| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to general conditions in Iraq during the Second Gulf War, and people's attitude towards damage. These include a report on the Manal Younis Abdul-Razaqh - president of the General Federation of Iraqi Women - speaking on the effects of the blockade on women and families, a Daily Telegraph article (22 March 1991) on primitive living conditions endured after the war, several reports of an eight storey building collapse in Baghdad, an article by Patrick Cockburn in the Independent on life in Mosul in November 1990, pages of handwritten notes by Crusoe on the financial and economic situation, details of food rationing and penalties for grain hoarding, a large Arab News feauture (20 September 1990) on Iraq under Saddam, a final feature from Baghdad by Patrick Cockburn in the Independent (10 February 1991) on life in Iraq and the moral duties of journalists in reporting objectively, a short piece on the British Club in Baghdad, another story about the 'Black Palm Gang' hoax, an article on American truck driver William Brown who travelled to Iraq to speak to Saddam Hussein, several articles in which journalists talk to citizens of Baghdad and other places in Iraq about their attitudes towards America and the coalition against Iraq, their experience of bombing, casualties, and views about Saddam. Other articles discuss propaganda, Saddam's attempts to rebuild Babylon and portray himself as the new Nebuchadnezzar, the use of archaeological antiquities such as the Ur ziggurat as shields for Iraqi military sites, and John Simpson's feature on life in Baghdad, 'Down the Barrel of a Gun' (Guardian,15-16 September 1990). |