IRAQ WEEKLY HEADLINES
September 2000 - May 2003:
An Index
This is
a strange and, at least at first sight, perhaps rather forbidding document. It
is an index to a collection of international newspaper articles on Iraqi/US
relations and related matters collected together and sent every week to the
discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. The document covers
broadly the period from the election of George Bush as President of the United
States in December 2000 to the invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath.
It begins very simply, with just a list of headlines. As it develops however,
the collections become larger, weekly introductions appear - sometimes
amounting to short essays, and there are often quite elaborate critical remarks
on individual articles. From the end of January 2001 onwards the lists of
titles are broken down into subject categories. By the time of the invasion the
weekly mailings, though still very far from being comprehensive, have become
enormous. The headline lists contain links to the relevant collections of
articles on the CASI Archive.
We reproduce this index here partly as a reference to the CASI collection which,
buried as it is in the discussion list archive, is almost inaccessible; but
also because even by itself it is a useful aide-memoire to some of the dramas
of the past two and a half years - the process by which the Iraqi government
was multiplying economic contacts with its neighbours and the wider world; the
series of scare stories, even before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and
the Pentagon, about Iraq's military capacity and possible longer term projects;
the bombing missions in the 'No Fly Zones'; a moment at which it looked as if
they might have been suspended; the attempts to establish a link between the
Iraqi government and Al Qaida; the opposition to war within the US
establishment; the drama of the weapons inspections. There is quite extensive
coverage of Kurdish politics and also of the wider implications for the 'New
World Order', especially at the time of the invasion of Afghanistan. By itself
the index can be used to gain a broad overview of this whole terrible period of
world affairs but, especially in conjunction with the articles cached on the
CASI website, it also provides access to a host of little details, important or
simply picturesque, which could otherwise easily be overlooked.
The introductions and commentaries are all written by the compiler, Peter
Brooke. The opinions he expresses are his own and not necessarily shared either
by other members of the CASI discussion list or by Fay Dowker.
The
headlines
01/01/2002 - 23/02/2002 (containing the famous
“rinky-dink nations” mailing)
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last modified on 08/07/2003 by Fay
Dowker