BACKGROUND ON IRAQ
"Iraq: Facts and Timeline," American Friends
Service Committee
"Iraq: A Chronology of UN Inspections and an Assessment
of their Accomplishments," Arms Control Today
"Why Another War? A Backgrounder on the Iraq Crisis,"
Middle East Research & Information Project
Resources
Organizations
Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
http://www.epic-usa.org/
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
http://www.ips-dc.org/
Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/
United Nations Office of the Iraq Programme http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/
Veterans for Common Sense
http://veteransforcommonsense.org/
Books
Iraq Under Seige: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War Arnove, Anthony.
South End Press. Cambridge, MA, 2000.
The Gulf conflict, 1990-1991 : diplomacy and war in the
new world order Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh. Princeton, N.J.
: Princeton University Press, c1993.
The fire this time : U.S. war crimes in the Gulf Ramsey
Clark
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed by Publishers
Group West, c1992
Videos
Gunning for Saddam. 2001 / 60 minutes/ PBS-FRONTLINE
As Americans are confronted by acts of bioterrorism, powerful forces
in the nation's capitol believe Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to
blame, for this and many other terrorist acts during the last decade.
Many are lobbying to mobilize a military operation to oust Hussein when
the next phase of the war on terrorism kicks in. Proponents of the plan,
including former Clinton administration CIA director James Woolsey,
contend Saddam Hussein was involved in the first World Trade Center
bombing, the attempted assassination of President George H.W. Bush in
1993, and the ongoing state sponsorship of terrorist activities. Foes
of this plan argue that attacking Saddam will destabilize other nations
in the region, most prominently Saudi Arabia, and no doubt destroy the
carefully crafted coalition presently hunting for Osama bin Laden in
Afghanistan. FRONTLINE investigates America's other enemy, Saddam Hussein.
To order, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/tapes.html
or call 1-800-328-7271
Spying on Saddam. 1999/ 60 minutes/ PBS-FRONTLINE
"Spying on Saddam" chronicles the UN's dramatic, thwarted
eight-year long effort to find and dismantle Saddam Hussein's secret
weapons of mass destruction. While the achievements of the UN weapons
inspection mission (UNSCOM) were considerable--destroying more of Iraq's
weapons than were eliminated in the Gulf War--it fell short in getting
all of Hussein's deadly arsenal. And, in December 1998, Iraq expelled
all UNSCOM weapons inspectors charging that UNSCOM has become a spy
agency. This FRONTLINE report traces the history of UNSCOM--from its
birth at the end of the Gulf War, to its daring inspections and confrontations
with the Iraqi military, to the final events leading up to the expulsion.
Through interviews with the heads of UNSCOM, journalists, and policy
experts on Iraq, it also tracks how politics, quarrels and turf wars
involving the UN, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency
and Israel effectively undermined and ended UNSCOM.
To order, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/etc/tapes.html
or call 1-800-328-7271
SUMMARY
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