Dr. Muhammad Mahdi Salih Al-Rawi, former Iraqi Minister of Trade, presents in his new book - “Preventing Famine in Iraq - My Memoirs of the Years of the Siege 1990-2003” (to be published soon by Al-Maaref Forum) a detailed account of the efforts he made at the head of his ministry to address the sanctions imposed on Iraq in the wake of its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which continued until the US invasion of the country in 2003.
The author talks with remarkable frankness about the differences that were plaguing Saddam Hussein’s regime, part of which is related to Lieutenant-General Hussein Kamel, the son-in-law of the Iraqi president before he split with his uncle in 1995.
