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IRAQ UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN: Military | Opposition | Sanctions

THIS PAGE: Background | Books | Campaigns | Oil for food | War compensation

RELATED PAGE: The fall of Saddam Hussein 

BACKGROUND

Iraq documents
Official documents relating to sanctions and other issues

Sanctions against Iraq
Up-to-date reports and documents relating to sanctions (Global Policy Forum)

Life and death in Iraq
Report attempting to gauge the effect of sanctions on Iraqi citizens, especially children ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11 May, 1999)

Rogue States  
Noam Chomsky: "The concept of 'rogue state' plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis. The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example." ( Z Magazine, April 1998)

Imposing international sanctions against Iraq 
Legal and military aspects, by Richard E. Hull ( Institute for National Strategic Studies, March 1997)

Iraq under sanctions  
The main issues, with an interactive map ( Out There News)

Working with the UN in Iraq
by Dr Charles Reed (CAABU Focus, July 2000)

OIL FOR FOOD  

Detailed information about the oil for food programme is available from the website of the UN Office of the Iraq Programme. It includes the following ...

Latest news
Frequently updated reports on the programme

Basic statistics 
Contracts received, approved, on hold and delivered.

Oil for food at a glance
A summary of the programme

Chronology of the programme

Reports of the Secretary-General

Security Council Resolutions
Relating to the oil for food programme

WAR COMPENSATION 

UN Compensation Commission
This is the body which oversees compensation payments to victims of the invasion and occupation of Kuwait. Website includes:

Gulf war reparations may take Iraq more than a century to pay
The Guardian, 16 June, 2000

Damage claims spiral into the realm of the futile
The Guardian, 1 August, 2000

A debt of dishonour  
A quarter of Iraqi oil and petroleum revenue goes not to food or medicine, but to compensation payments. By Alain Gresh (Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2000) 

CAMPAIGNS 

Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq
Site includes many useful links

Voices in the Wilderness  
"A campaign to end the economic sanctions against the people of Iraq" (US-based)

Campaign to End Sanctions on Iraq  
(Peace Action)

Anti-Sanctions WebRing  
Links to individuals, groups, and organisations

Mariam Appeal 
Campaign founded by the British Member of Palriament, George Galloway

Iraq Action Coalition 
(Lebanon-based)

SPECIAL REPORTS

The following compilations of articles and documents on the conflict with Iraq are regularly updated:

The Guardian

Financial Times

Washington Post

ABC News

US State Department 

Global Policy Forum 

John Pilger
(His films and articles)

Nuclear Control Institute  


BOOKS

From amazon.com (click here for amazon.co.uk)

Iraq Under Siege
Anthony Arnove, Ali Abunimah (Eds). Paperback

The Impact of Sanctions on Iraq: The Children Are Dying 
Ramsey Clark. Paperback

Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy
Richard Haass (Editor), Council on Foreign Relations. Paperback, 1998

Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
Khidr Hamzah, et al. Hardcover, 2000

BOOKS

From amazon.co.uk (click here for amazon.com)

Iraq Under Siege 
Anthony Arnove (Editor). Paperback, 2000

Sanctions on Iraq: background, consequences and strategies 
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. Paperback, 2000

The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Growing Crisis in Global Security 
Richard Butler. Hardcover, 2000

Saddam Hussein: the Politics of Revenge 
Said Aburish. Paperback, 2001

Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein 
Andrew Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn. Paperback, 2000

Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
Khidr Hamzah, Jeff Stein. Hardcover, 2000

  

  

Last revised on 07 June, 2003