Audiovisual footage on Iraq

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This list of audio and video resources on Iraq is by no means complete: the clips listed below may not be the best or the most valuable of those available on the internet regarding any specific topic. If you have suggestions for better footage please e-mail us here.

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• "The War Behind Closed Doors", PBS station WGBH's Frontline programme on Iraq and the making of US policy.
• The Washington Post feature Clovis Maksoud, former Arab League chief representative to the UN, and Charles Duelfer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discussing the policy dilemmas facing the United States (23 February 2001) :
  • Main link; or,
  • Direct link to video.
• The BBC's Barbara Plett in Basra (January 2001?).
• The BBC's Rageh Omaar in Baghdad (17 January 2001).
• The BBC's broadcast of Saddam Husayn's speech (17 January 2001).
• The BBC's Tim Llewellyn on Saddam Husayn's alleged illnesses (17 January 2001).
• The BBC's broadcast of Sir Harold Walker, on Saddam's ability to "manage his personal power" (17 January 2001).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett in Baghdad (16 January 2001).
• The BBC's Rageh Omaar in Baghdad (16 January 2001).
• The BBC's Gulf War retrospective (mid-January 2001).
• The BBC's Frank Gardner on allegations about Kuwaiti prisoners in Iraq (15 January 2001).
• The BBC's Frank Gardner on flights to Iraq (30 September 2000).
• The BBC's Frank Gardner on Jordan's flight to Iraq (28 September 2000).
• Madeleine Albright: "we have compassion" for the Iraqi people (27 September 2000).
• The BBC's Richard Lister on the flights to Iraq (27 September 2000).
• Congressman Sam Gadenson on refocusing Iraq policy (27 September 2000). NOTE: Congressman Gadenson probably meant "Iraq" when he says "Iran" 21 seconds into the interview.
• The BBC's Jane Bennett-Powell on a Russian flight to Iraq, the third in a month (23 September 2000).
• The BBC's Mark Devenport on Unmovic's second quarterly report (31 August 2000).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett on the first civilian flight to Iraq in a decade (19 August 2000).
• The BBC's Martha Dixon on UN subcommission's finding that the sanctions were "unequivocally illegal" (19 August 2000).
• The BBC's Barnaby Mason on the sanctions (6 August 2000).
• Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter: on Iraqi disarmament, the humanitarian situation and his film (3 August 2000).
• The BBC's Frank Gardner on Kuwaiti missing persons and its attitude a decade after the invasion (2 August 2000).
• The BBC's Frank Gardner on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (2 August 2000).
• The BBC's Roger Hearing on Ritter's documentary (29 July 2000).
• The BBC's Mike Donkin on Iraqi education (29 July 2000).
• The BBC's Jon Silverman on crimes of the Iraqi government (25 July 2000).
• Law Professor Philip Sands and Times Editor Michael Binyon on indicting war criminals (25 July 2000).
• Debate on the sanctions regime on Iraq between the former UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Hans von Sponeck, and Patrick Clawson, on PBS Newshour. A transcript is also available here (3 May 2000).
• Hans Blix, head of UNMOVIC, gives a 25 minutes long interview on Swedish radio, on his views on inspections and sanctions (May 2000, in Swedish):
  • Real Audio direct link; or, if behind a firewall
  • Real Audio for download (2.7 MB)
• The BBC's Barbara Plett in Baghdad (April 2000).
• Columbia University interviews Professor Richard Garfield about the effects of the sanctions (2 March 2000):
  • Real Audio; and
  • Real Video.
  • This link is to Columbia's page, which also has QuickTime audio and video.
• Real Video extracts from John Pilger's documentary Paying the Price: killing the children of Iraq (March 2000).
• The BBC's Nick Miles on the new Unmovic (19 January 2000).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett on anniversary of the Gulf War in Iraq (17 January 2000).
• The BBC's Mark Devenport on Unmovic (January 2000).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett on Resolution 1284 (18 December 1999).
• The BBC's Mark Devenport on Resolution 1284 (17 December 1999).
• The BBC's Mark Devenport on Resolution 1284 (17 December 1999).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett on the new "oil for food" phase (11 December 1999).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett on short-term extensions to "oil for food" (23 November 1999).
• The BBC's Nick Childs on Security Council negotiations (3 November 1999).
• The BBC's Barbara Plett on Unicef director's visit to Iraq (17 October 1999).
• "Talk of the Nation" show on National Public Radio with Patrick Clawson and Rania Masri, on the humanitarian situation in Iraq (1 September 1999).
• The BBC's Jeremy Bowen on Unicef's mortality survey and life in Iraq (13 August 1999).
• Unicef's Anita Tiessen on Unicef's mortality survey (13 August 1999).
• The BBC's Mark Devenport on US/UK airstrikes (31 July 1999).
• The BBC's Rageh Omaar on US/UK airstrikes (20 July 1999).
• The BBC's Rob Watson on US/UK airstrikes (20 July 1999).

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