Abstract
In 1991 the US-led effort to evict the Iraqi Army from Kuwait produced many unintended consequences. Perhaps the most significant and the least noticed was the creation of a de facto Kurdish state in northern Iraq. The Kurdish safe haven, which was the first United Nations-approved humanitarian intervention against the will of a sovereign state, would never have come to pass without worldwide media pressure on the USA and Europe to do something about Saddam Hussein's brutal repression of the Kurdish rebellion against his regime. The Kurds did with press coverage what they had failed to achieve in decades of armed struggle. This article is an adaptation from
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