News and Media

BBC News: UN official blasts Iraq sanctions - The man responsible for co-ordinating the Iraqi oil-for-food deal says sanctions are killing children, destroying society and probably strengthening the country's leadership.

List of Iraqi Sanction News Reports - Over one hundred links to articles on Iraq with most recent ones, first.

American Aid Groups Defy Iraqi Sanctions (CNN) - Risking as much as 12 years in prison and $500,000 in fines, doctors from two U.S. based groups traveled to Iraq and donated $50,000 worth of medicines and books. (April 5, 1999)

London Times: Murder of British Tourists and Iraqis - Reproduced article equating the well reported murder of Britons abroad as callous as the bombing or Iraq by UK planes. (March 5, 1999)

UN: Concern at interruption in the flow of Iraqi oil for export - "Given the depressed price of oil and the state of Iraq's oil industry, there's currently a $900 million gap between the revenue expected and what's needed to fund the humanitarian programme. This shortfall is already cutting deeply into the allocations for water and sanitation, agriculture and education." (March 2, 1999)

Iraq Crisis Debate in the House of Commons, Britain - A reproduced debate in full from the British government proceedings. (November 25, 1998)

CNN - Sick Iraqi girl headed for help - Magnusson, founder of the Icelandic charity Peace 2000 Institute, said Amal's illness exemplifies "what the sanctions have been doing to the people of Iraq." (December 28, 1997)

Sanctions on Iraq - a Fair Penalty? - Precis of Sabah Al-Mukhtar's talk at Cambridge University, UK (November 26, 1997)