VOL. XLIV

No. 12

19-March-2001

IRAQ

Brookings Institution On The New Proposed Sanctions On Iraq

The Brookings Institution, the Washington-based think tank, has just published a comprehensive paper outlining a modified approach to Iraqi sanctions. The study, by Meghan L OSullivan, argues that the sanctions regime is coming under pressure, with President Saddam Husain having convinced the world that the suffering of Iraqi civilians is the result of the sanctions, not of his own reluctance to ease...