Description | Folder of presscuttings, digest bulletins and telex reports on relations between Iraq and the USA during the Second Gulf War, including a large colour feature from the Independent on Sunday (8 December 1991) on 'How Bush lost the Gulf War', a Wall Street Journal article on the US navy attacks on Iranian oil rigs in April 1988 with other press reports on the US arms embargo against Iran, reports of the statements of Mohamed al-Mashat - Iraqi ambassador to Washington - and other diplomatic discussions following the invasion of Kuwait, assessments by the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers of Hussein's attitude towards America and the political and economic consequences of war, a photocopied article from 'Jeune Afrique' magazine (10-16 October 1990) analysing the exchanges between Saddam Hussein and US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, in July 1990, as well as other presscuttings discussing Glaspie's role in events, an article by Robert Fisk in The Independent (26 September 1990) on the possible consequences of American military intervention in the Gulf, |