Dilip Hiro IRAQ & IRAN AFTER GULF WARS united nations

ISBN 0415254124

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

This deeply researched and extremely well-informed book by Dilip Hiro, the noted expert on the Middle East, presents a most useful survey of the recent changes in Iraq and Iran. It is especially timely since it refutes Bush and Blair's war propaganda. Hiro notes that the 1991 war against Iraq killed from 57,600 to 62,600 people, and cost Iraq $200 billions' worth of damage. US and British bombers dropped 140,000 tons of bombs, equivalent to seven Hiroshimas.

He points out that the UN's weapons inspection team, Unscom, was compromised by the US government which illegally inserted CIA operatives and by its co-operation with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. As the Pentagon stated, "information supplied by the monitors had played a part in the careful selection of targets" for the subsequent continual bombing attacks.

Hiro reports that by April 1998 Unscom and the International Atomic Energy Authority had destroyed all Iraq's missiles, chemical weapons and nuclear weapons facilities. As Martin Indyk, the US assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, confirmed in September 1999, "We do not at this point have evidence of any kind that Saddam Hussein is attempting to rebuild his arsenal." So how, after 12 years of the most punishing sanctions in history, could Iraq produce weapons of mass destruction? If Bush and Blair had the evidence, they would surely have told us!

Some claim that UN Resolution 687 gives the US the legal warrant to take `all necessary measures' to change Iraq's regime. But the Resolution guaranteed the inviolability of the Iraq-Kuwait border and authorised `all necessary measures to that end in accordance with the Charter'. It "does not talk about getting rid of leadership", as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan observed. And as the British commander in the 1991 war, General Peter de la Billiere, noted, he had no mandate to invade Iraq or to take over the country. Nor did Resolution 688 authorise military action: the US and British governments tried to add the 'authority to use force', but China and India successfully opposed this. So Bush and Blair have no legal mandate for war.

388 pages. Softcover. Ex-Library, very much cleaner & better than usual.

Weight = 800 g

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