Background
Iraq documents
Official documents relating to sanctions and other issues
Sanctions against Iraq
Up-to-date reports and documents relating to sanctions (Global Policy Forum)
Iraq sanctions
Wikipedia
Life and death in Iraq
Report attempting to gauge the effect of sanctions on Iraqi citizens, especially children ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11 May, 1999)
Rogue States
Noam Chomsky: "The concept of 'rogue state' plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis. The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example." (Z Magazine, April 1998)
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq
Site includes many useful links
The UN Oil for Food Programme
UN Office of the Iraq Programme
Detailed information about the oil for food programme
Oil-for-Food Programme
Wikipedia
Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil- for-Food Programme
Reports and other documents
Report on the Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme
by Paul Volcker, 27 October 2005
Gulf war compensation
UN Compensation Commission
This is the body set up to oversee compensation payments to victims of the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
Gulf war reparations may take Iraq more than a century to pay
The Guardian, 16 June, 2000
Damage claims spiral into the realm of the futile
The Guardian, 1 August, 2000
A debt of dishonour
A quarter of Iraqi oil and petroleum revenue goes not to food or medicine, but to compensation payments. By Alain Gresh (Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2000)
