The Al-Rawi family, says Bisher's brother Wahab, had fled to Britain from Saddam Hussein
's Iraq, where their father had suffered imprisonment and torture. None of us ever asked for asylum. We were very well...
Timeline
August 1990: Saddam Hussein, ruler of Iraq, invaded neighbouring...
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August 1990
Saddam Hussein
, ruler of Iraq, invaded neighbouring Kuwait.
Roy, Arundhati. “Come September”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, Apr. 2003, pp. 6-8.
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January-February 1991: The US and a large coalition of allies launched...
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January-February 1991
The US and a large coalition of allies launched the first Gulf War against Iraq (whose ruler, Saddam Hussein
, had invated Kuwait in August 1990).
Lowry, Richard S. The Gulf War Chronicles. IUniverse, 2003.
Johnson, Richard William. “Living on the Edge”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 9, 28 Apr. 2011, pp. 32-3.
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19 March 2003: The USA, with Britain as its ally, invaded...
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19 March 2003
The USA, with Britain as its ally, invaded Iraq with the intention of effecting regime change: ousting Saddam Hussein
from power. This began the second Gulf War.
MacAskill, Ewen. “Bush: The battle in Iraq is noble, it is necessary and it is just”. Guardian Unlimited, 20 Mar. 2008.
