| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to ministerial and senior officials in the Iraqi regime, including appointments, awards, dismissals, executions and official visits. Items include a profile of Iraqi Ambassador to the US Amir Al-Anbari, the appointment in 1990 of Abdul-Wahab Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Sabbagh of Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, an award ceremony in 1989 for those involved in the reconstruction of Faw, the dismissal of Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid as Governor of Kuwait in November 1990, the appointment of Adnan Daoud Salman as acting head of the Presidential Office, the arrest of 40 senior army and air force officers (July 1991), the sacking of 22 health officials (May 1988), photos of the swearing-in ceremonies of the new Director of the Military Industry Commission, Col. Hussein Kamil (April 1988) and the new Minister of Trade, Dr Mohammed Mehdi Saleh (August 1987) and others, biographical profiles of senior Ba'ath Party members Ali Hassan Al-Majid, Kamil Yassin Rashid, Latif Nssayif Jassim, Fadhel Barrak Hussein, Radhi Hassan Salman and Adnan Dawood Salman, an obituary of Sa'doun Gheidan, profiles of new ministers in 1982 with reports on the removal of 'hostile elements' from within the cabinet, he appointment of Ismat Kittani as UN Representative (August 1985), conferral of military decorations on several army commanders and members of the Republican Guard, reports on the sacking of the Finance, Labour and acting Agricultral ministers (1989), a profile of Hussein Kamil al-Majid, a photocopied three-page 'Baghdad Diary' from MidEast Markets (1986) with details of Saddam's top military commanders, Crusoe's notes on the National Assembly and a profile of former President of Iraq (1968-79) Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (October 1982) |