Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


20 January Iraq Special Weapons News

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Foreign Reactions
News Reports

Current Operations

Deployments

  • 4th Infantry Division and Other Support Units Receive Deployment Orders III Corps and Fort Hood Press Release 20 Jan 2003-- The 4th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Hood and its 3rd Brigade at Fort Carson, Colo., as well as various other supporting units, known collectively as Task Force Ironhorse, have received deployment orders to reposition forces as required to support the President's global war against terrorism.

US Policy

  • U-S / IRAQ VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- The United States stepped up diplomatic efforts Monday to get reluctant countries to recognize what its says is Iraq's failure to fully cooperate with last November's U-N disarmament resolution. Secretary of State Colin Powell took the lead in the effort with talks at the United Nations
  • Transcript: Powell Says Iraq Still Not Complying With U.N. Resolution Washington File 20 Jan 2003-- POWELL: No, let's do one at a time. As 1441 lays out clearly, Iraq has an obligation to provide to the inspectors all the information that they need to do their job. Iraq has an obligation to have submitted a complete, accurate declaration. Iraq has an obligation to create conditions within Iraq so the inspectors can do their work and not guess at where things might be. And so far, Iraq is not complying with the obligations it has under 1441.
  • Powell: Iraq's Actions to Date "Just More of the Same" Washington File 20 Jan 2003-- January report not the beginning, secretary of state says
  • Rumsfeld: Time Running Out for Iraq; Reserve Support Needed AFPS 19 Jan 2003-- Time is running out for Saddam Hussein to disarm, and any military solution is likely to draw heavily from the Guard and Reserve, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
  • Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks To The Reserve Officers Association 20 Jan 2003-- Rumsfeld: For more than a decade, the international community has tried every possible means to dissuade Iraq from its weapons of mass destruction ambitions. Think of it. We have tried diplomacy; economic sanctions, embargoes; positive inducements, such as the "oil for food" program; inspections; and limited military efforts, including the northern, and southern no-fly zones. Each of these approaches have been unsuccessful.
  • Text: Rumsfeld Says Iraq, North Korea Require Different Approaches Washington File 20 Jan 2003-- "No living dictator has shown the deadly combination of capability and intent -- of aggression against his neighbors; pursuit of weapons of mass destruction; the use of weapons of mass destruction; oppression of his own people; support of terrorism; and the most threatening hostility to its neighbors and to the United States, than Saddam Hussein," said Rumsfeld in remarks to the Reserve Officers Association.
  • Transcript: Powell, Counterparts Talk Terrorism, Iraq, North Korea Washington File 20 Jan 2003-- State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher spokes to the press the evening of January 19 following a series of bilateral meetings between Secretary of State Colin Powell and several foreign ministers.

United Nations

Foreign Reactions

  • BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- Britain says it will send another 26-thousand troops to the Persian Gulf region to step up pressure on Iraq to disarm. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon made the announcement in parliament
  • U-S/TURKEY/IRAQ VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- The Chairman of the U-S Joint Chiefs of Staff says the United States is not impatient with Turkey's position on war with Iraq, as news reports have suggested
  • Contingency preparations: deployment of land forces 20 Jan 2003-- The Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon MP, announced in the House of Commons on 20 January that, as part of further contingency preparations in relation to Iraq, a substantial land force of some 26,000 personnel were to be deployed.

News Reports

  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 6, Number 2 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 20 January 2003 -- 'BABIL' NEWSPAPER ACKNOWLEDGES U.S. E-MAIL CAMPAIGN / IRAQ REPORTS SIX CITIZENS WOUNDED BY U.S.-U.K. AIR RAIDS / IRAQI OPPOSITION DELAYS IRAQI CONGRESS / SCIRI OFFICIAL CRITICIZES U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN OPPOSITION MEETING / SCIRI REPRESENTATIVE SAYS IRAQ STORING WEAPONS IN CIVILIAN AREAS / TALABANI ON IRAN, OPPOSITION, OIL / AL-SULAYMANIYAH GOVERNORATE HEAD SAYS ARAB LEADERS TOOK WRONG APPROACH / U.S. TO BEGIN TRAINING IRAQIS IN HUNGARY... / ...AS IRAQIS CONTINUE TO ARRIVE AT BORDERS / HUNGARIAN SECRET SERVICE LAUNCHES PROBE INTO LEAK OF FALSE INFORMATION... / ...AS HUNGARIAN OFFICIAL CLARIFIES TASZAR ACTIVITIES / GERMANS ON TRIAL FOR ATTEMPTED WMD SALE / CZECH MILITARY REPORTS SAY IRAQ HAS SMALLPOX VIRUS IN WEAPONS STOCKPILE / BELARUS DENIES HAVING SENT MILITARY CARGO TO IRAQ / ANSAR AL-ISLAM LEADER VOWS TO USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS IF U.S. TROOPS INVADE IRAQ / AL-QAEDA DOCUMENT FOUND IN KABUL HIGHLIGHTS ANSAR AL-ISLAM STRUGGLE IN KURDISTAN / IRAQI PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SAYS INSPECTORS SEEK INTELLIGENCE THROUGH QUESTIONS / IRAQ TV REPORTS ON 12TH VISIT TO AL-QA'QA STATE COMPANY / NATIONAL MONITORING DIRECTORATE HEAD GIVES BRIEFING ON INSPECTIONS / UN INSPECTORS UNCOVER EMPTY WARHEADS / INSPECTORS SEARCH SITE BELONGING TO MUJAHEDIN KHALQ ORGANIZATION / UN INSPECTORS CHECK SCIENTISTS' HOMES / IRAQI SCIENTIST SAYS INSPECTORS SEARCH OF HIS HOME WAS 'PROVOCATIVE.' / UNMOVIC HEAD SAYS IRAQ MUST COME CLEAN... / ...AND INSPECTORS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION... / ...AND THAT SECURITY COUNCIL WILL DECIDE ON CONTINUING INSPECTIONS / UNMOVIC OFFICIALS HINT THAT UNDECLARED SITES IN IRAQ WILL BE CHECKED / IAEA OFFICIAL SAYS ONE YEAR NEEDED FOR INSPECTIONS / IAEA CHIEF DISCUSSES IRAQ IN MOSCOW. / BRITISH PREMIER SAYS IRAQ MUST COOPERATE OR BE 'DISARMED BY FORCE.' / IRAQ OIL-FOR-FOOD EXPORTS AT $174 MILLION FOR BEGINNING OF JANUARY / IRAQI PRESIDENT MEETS WITH TURKISH MINISTER / TARIQ AZIZ LEAVES ALGERIA, PROCEEDS TO TUNISIA / JORDANIAN CHIEFTAINS MEET WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT DURING SOLIDARITY VISIT / JORDANIAN KING SAYS CHANCES TO AVOID WAR IN IRAQ 'SLIM.' / ARE IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS ORCHESTRATING COUP? / BARZANI HOLDS TALKS IN TURKEY, SYRIA / TURKEY STUDIES PAST TREATIES TO JUSTIFY CLAIMS TO OIL FIELDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ / TURKISH-U.S. DEAL ON IRAQ?
  • ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT PART 1 VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- As more U-S troops are preparing to go to the Persian Gulf for a possible war with Iraq, another group is mobilizing: the anti-war movement. From mothers to veterans, Catholic Cardinals to students, Republicans to Democrats, the movement is growing in size and breadth
  • IRAQ/RESIGN REACT VOA 20 Jan 2003 -- A top Iraqi envoy has dismissed speculation that President Saddam Hussein might resign and go into exile. Edward Yeranian reports from Beirut, where a special Iraqi envoy is visiting