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A poisonous affair : America, Iraq, and the gassing of Halabja / Joost R. Hiltermann.
Van Pelt Library DS79.9.H27 H55 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hiltermann, Joost R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Halabjah (Iraq)--History--Bombardment, 1988.
- Halabjah (Iraq).
- Kurds--Crimes against--Iraq.
- Kurds.
- Kurds--Crimes against.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--Iraq.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Iraq--Foreign relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 314 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Halabja controversy
- 1. Crossing the chemical threshold
- 2. Setting the volume control
- 3. Chemical interlude
- 4. War in Kurdistan
- 5. Halabja
- 6. The Halabja demonstration effect
- 7. Iran and the use of gas
- 8. Fixing the evidence
- 9. The road to Kuwait
- Conclusion: Fall-out
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521876865
- 0521876869
- OCLC:
- 77831064
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