| Description | Folder of papers relating to Iraq's relations with the USA during the First Gulf War up until the invasion of Kuwait. Topics covered include US business delegations and contracts in Iraq, details of Iraq's diplomatic strategy for dealing with the USA and western Europe, discussion of US support for an independent Kurdistan, press reports of US Navy attacks on Iranian oil rigs in April 1988, a Baghdad Observer front page picture showing US Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld with Saddam Hussein (21 December 1985) and a press release from the US Department of Agriculture on exports of wheat flour to Iraq. |