| Description | Thick folder of presscuttings, telex reports and other papers on political and social conditions in Iraq in the aftermath of the Second Gulf War, from March through to December 1991, including information on prisoner exchanges, ongoing effects of sanctions, Iraqi feelings about the USA and its western allies, financial difficulties, humanitarian concern about the forthcoming cold winter and the lack of food and material resources, continuing concern about chemical and nuclear weapons, a letter from Patrick Clawson to Jonathan Crusoe seeking his advice on the efficacy of sanctions (October 1991), discussions of Kurds and Palestine, Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein (including publications from the Independent Iraqi Alliance and the Islamic Dawaa Party), UNDP World Development Special Report (November 1991), an issue of 'Sawt al-Bahrain' (December 1991), and an issue of the Free Iraq Weekly (Arabic) newspaper for 23 September 1991. |