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UNMOVIC
website
The commission for monitoring weapons of mass destruction set
up
under Security Council Resolution 1284 to replace UNSCOM.
UNMOVIC
Explanatory
statement from the UN, 17 December 1999, following the
establishment of UNMOVIC
UNSCOM
The UN special commission that carried out on-site
inspections in Iraq until 1998.
UNSCOM weapons inspection reports
(UN website)
Iraqi
National Monitoring Directorate
An Iraqi view
of weapons inspections
IAEA
and Iraq
Despite the problems with UNSCOM, the International
Atomic Energy Authority continues to carry out limited
inspections in Iraq. See also the IAEA
website
Proliferation
report, 2001
US Department of Defence. Links to full
report in PDF format
Iraq's
special weapons programmes
Technical information from the Federation of American Scientists.
Includes sections on nuclear,
chemical
and
biological
weapons.
How
UN 'inspects' an Iraq site
The inspection process (Science Monitor, 24 Feb 1998)
Iraq's
non-conventional arsenal
The types and amounts of chemical and bioogical weapons that Iraq
says it possessed. (Washington Post, 1998)
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
US Government White Paper detailing Iraq's suspected
biological, chemical, nuclear and ballistic weapons programmes. 13 February, 1998.
The search for nuclear technology
Israeli attack on the Osiraq plant, 1981
Saddam's
bombmaker
Transcript of a question-and-answer session
with Dr Khidir Hamza, former Iraqi nuclear weapons scientist, an event sponsored
by the Carnegie Endowment's Non-Proliferation Project (2
November, 2000)
Inside Saddam's secret
nuclear programme
More from Dr Khidhir Hamza (Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists, Sept-Oct 1998)
Iraq's
reconstitution of its nuclear weapons programme
David Albright and Dr Khidhir Hamza - again. (Arms
Control Today, October 1998)
What happened in the Gulf war
A simple interactive guide from The Guardian. Requires Macromedia
flash (available
free of charge).
History
of the war
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
Essential
facts
Allies, casualties, cost (CNN)
The
unfinished war
A retrospective look at Desert Storm (CNN)
Fog
of War
Military success ... political failure? A detailed look at the
war by Washington Post writers.
War
with Iraq
Background and military analysis of the conflict from the
Federation of American Scientists
The
Gulf War
Story of the war, based on a 1996 Frontline television special.
Desert
Fox
Multimedia coverage by the Washington Post
No-Fly Zones
Explanation (Medea)
No-fly
zones
Map of
the zones (Financial Times)
Operation
Northern Watch
(United States European Command)
Operation
Desert Fox
(US Department of Defense)
Depleted
uranium
Compilation of reports by The Guardian Last
battle of the Gulf war
Frontline's "definitive account of what's behind the
bitter Gulf War Syndrome controversy" (1998) Mortality among
US veterans of the Persian Gulf war
A study by
Han Kang and Tim Bullman which suggests that death rates from
illness among Gulf veterans are the same as among other
veterans, though there are more deaths from accidents. (New England Journal of Medicine,
14 Nov, 1996, Vol 335, No 20) GulfLINK
News, declassified documents and
information from the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses at
the US Defense Department Gulf
War Veterans
Facts about the illnesses and how to get help (US Department of Veterans
Affairs
IRAQI WEAPONRY
Liquid
artillery shell (Washington Post)
Long-range
missile (Washington Post)
SA-2
missile (Washington Post)
STRUCTURE OF THE IRAQI ARMY
SECRET POLICE
(Iraqi National Congress
website)
Forces
in the Gulf
US and other deployments, February 1998 (Washington Post). Also
details of weaponry
Military
forces map
Graphic showing US and UK military forces
active in Iraq (Financial Times)
Cruise
missiles
Facts and figures (Washington Post)
Military
personnel statistics
(US Department of Defense)
US Central Command
CENTCOM is responsible for US operations in the
Middle East, North Africa and southwest Asia.
History
of the war
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
Iran-Iraq War
A brief account from the US Library of Congress
1980-1988
Iran-Iraq War
Overview of the events leading to
the war Iran-Iraq
War: roots, conduct and prospects
Michael Dobe discusses the causes of the conflict and its implications
for US policy. (Clio Project, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 1986)
Review
of US policy in the Iran-Iraq war
An Iranian view (Salaam daily, 18 July, 1995) Iran-Iraq
war and the Kurds
Impact of the war on the Kurds (from "Agha, Shaikh and State",
by Martin van Bruinessen, Zed
Books, 1992) United
States and the Iran-Iraq War
History of the eight-year conflict and analysis of US policy. (Z Magazine,
February 1990. Revised version in Imperial Alibis, South
End Press, 1993)
Iran-Iraq
war and waterway claims
ICE Case Studies (May, 1998)
Iran-Iraq
war
An Iranian view (NetIran, 1993)
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