Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Map

Anthony Arnove

The Roots of US/UK Policy

Naseer US Policy on 1990-1999
Phyllis Bennis and Denis The Impact of Sanctions and U.S. Policy (Interview with David Barsamian)
Noam US Iraq Motives and Consequences

Myths and Realities

John Collateral Damage
Voices in the Ten Myths About Sanctions
Robert The Hidden War
Rania Masri and Ali The Media’s Deadly Spin on Iraq
Howard One Iraqi’s Story

Life Under Sanctions

Kathy Raising The Children of Iraq 1990-1999
Barbara Nimri Targets–Not Victims
George Killing a Country and a People

Documenting the Impact of Sanctions

Dr. Peter Sanctions, Food, Nutrition, and Health in Iraq
Dr. Huda S. The Impact of Sanctions on the Environment and Health in Iraq

Activist Responses

Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Howard Zinn, Robert Jensen, William Keach, June Jordan, Angela Davis, Carlos Muoz, Jr, and Sharon Sanctions Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Noam Sanctions as Biological Warfare
Sharon Building the Movement to End Sanctions

Appendix Organizations Working to End Sanctions

Index An Excerpt from Iraq Under Siege Raising The Children of Iraq 1990-1999 Kathy Kelly It is January 8, 1997. I am in a car driving from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., at 6:15 a.m. With me are Simon Harak, a Jesuit priest and theology professor, and Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert, Dominican sisters from Baltimore. We will later meet Aft Laffin, a Catholic lay worker, at the Senate Hart Office Building. Our plan is to enter the Senate confirmation hearings for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Leslie Stahl went to Iraq for 60 Minutes . On the program that aired May 12, 1996, she asked Albright, who was then the US ambassador to the United Nations, to explain US policy in the context of the devastation she had seen among the children of Iraq. Albright “It’s a hard decision, Lesli