What US and Britain did to Iraq is nothing short of state terrorism
By Linda S. Heard | Special to Gulf News, February 18, 2013
- Image Credit: Niño Jose Heredia/©Gulf News
It’s been almost 10 years since the US and Britain unleashed ‘Shock
and Awe’ on the Iraqi capital Baghdad ostensibly to punish a rogue
dictator for hoarding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in
non-compliance with binding UN Security Council resolutions. In reality,
Saddam Hussain had shut down his nuclear programme and destroyed Iraq’s
chemical and biological weapons more than a decade earlier.
UN weapons inspectors were almost certain of this fact and were on
the point of giving Iraq a clean bill of health until they were leant-on
by Uncle Sam. Indeed, the man who had supervised Iraq’s WMD programme
for a decade Saddam’s son-in-law Hussain Kamal confirmed as much to CIA
intelligence officers and UN officials following his defection to Jordan
in 1995.
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