The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

forces, and especially for our men and women in uniform who this very moment are risking their lives for their country and for a ...

Their days will continue to be glorious and their past and future will continue to relate the story of a faithful, jealous and p ...

They have even become deeper, stronger, brighter and more deeply rooted. God is great; God is great; may the lowly be defeated. ...

acceptance in principle of Iraq’s responsibility to pay compensation for the loss, dam- age, and injury its aggression has cause ...

the Middle East finally might be ripe for a era of peace and harmony. With Saddam Hussein defeated, and the United States having ...

Over the course of March, diplomats at the United Nations negotiated the terms of what would become the longest, most detailed, ...

DOCUMENT UN Security Council Resolution 687 (1991) APRIL3, 1991 The Security Council, Recallingits resolutions 660 (1990) of 2 A ...

C InvitesIraq to reaffirm unconditionally its obligations under the [Geneva] Pro- tocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War o ...

Agency within fifteen days of the adoption of the present resolution a declaration of the locations, amounts and types of all it ...

ommendations for the Fund to be established in accordance with paragraph 18 and for a program to implement the decisions in para ...

(b) Items specified and defined in paragraphs 8 and 12 not otherwise covered above; (c) Technology under licensing or other tran ...

of such acts to operate within its territory and to condemn unequivocally and renounce all acts, methods and practices of terror ...

The UN inspectors who began arriving in Iraq in May 1991 worked for two agencies. The United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) ...

The UN weapons inspections came to an abrupt end in 1998 after two years of Iraqi refusals to cooperate. This period began in Ju ...

most important result was the halt of oil exports, which had been Iraq’s main source of revenue. In 1992 the Security Council in ...

DOCUMENT Ekeus Letter on UNSCOM’s Progress in Destroying Iraqi WMD and Related Programs JULY11, 1994 As regards the first respon ...

DOCUMENT UN Security Council Resolution 986 (1995) APRIL14, 1995 The Security Council, Recallingits previous relevant resolution ...

account to be established by the Secretary-General for the purposes of this resolution;... SOURCE: United Nations, http://www.un ...

DOCUMENT Butler Letter on UNSCOM’s Work in Iraq JANUARY25, 1999 REPORT: DISARMAMENT ... 7. The Commission’s work has taken five ...

has proven to be the case. Such concerted obstructions naturally raise the question of why Iraq has carried out these activities ...