FRANCAISSOS Enfants d’Irak - Comments
2) Links to politics
-SOS Enfants d’Irak reflects the linking of Jean-Marie Le Pen for Saddam Hussein in Iraq, along with the more general anti-imperialism and anti-American views of the far-right in France. In its own way, SOS Enfants d’Irak reminds “Call for Miriam”, an organisation that was founded in 1998 a Scottish MP, George Galloway, for the benefit of an Iraqi child suffering from leukemia. A member of the Labour Party who was opposed to the first Gulf war in 1991 and the British military intervention in Iraq in 2003, George Galloway used this “ humanitarian cover ” to travel to Baghdad, and in its issue of 22nd April 2003, the Daily Telegraph newspaper accused him of receiving payments from Saddam Hussein’s regime. Regardless of hidden political agendas, SOS Enfants d’Irak should not be confused with other non-profit organisations of similar name, such as those in Belgium and Holland, which were established in 1992 from a communist background and within the wake of Co-ordination against the Gulf war and Médecins Pour le Tiers Monde (M3M) in Brussels.
