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October 2000
OIL FOR FOOD: THE TRUE STORY
A debt of dishonour *
by ALAIN GRESH
During the Gulf war in 1991 the US
deliberately targeted
Iraq's drinking water supply in violation of
the Geneva
convention on war crimes. The media have
ignored recent
research by a US academic which confirms a
deliberate
strategy to destroy the whole country. Ten
years after the
end of the conflict the Iraqi people are
still paying for the
intransigence of both the US and Saddam
Hussein.
Despite the recent direct flights from
Moscow, Paris and
Amman to Baghdad, flouting the embargo,
there is no sign
of Washington yielding any ground. On the
contrary, the
presidential election campaign has raised
the odds.
Meantime, the pillaging of Iraq continues,
as shown by the
work of the UN Compensation Commission - a
secretive
body which operates on a distinctly shaky
legal basis and
creams off a third of Iraq's oil revenue.
Translated by Harry
Forster
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