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The Iraqi File

From 1991 through 2002, Dr. Atiyyah published a monthly newsletter called "The Iraqi File," covering Iraq's political and economic developments. He started each newsletter with an editorial that became a reference for insights of the period. These editorials can be found below.

1. December 1990The democracy of the nationalist current in Iraq?
2. February 1991An open letter to the Iraqi opposition
3. February 1991Saudi Arabia and the Iraqi opposition
4. March 1991The Iraqi opposition
5. March 1991The Iraqi opposition (continued)
6. April 1991The Iraqi national impasse: is there a way out?
7. May 1991Iraqi national reconciliation
8. July 1991Iraqi citizenship
9. October 1991Iraq and the sorrowful fate: between dictatorship and subordination
10. December 1991The crisis of government and opposition in Iraq
11. December 1991Arab regimes with a democratic orientation
12. January 1992On the margins of the elections in Algeria
13. February 1992Free elections under international supervision are required
14. March 1992On the Iraqi file
15. March 1992The Islamic current in Iraq: tasks and pressures
16. May 1992American policy towards Iraq
17. June 1992The Kurds and the national option
18. July 1992The Vienna conference of the Iraqi opposition
19. July 1992The Vienna conference of the Iraqi opposition: between the field's harvest and the threshing floor's reckoning
20. August 1992Iraq and American policy two years after the occupation of Kuwait
21. September 1992The Iraqi people are not a testing ground
22. January 1993Notes on American policy toward Iraq
23. March 1993The regime and the Iraqi opposition compete for the favour of the American administration
24. May 1993An alliance of opposites: Iraq and Iran between yesterday and today
25. May 1993An alliance of opposites: Iraq and Iran as the basis of a new regional order
26. July 1993The slogan of the economic blockade on Iraq: a political paper or a national task?
27. August 1993The ruling leadership's responsibility in entrenching the division of Iraqis
28. September 1993On the margins of the political asylum sought by some Iraqi ambassadors
29. October 1993The experience of ideological parties in Iraq
30. November 1993The game of shifting sands is no substitute for international legitimacy
31. December 1993The end of the economic embargo on Iraq — possibilities and consequences
32. January 1994The independent Iraqi democratic current and the crisis of the Iraqi opposition
33. February 1994When thinking the impossible becomes the only way out
34. March 1994A prosperous democratic Iraq is the guarantee of an independent democratic Kuwait
35. June 1994The way out for Iraqi Kurdistan: an Iraqi solution and elections under UN supervision
36. June 1994Have the Iraqis failed to find a solution to their own problems?
37. July 1994What is new and what is missing in Saddam Hussein's speech
38. July 1994Draft declaration of principles on the experience of political work in Kurdistan and the Iraqi opposition
39. September 1994And kin can be the crueller oppressors
40. October 1994Iraqi foreign policy and the struggle between centres of power
41. November 1994Iraqi military escalation
42. December 1994Iraq's recognition of Kuwait and the American reaction
43. March 1995The leadership of Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim and the lessons not learned
44. May 1995Security Council resolution 986: a victory for American diplomacy
45. July 1995I see Iraq's night as long!!
46. August 1995A temporary prescription is no lasting cure
47. September 1995Dimensions of the Jordanian turn against Saddam Hussein
48. October 1995The mistaken political reading of events
49. November 1995An Iraqi vision of a Syrian role in saving Iraq
50. January 1996A new Fertile Crescent: a regional order capable of solving the Iraqi dilemma
51. 1996Dr. Ghassan Atiyyah's intervention in the discussions of the Arab-Iranian relations seminar
