US, Israel, Britain in axis of evil: Aziz
Iraqi livelihoods were destroyed by the bombing that occurred during the Gulf War and by "the most severe sanctions in the history of civilization" imposed afterwards by the United Nations, anthropologist and journalist Barbara Aziz said.Aziz, who spent 15 years interviewing Iraqi men and women about their lives for the book "Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq," discussed the book yesterday in a lecture at the Friend Center.She conducted interviews in Iraq from 1989 until the start of the current war there in 2003.Decrying the economic collapse she said the sanctions caused, Aziz blamed the decision to implement them on "American policy linked to the Zionist agenda.""I put the responsibility largely on this country [as part of] the western triangle of evil ?? Israel, Britain and the United States," she said.