Margaret Thatcher Iraq
1991 iraq withdraws from kuwait and is subjected to weapons inspections.
Margaret thatcher iraq. On 2 august iraq invades kuwait starting the first gulf war. She was widely thought. 04082013 1118 am et updated jun 08 2013.
Sanctions are still on iraq. Margaret thatcher writes to saddam saying she is horrified. Margaret thatcher who died today at the age of 87 is famous for admonishing us president george hw bush not to go wobbly on iraq after it invaded kuwait in 1990.
File photo dated 080310 of former prime minister margaret thatcher as it has been revealed in previously unpublished cabinet papers that she voiced concern that a 1989 report into the hillsborough disaster constituted a devastating criticism of police. They havent worked now. Friday 14 october 2005 0006.
The woman who armed saddam hussein yassamine mather digs up some of the recently departeds dirty politcal laundry one of the forgotten stories in all the obituaries of margaret thatcher was the arms to iraq fiasco which led to a public inquiry conducted by sir richard scott into the export of defence equipment and dual use goods to iraq and related prosecutions. Almost no one today remembers margaret thatchers long history with iraq. Her biggest arms deal was the al yamamah contract with the saudi arabian dictatorship in 1985 and 1988 which was one of the largest in history worth about 40 billion to recently privatised british aerospace and other companies.