MILNET: Further Info/News Briefings - Iraq

Key Documents - November 1998 Crisis

• U.N. Letter to Iraq
• Clinton Statement
• Forces Arrayed

Key Documents - November 1997 Crisis

• U.N. Accuses Iraq of Tampering With Cameras - SecDef Cohen - Crisis Begins - 11/06/97
• Proliferation: Threat and Response Briefing - SecDef Cohen Discusses WMD Threat from Iraq - 11/25/98
• Proliferation: Threat and Response - DoD Info on countries with Weapons of Mass Destruction - 11/25/97.
• Secretary of State Warns Iraq - 01/28/98
• Mideast Forces - February 1998
• Allied Forces in Gulf - February 1998
• MILNET: The Last Event - 2/17/98
• UN Signs Memorandum of Undestanding - 2/23/98

Further Info

• Recent Events - Iraq bars U.N. Inspectors
• U.N. Special Commission on Iraq - Mirror Copy of Mission Statement
• Quick Fact Sheet on UNSCOM...What they have accomplished
• Iraqi Missile Threat Regions - From the Middle East - North Africa section of the DoD document,
  The New Threat From Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
• U.N. Security Council Resolution 778 (10/2/92)
• U.S. Central Command Detailed Overview from 1994-1995 Air University School Year
  Combat Commands Informational Series
• Presidential Directive 12722, 12724, and 12817 detailing sanctions against Iraq

News Briefings

• U.S. Position on U.N. Secretary General's Visit to Iraq - 02/17/98
• President Prepares the American Public - 02/17/98
• More Troops on the Way - 02/17/98
• JSTARS and RIVET JOINT on the Way - 02/12/98
• Nimitz on its way home - 02/10/98
• Support among Arab nations - 02/09/98
• SecDef Cohen: Plan to have only two carriers in Gulf...Nimitz will rotate home - 02/09/98
• Pentagon - Summary of Allied forces in Gulf Region in February.
• White House - British Prime Minister supports U.S. military option if Iraq does not comply - 02/05/98.

January 1998

• Secretary of State Warns Iraq
• DoD Press Briefing - Jan 27, 1998
• State Department, January 26, 1998 - "One More Attempt to Persuade Iraq to Comply"
• White House Briefing, January 26, 1998 - " We are increasingly exhausting options that diplomacy could bring..."

November 1997

• Proliferation: Threat and Response - SecDef releases WMD report.
• Proliferation: Threat and Response - The actual report mirrored on MILNET.
• DoD, November 10, 1997 - Iraqi threats to down U-2
• USIS - DoD Breifing, November 10, 1997 - Al Gore on U.N. Resolutions
• USIS - White House Daily, November 10, 1997 - Travel Restrictions on Iraq
• DoD, November 6, 1997 - More on Inspection Crisis

October 1997

• USIS - October 1997 UN News U.S. Pressing for more sanctions
• USIS - October 1997 - UNSCOM: List of Iraqi Weapons Violations
• DoD - September 30, 1997 News Briefing - Iranian Aircraft Cross into Iraqi Airspace

Earlier Iraqi Events and News