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Excerpt: Gulf War - Iraq Trip
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File documents Bernie Grant’s visit to Iraq where the central purpose of the visit was to ‘bring home hostages and to secure peace in the region’. Includes correspondence supporting Bernie Grant’s visit to Iraq on behalf of relatives of the hostages. Note letter from British Iraqi Friendship Association to Bernie Grant. See also related subject file re Palestine.

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