Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.159.2.14
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
SHOCK! BRITAIN BACKED SADDAM HUSSEIN
Place
Iraq; UK; USA
People
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Events
First Gulf War
Date
1990
Description
Printed leaflet with photograph of Saddam Hussein superimposed over a British union flag. The text reads "SHOCK! BRITAIN BACKED SADDAM HUSSEIN". The reverse includes information about British companies that traded with the Iraqi military, and other dictatorships that Britain sold arms to. The bottom half is a pre-printed form to join Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
CND is an organisation that campaigns for peace and for governments around the world to demilitarise and discard existing and new nuclear weapons programmes.
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