VOL. XLV

No 49

9-December-2002

IRAQ

Iraq Under Siege

Tim Llewellyn, a former Middle East correspondent for the BBC, wrote this report for MEES after recently visiting Baghdad.

The Iraqis are awaiting a solution, however it may be delivered, from out of whatever alien landscape. The Iraqi people have no control over any function of their lives except that of sheer survival. They can no more organize themselves to rid the nation of Saddam Husain and the extraordinary network of power and solidarity...