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To Sir Terence Clark. I'm sorry if my message, re. D. Mellor, Halabja etc. was not sufficiently clear. Nothing, from it, was quoted from Hansard - I merely suggested that Felicity Arbuthnot could try Hansard, 1988. The source I had copied out was taken from the internet, a site called 'Iraq Chronology', which I assumed was "an independent source?". It is quite possible, as you suggest, that it is an American source, or based on such. (Admittedly, I had some trouble identifying that source.) - I hope this is of some help. Yours sincerely, Bert Gedin (B'ham, U.K.). >From: Terence Clark <Sir_Terence_Clark@compuserve.com> >To: CASI <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> >Subject: Re: Halabja >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:18:20 -0500 > >Message text written by "Bert Gedin" > >DAVID MELLOR, then a Foreign Office minister (+ Secretary to the >Treasury?) >was visiting Baghdad at the time. Within a month Defense Minister Tony >Newton had returned to Baghdad to offer, on behalf of the British Thatcher >government £340 million in export credits. < > >It would be extraordinary for Hansard to be so wrong and I suspect some >serious misquotation here which, judging by the language, could be by based >on some American source! As I have reported separately David Mellor (who >was Minister of State at the FCO at the time) visited Baghdad on 24-25 >February. I repeat that he was not there at the time of the attack on >Halabja on 16 March. Tony Newton, who was Minister for Trade NOT "Defense >Minister", did not return within a month to offer an enhanced line of >credit. Tony Newton visted the Baghdad International Trade Fair on 5-7 >November 1988, after the Iran/Iraq war had ended. As far as I remember the >enhanced line of credit had already been announced. > >Terence Clark >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq >For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk >CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings.