Summary
AMID all the fawning and history rewriting to celebrate Lady Thatcher's 80th, there has been a thundering silence over one aspect of her reign. There was no mention of arming Saddam Hussein in spite of the massacre of his own people.
In 1989 Britain was pushing arms sales - or machine tools as they were described. No fewer than 17 UK firms were represented at the Baghdad arms fair where the "supergun" was on display. And some expenses were paid by the Government, inspite of guidelines that prevented sales of weapons to Iraq.See the full content of this document
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A memo written by Foreign Office Minister William Waldegrave to...
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