O Daughter of Babylon - El-Taher, Riad
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Riad El-Taher arrived in England to study engineering just in time to hear Tony Benn railing against Anthony Eden's 1956 Suez policy. He was rarely far from politics thereafter. When the UN imposed crippling sanctions on his native land, he took Tam Dalyell, George Galloway and ex-BBC reporter, Tim Llewellyn, to Iraq to see their effect. At Dalyell's suggestion he formed a widely supported organisation to campaign for a reversal of this policy; after the Second Gulf War this redirected its fire at the occupation. He made enemies too, and believed he landed in Wandsworth jail as a result.…mehr

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Riad El-Taher arrived in England to study engineering just in time to hear Tony Benn railing against Anthony Eden's 1956 Suez policy. He was rarely far from politics thereafter. When the UN imposed crippling sanctions on his native land, he took Tam Dalyell, George Galloway and ex-BBC reporter, Tim Llewellyn, to Iraq to see their effect. At Dalyell's suggestion he formed a widely supported organisation to campaign for a reversal of this policy; after the Second Gulf War this redirected its fire at the occupation. He made enemies too, and believed he landed in Wandsworth jail as a result. Dalyell, who considered Riad to be motivated by 'an un-self-seeking desire to protect the well-being of people in Iraq,' called his treatment 'a process of nasty, political vengeance.' Neither a Ba'athist, nor an emigre oppositionist, Riad's patriotic voice is arguably unique and deserves to be heard. Though polemical, and posing uncomfortable questions, this is also the story of a remarkably varied life and the wide range of people encountered in it, not least among them Saddam Hussein.
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In 1990 Riad El-Taher was about to hit the jackpot. £800,000 worth of equipment for the Iraqi oil industry and the electrification of the country's railways had been shipped to his homeland and would be paid for after clearing customs. Further orders were flooding in. Then came Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, the shipments couldn't be paid for, orders dried up, and Riad was for a while reduced to earning his living as a cleaner. This book tells the story both of his success in business and of his subsequent change of direction, with all the consequences that would bring.