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> A letter published in today's Independent.
>
> Chris Doyle
>
Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding
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> Letter published in the Independent
> 10 August 2000
>
>
> The Foreign Office Minister Peter Hain has made a defiant attempt to
> defend US-UK policy on Iraq, or rather Saddam Hussein("It is important as
> ever to keep Saddam Hussein in his cage", 7 August). He squarely blames
> the whole mess on Saddam Hussein. But to have a humanitarian programme
> dependent on the goodwill of a dictator with such an appalling human
> rights record, whom US officials publicly still want to get rid of does
> not make sense.
> How do the sanctions contain Saddam Hussein when the US acknowledges
> that every year $1 billion dollars of oil is smuggled out of Iraq via Iran
> alone? So his cronies get what they want, including, no doubt, items
> necessary for any weapons programme, but the people of Iraq get nothing
> but suffering. To argue that Saddam is in a cage is therefore rubbish.
> His regime is ever more entrenched, (Remainder of paragraph not published)
> whilst his neighbours can still live in fear of what weapons and plans the
> Iraqi government may or may not be devising for future use.
> (Paragraph not published) Perhaps Mr Hain might consider suspending
> flights in the No-Fly Zones, conditional on Iraq not bombing its civilians
> from the air, in return for Iraqi compliance with Resolution 1284.
>
>
> Sir Cyril Townsend
> Director
>
>
> Chris Doyle
> CAABU
> 21 Collingham Road
> London SW5 0NU
> 020 7 373 8414
> Fax 020 7 835 2088
> Mobile 07968 040 281
> www.caabu.org
>
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