First U.N. aid trickles into Iraq

AMMAN, Jordan -- The first wartime U.N. humanitarian aid, a few truckloads of food and water, trickled across Iraq's borders from Turkey and Kuwait, U.N. agencies reported Monday. But officials said aid organizations and the U.S. military remain wary of working together on relief operations for Iraq.

Three trucks carrying 84.7 tons of dried milk crossed from Turkey and were unloaded in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on Saturday, the U.N. World Food Program said in a delayed report.

Next, "we're preparing to move badly needed wheat flour later this week into the north," said Khaled Mansour, regional spokesman for the U.N. agency in Amman.

He said people in three autonomous Kurdish provinces of the north are believed to need food more urgently than people in the central government-controlled remainder of Iraq because they received only a month's rations before the 12-day-old war began, while Iraqis elsewhere got two months' rations.

In far southern Iraq on Monday, the first three vehicles carrying U.N. water managed to make deliveries from Kuwait to Umm Qasr.