52. February 1996Iraq will remain suspended pending the outcome of the Syrian–Israeli negotiating track
53. February 1996On the margins of the Amman seminar and the Iraqis' meeting with the Jordanian monarch
54. April 1996The conference of Iraqi opposition leaders in Damascus
55. May 1996The game of axes within the Iraqi opposition
56. July 1996The Cairo summit: a turn in the Arab political approach
57. August 1996The Arab nationalist project in Iraq aborted the building of the nation state
58. September 1996Waiting in Iraq is an invitation to suicide
59. October 1996How Masoud Barzani became the leading player in deciding Kurdistan's future
60. November 1996Back to square one in the Kurdish chess game
61. December 1996In light of the implementation of the oil-for-food resolution
62. February 1997Understanding Baghdad's approach to the prohibited weapons file
63. April 1997The scenario of conditional rehabilitation for Iraq as an alternative to containment or overthrow
64. May 1997The history of a nation in the life of one man
65. June 1997The Turkish incursion
66. July 1997The Iraqi-Syrian rapprochement
67. August 1997Iraq, the sick man
68. September 1997The election of Mohammad Khatami to the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran
69. October 1997American containment policy: the survival of dictatorship and the blockade
70. November 1997The expulsion of the American members of the inspection teams
71. December 1997Back to square one — awaiting the unknown
72. February 1998Saddam Hussein defies… and Washington threatens to strike
73. May 1998For America to pay a heavy price, Saddam Hussein must be ready to pay a similar one
74. July 1998Repercussions of the revelation that Iraq used nerve gas
75. August 1998Breaking the blockade or breaking the regime?
76. October 1998The Washington agreement for Kurdish reconciliation
77. November 1998The Iraqi national impasse
78. December 1998Baghdad's miscalculations
79. May 1999American policy towards Iraq
80. July 1999Another chance — may it not be wasted
81. January 2000The Security Council decision to suspend sanctions: a step toward neutralising the suffering of the Iraqi people
82. February 2000Nothing lasts forever
83. April 2000The dissonance of the Iraqi condition
84. May 2000Will the suffering of the Iraqis become like the suffering of the Palestinians?
85. July 2000The American presidential elections
86. August 2000When the Iraqis' choice becomes a loaf of bread or the loss of freedom and dignity
87. September 2000The October surprise
88. October 2000The political report of the Iraqi democratic centre current
89. November 2000After eight years, does the failure of containment as American policy toward Iraq open the road?
90. December 2000The Palestinian intifada
91. April 2001The Bahraini lesson as a model for the transition to constitutional legitimacy
92. May 2001The third basket in the American review of its policy towards Iraq
93. June 2001Security Council deliberations on reviewing the sanctions against Iraq
94. July 2001Repercussions of the failure of the smart sanctions project
95. August 2001On the margins of Saddam Hussein's call for dialogue with the Kurds
96. October 2001The American-Iraqi confrontation
97. 2001Index of The Iraqi File editorials
98. January 2002Saudi Arabia loses its Iraqi compass
99. January 2002The Turkish obstacle to democratic change in Iraq
100. February 2002When a policy of preserving the status quo produces its opposite
101. April 2002In light of the possibility of America toppling the Iraqi regime
102. May 2002Post-Saddam Iraq: the theme of an expanded conference of the Iraqi opposition
103. May 2002The Iraqi opposition, the struggle between American factions, and the need for a regional role
104. May 2002American flexibility in adopting Security Council resolution 1409 — paid for with rigidity in an expected resolution
105. 2002A poll indicates that Iraqis would support a US-led war
106. July 2002The Iraqi opposition, the struggle between American factions, and the need for a regional role
107. August 2002The repercussions of the meeting between six opposition leaders and American officials
108. August 2002Washington's invitation to six Iraqi opposition leaders: a turn onto the right road
109. September 2002On the margins of the meetings of the Iraqi committee of experts
110. September 2002How did the Kurdish leaderships become the basis for the opposition's unity?
111. September 2002The United Nations battle: a draw on points, awaiting the knockout blow
112. November 2002Statement issued by the Iraqi Islamic Party
113. November 2002Al-Hayat visits Iraqi Kurdistan — the memory of a leader and a people
114. December 2002The axis of evil and the Great Satan reach common ground
115. December 2002Saddam's apology in reverse
116. December 2002Masoud Barzani: the man of agreement in a time of disagreement
117. December 2002Behind the scenes of the opposition conference in London... and after
118. December 2002Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel, two prominent members of the US Senate
119. December 2002From the British press
120. December 2002Saddam Hussein's remarks at the fifty-sixth session of the Council of Ministers
121. December 2002Statement issued by the Coalition of Iraqi National Forces - Britain
122. December 2002Efforts to expand the follow-up committee to one hundred and one, and Saudi Arabia's boycott over the term 'democratic Iraq'
123. December 2002Seven pieces of advice from the Dawa Party to the participants in the London conference
124. December 2002Expanding the Iraqi opposition follow-up committee after the conference
125. December 2002Without an Israeli flag in Baghdad: Israeli participation in the war on Iraq could cost Washington its standing
126. December 2002Zalmay Khalilzad to the conference: America and the Iraqis have common goals
127. December 2002Zalmay Khalilzad: an American hawk from Mazar-i-Sharif
128. December 2002Laith Kubba speaks to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat
129. December 2002The Iraqi opposition conference in London
130. December 2002Iraq's monopoly on the phenomenon of external opposition
131. December 2002Although the Iraqi army stands no chance against American power
132. December 2002America plans to seize the main oil fields in northern Iraq with helicopter-borne light units
133. December 2002So that we are not drawn into the war of aggression
134. December 2002An American study on the problems of Iraq's oil industry after Saddam, and a British study on political change
135. December 2002The London conference settles for the possible... and moves on to Kurdistan
136. December 2002The Iraqi opposition conference: its merits and its shortcomings
137. December 2002The results of the latest Iraqi opposition conference and its prospects
138. December 2002The head of the Supreme Council delegation to the London opposition conference: despite the pressures, we succeeded
139. December 2002The Iraqi opposition conference and the hard test of self-determination
140. December 2002Text of a working paper submitted by Uday Saddam Hussein
141. December 2002The repercussions of a unified American position
142. December 2002Private villas specially prepared in Tripoli
143. December 2002War will not happen if Iraq's leadership decides to step aside, defeating the agenda of those calling for invasion
144. December 2002Its greatest achievement lay in convening and in its results, but what comes next?
145. December 2002Saddamist whims
146. December 2002Cutting through all the rumours
147. January 2003It is a matter of liberating the Iraqi people, not merely removing weapons of mass destruction