| Description | Folder of presscuttings and telex reports relating to the Second Gulf War during August 1990. These include news of preparations by Iraqi citizens for US or Israeli air attacks, the gathering of Saudi, US, British and French forces in the Gulf, reports of how Saddam is being perceived in the region as an Arab hero resisting western intimidation, exchanges of rhetoric between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the appointment of nine Iraqi officers to run Kuwait, details of the high number of foreigners living and working in Kuwait at the time of the invasion, descriptions of daily life - including looting - in Kuwait under the Iraqi occupation, the text of various statements from Iraqi and Iranian leaders on the situation in Kuwait (Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB), Middle East, August 1990), excerpts from the text of the Iraqi Revolution Command Council statement on the Kuwait annexation read out on Iraqi radio (8 August 1990), a Wall Street Journal article on counterintelligence reports that Iraq strengtened its links with the Abu Nidal and Hezbollah groups before invading Kuwait, the text of a press conference given by Saddam to Austrian reporters (25 August 1990), a newspaper illustration of 'Iraq's revised map of Kuwait', and a bulletin from the Central Bank of Malta (13-19 August 1990) referring to the effect of economic sanctions on business at Malta's drydocks. |