BBC News: UN official blasts Iraq sanctions - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/183499.stm
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. |
Iraq Crisis Debate in the House of Commons, Britain - http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/cm981125/debtext/81125-07.htm
A reproduced debate in full from the British government proceedings. |
London Times: Murder of British Tourists and Iraqis - http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/1999/msg00178.html
Reproduced article equating the well reported murder of Britons abroad as callous as the bombing or Iraq by UK planes. |
Sanctions on Iraq - a Fair Penalty? - http://www.casi.org.uk/events/mukhtar.html
Precis of Sabah Al-Mukhtar's talk at Cambridge University, UK |
UN: Concern at interruption in the flow of Iraqi oil for export - http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/background/latest/wu990302.html
"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." |