The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

Noting furtherthe letter dated 8 October 2002 from the Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC and the Director General of the IAEA to Gen ...

interviews inside or outside of Iraq, may facilitate the travel of those interviewed and family members outside of Iraq, and tha ...

rials, or documents taken during inspections, without search of UNMOVIC or IAEA personnel or official or personal baggage; Deci ...

a Western-style democracy in Iraq produced an elected government, but four years after the invasion, Baghdad and many other part ...

believed to be meeting with aides. A full-scale invasion from Kuwait followed. Approx- imately 150,000 U.S. troops, along with 4 ...

DOCUMENT Bush Ultimatum to Hussein to Leave Iraq MARCH17, 2003 My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final day ...

In the case of Iraq, the Security Council did act in the early 1990s. Under Reso- lutions 678 and 687, both still in effect, the ...

Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation, the American people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war and ever ...

That is the future we choose. Free nations have a duty to defend our people by uniting against the violent. And tonight, as we h ...

authorities and Iraqi politicians. The killing of Vieira de Mello and his colleagues dispirited the United Nations, which subseq ...

Bremer but had no power and little domestic political legitimacy as a body appointed by the United States. Bremer governed Iraq ...

all concerned to carry out their work on behalf of the people of Iraq, and welcoming Member State contributions in this regard u ...

permit, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, a timetable and a program for the drafting of a new constitution fo ...

Emphasizesthe importance of establishing effective Iraqi police and security forces in maintaining law, order, and security and ...

The Missing WMD DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT President George W. Bush said in March 2003 that he had decided to order the inva- sion of I ...

Following are excerpts from the executive summary of the “Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI [Director of Ce ...

of a de facto end to the sanctions regime, both in terms of oil exports and the trade embargo, by the end of 1999. Saddam wanted ...

inner circle—told ISG they assumed Saddam would restart a nuclear program once UN sanc- tions ended. Saddam indicated that he w ...

CHEMICAL Key Findings Saddam never abandoned his intentions to resume a CW effort when sanctions were lifted and conditions were ...

to improve Iraq’s infrastructure, which would have enhanced Iraq’s ability to pro- duce CW agents if the scaled-up production pr ...