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Article: Unhappy landing. (economic situation in Iraq)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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The row between the UN and Saddam Hussein is far from over. In the light of recent events MARIAM SHAHIN assesses the current situation for the Iraqi people, the real victims of what has been described as the "necessary evil" of keeping sanctions in place.
The latest tit-for-tat military stand-off between Iraq and the United States centered around Baghdad's expulsion of American members of the United Nations Arms inspections team. After asking that the UN inspection team be made up of an equal number of permanent UN Security Council members (China, Russia, France, Britain and the us) and being denied that request, the Iraqis agreed to let American members of the ...