his father mobilized American forces in the Persian Gulf War. Although forbidden to fly to Iraq, U.S. delegations have been making regular visits, not to heal old wounds, but to vent new ones. CNN's Jane Arraf reports.</s>JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ten years after the Gulf War, Americans are again landing in Iraq. But these are on a humanitarian mission. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, frequent visitor to Baghdad, says he hopes this 11th year of sanctions on Iraq would be the last.</s>RAMSEY CLARK, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: There's been great progress made in ending the sanctions and now if this new U.S. presidential administration doesn't prevent it, we'll have an end to the sanctions very, very shortly, I think.</s>ARRAF: It was the second Royal Jordanian flight of the day bringing Americans, who are generally forbidden by the U.S. government from coming to Iraq. Along with Jordan's health minister and a group of doctors, a coalition of U.S. peace groups came bearing medicine.</s>JAMES JENNINGS, CONSCIENCE INTERNATIONAL: We have $150,000 worth, which is not enough for all the Iraqi people, but our goal is to show that we want to help and this Baghdad airlift is an effort to get two things. We, it's about the Iraqi children and it's about the American conscience.</s>ARRAF: They weren't the first American group to fly aid to Iraq since the Gulf War. That barrier was broken by the charity AmeriCares two years ago. And it wasn't exactly the sanctions-busting flight the group wanted. The Jordanian government insisted on getting U.N. approval for the flight and for each passenger. For the Iraqi government, the publicity value of U.S. activists arriving in Baghdad was worth far more than the medicine. Jane ARRAF, CNN, Baghdad.
Humanitarians Fly Aid Into Iraq