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Comparing SCIRI and Saddam Regime Media Output, 1995-2003
Abstract by Mr. Charles Brown On Session 194  (Iraq in the 1990s)

On Sunday, November 21 at 11:00 am

2010 Annual Meeting

Abstract
This paper compares the output of the Supreme Council of the Islamic revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)-affiliated Voice of Rebellious Iraq and other opposition broadcasts on the one hand, with Government of Iraq-affiliated Iraqi News Agency as well as Al Jumhuriyah; Al Qadisiyah; Al Thawrah; Babil and other newspapers. The sources used in this study are available in the holdings of the US Government's Open Source Center, formerly the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, available to non-US Government users through the World News Connection database. This survey attempts to determine how ideological distinctions between these sets of sources affected their coverage of Iraqi political events; also by surveying both sets of sources this paper aims to establish more detailed timelines of Iraqi political history between 1995 and 2003, as well as evaluating the merit of these primary sources for further development of historical narratives for late-Iraqi Ba'thist history.
Discipline
History
Geographic Area
Iraq
Sub Area
19th-21st Centuries