Poisonous Affair - America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja

This book, first published in 2007, examines how America stood by and allowed Saddam's Iraq to amass chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war.

List of 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.

About the author

Joost R. Hiltermann is a veteran commentator on human rights. While researching this book, he was working as Director of the Arms Divison of Human Rights Watch. He is currently the Middle East Project Director for the International Crisis Group. His publications include Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories (1991).

Product details

• Authors: Joost R. Hiltermann, Hiltermann Joost R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107666962
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66696-2
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, Iran, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, International Relations, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Middle Eastern history, Iraq, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons