O Daughter of Babylon
Riad El-Taher
Broschiertes Buch

O Daughter of Babylon

Journey of an Iraqi Patriot and What Chilcot Didn't Say

Herausgeber: Clark-Lowes, Francis
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Riad El-Taher arrived in England to study engineering just in time to hear Tony Benn railing against Anthony Eden’s 1956 Suez policy. He was rarely far from politics thereafter. When the UN imposed crippling sanctions on his native land, he took Tam Dalyell, George Galloway and ex-BBC reporter, Tim Llewellyn, to Iraq to see their effect. At Dalyell’s suggestion he formed a widely supported organisation to campaign for a reversal of this policy; after the Second Gulf War this redirected its fire at the occupation. He made enemies too, and believed he landed in Wandsworth jail as a result. D...