Geoff Holland emailed me yesterday:
In case this is of interest, here is an article just published by Irene Gendzier, Professor of History and Politics at the University of Boston, who specialises in the Middle East. This prelude to her latest book mentions our campaign in Britain to hold the US accountable for supplying Iraq with the materials which fuelled its biological weapons programme.
There are now 122 MP signatures on the current House of Commons Early Day Motion 'Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Iraq' (EDM 303), tabled by Austin Mitchell MP. In the Scottish Parliament, where the same Motion has been tabled (S2M-2050) by Chris Ballance, 19 MSPs have now signed.
Many thanks to all who have supported the campaign by asking their MP or MSP to sign and in many other encouraging ways. If we have achieved nothing else, at least a few more people have given thought to this vitally important matter. For example, there have been more than 31,000 hits on the campaign website and there are now numerous links to this site on other websites.
Considering the level of concern expressed by MPs in Westminster (and by MSPs in Edinburgh), I would just add that I regard the wholesale lack of interest on the part of the mainstream news media in Britain as pathetic. That no national newspaper has ever so much as mentioned this issue is shameful, unless, of course, the hand of Government is upon them.
Quite.
