| Description | Folder of presscuttings, bulletin digests and telex reports chronicling the progress of the Second Gulf War during October 1990. Most of the papers in this folder are excerpts from the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts with scores of reports of the meetings and speeches of Saddam Hussein, as well as statements from other Middle Eastern sources and details of events and activities around the region; there are Kurdish allegations of Iraqi mining of uranium, photocopied articles from The Independent (on the Egyptian intelligence service, accusations of Iraqi attacks on and murders of Egyptians, and Kuwaiti resistance), the text of a speech on the Gulf situation by King Hasan of Morroco, report of the disappearance of a Kuwaiti balloon-radar, a brief article in 'The Oil Daily' (18 October 1990 arguing that America needed to better understand the nature of Iraq's grievances before the situation could be resolved, various small presscuttings reporting on Iraqi military strategy with reference to the battle for Faw in the First Gulf War, a short article from the International Herald Tribune on dissent in Baghdad, a photocopied feature from Times Magazine, 'Saddam's Strategies' (1 October 1990), a Financial Times report on the UN decision to seek reparation from Iraq for the cost of military action, |