Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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December

November

• Iraq Urged to Reveal Intentions on Oil Exports USIA 29 November 1991
• UN Ends Talks on Iraqi Chemical Weapons USIA 27 November 1991
• US still wants Saddam Hussein removed from power in Iraq USIA 25 November 1991
• VOA Editorial: Iraq Still Defies UN Resolutions USIA 22 November 1991
• Bush Says Iraq May Still Have Concealed Missiles USIA 18 November 1991
• Inspections Succeed in Checking Iraqi Weapons Program USIA 13 November 1991

  October

• UN Official Foresees Long-Term Monitoring of Iraq USIA 29 October 1991
• UN Official Foresees Long Term Monitoring of Iraq USIA 28 October 1991
• "IAEA Head Describes Iraq's Nuclear Programs USIA 21 October 1991
• IAEA Official Says Iraq Still Withholding Information USIA 18 October 1991
• VOA Editorial: Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Program USIA 17 October 1991
• IAEA Team Finds Evidence of H-Bomb Work in Iraq USIA 08 October 1991
• US Official Says Saddam Hussein Lying About Weapons USIA 08 October 1991
• Statement of IAEA Director General at informal consultations in the Security Council regarding Iraq and Resolutions 687 and 707 (1991) New York, USA 8 October 1991

  September

• Editorial: Poison Gas and Iraq USIA 30 September 1991
• Security Council Insists Iraq Let Inspectors Leave USIA 26 September 1991
• UN Team Found 'Gold Mines' of Evidence in Iraq USIA 25 September 1991
• Iraq Continues to Violate United Nations Resolutions USIA 25 September 1991
• VOA Editorial: No Compromise on Iraq USIA 24 September 1991
• "Iraq Blocking Weapons Inspections by UN Team USIA 23 September 1991
• Baker Says Iraqi Move 'Extraordinarily Regrettable' USIA 23 September 1991
• The administration's announcement that it is prepared to send US warplanes into Iraq to protect UN helicopters and UN inspectors searching for Iraqi weaponry USIA 19 September 1991
• Security Council Approves Iraqi Oil Sales Plan USIA 19 September 1991
• Pickering Says Oil Sale Meant to Help Iraqi Civilians USIA 19 September 1991
• Talks Underway Regarding Iraqi Weapons Inspections USIA 18 September 1991
• Iraq's violation of the cease-fire agreement with the UN releases the other parties to the agreement from their obligations, according to US Ambassador Thomas Pickering USIA 18 September 1991
• US, Council Members Weighing Next Steps Against Iraq USIA 18 September 1991
• White House Reports on Sanctions, Arms Exports to Iraq USIA White House report on the international export to Iraq of nuclear, biological and chemical and ballistic missile technology and report on sanctions taken by other countries against Iraq.(91-09-17)

  August

• VOA Editorial: Kelly on Iraq USIA 28 August 1991
• UN Approves Limited Oil Sales by Iraq USIA 19 August 1991
• UN Approves Limited Oil Sales by Iraq USIA 15 August 1991
• UN Demands Full Iraqi Disclosure of Weapons Programs USIA 15 August 1991
• UN Team Confirms Iraq's Biological Arms Capability USIA 14 August 1991
• US Wants New Iraqi Leadership, but Won't Intervene USIA 02 August 1991
• US Favors Change in Iraqi Leadership, Aide Says USIA 02 August 1991
• Gulf Crisis: Chronology for June, July 1991 USIA 02 August 1991
• Iraqi Regime Hinders Relief Effort, US Official Says USIA 01 August 1991

  July

• UN Team Finds Large Stores of Iraqi Chemical Weapons USIA 31 July 1991
• Statement of IAEA Director General Hans Blix in informal meeting of the UN Security Council (Inspections in Iraq) New York, USA 30 July 1991
• Iraqi Non-Compliance With UN Security Council Resolutions USIA 29 July 1991
• Security Council to Consider Special Sale of Iraqi Oil USIA 24 July 1991
• Iraqi Answers on Human Rights Abuses Unsatisfactory USIA 24 July 1991
• VOA Editorial: Coalition's Role in Iraq Continues USIA 19 July 1991
• UN Special Commission set up to destroy Iraq's nuclear weapons program still questioning Iraq's nuclear claims USIA 19 July 1991
• Aid to Iraq Must Be Controlled Externally, Says US. USIA 18 July 1991
• Pickering Testifies on Gulf Cease-Fire Implementation USIA 18 July 1991
• US Wants Continued Sanctions Against Iraq USIA 18 July 1991
• Bush Remains Suspicious of Iraq's Nuclear Capability USIA 17 July 1991
• Summit Leaders Will Keep Sanctions Against Iraq USIA 16 July 1991
• Iraq Nuclear Program Data Still Incomplete, UN Told USIA 16 July 1991
• VOA Editorial: Iraqi Nuclear Threat USIA 15 July 1991
• Statement of IAEA Director General Hans Blix in informal consultations of the UN Security Council regarding Iraq and Resolution 687 (1991) New York, USA 15 July 1991
• Iraq Should Pay for Its Own Emergency Programs USIA 15 July 1991
• Iraq Warned to Keep Peace as Allies Depart USIA 12 July 1991
• VOA Editorial: Iraqi Crisis USIA 10 July 1991
• Iraq's nuclear program and the effects of the 1983 Israeli attack on Iraqi nuclear sites USIA 10 July 1991
• US Demands Full Disclosure of Iraqi Nuclear Activities USIA 09 July 1991

  June

• US Military Action Against Iraq Not First Option USIA 30 June 1991
• Security Council decided June 28 to send a special mission to Baghdad USIA 28 June 1991
• US Condemns Iraq's Hostile Action Against UN Team USIA 28 June 1991
• Iraq Seeks to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, US Says USIA 27 June 1991
• Security Council Says Iraq Must Abide by UN Measures USIA 27 June 1991
• Security Council Sets Up Iraqi Arms Embargo Regime USIA 17 June 1991
• IAEA TO CONDUCT NEW SEARCHES FOR IRAQI WEAPONS USIA 17 June 1991
• Iraq Not Fully Complying With UN Demands, US Says USIA 11 June 1991
• Iraq Reportedly Diverts Food Aid Shipments USIA 05 June 1991

  May

• COMMISSION REPORTS ON DESTRUCTION OF IRAQI WEAPONS USIA 20 May 1991
• Commission to Oversee Iraq's Payment of War Claims USIA 20 May 1991
• Iraq Cannot Have Peace with Saddam Hussein in Power USIA 09 May 1991
• UN Commission to Destroy Iraqi Weapons Begins Work USIA 09 May 1991
• Hastened Peace, Freedom Wanted for Kurdish Refugees USIA 09 May 1991

  April

• UN Launches Gulf Observer Force: UNIKOM USIA 17 April 1991
• Quayle: Military Intervention in Iraq Would Be Unwise USIA 11 April 1991
• UN Observers Head for Iraq, Kuwait USIA 11 April 1991
• WHY AMERICA CAN'T SAVE THE KURDS By Daniel Pipes THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 11 April 1991
• Statement by President Bush on UN Security Council Resolution 687 USIA 08 April 1991
•  Iraq Approval Starts Peace Schedule The New York Times (Apr. 7, 1991)
• US will not intervene in Iraq's internal affairs USIA 05 April 1991
• VOA Editorial: UN Cease-Fire Resolution USIA 05 April 1991
• US Forces Won't Intervene in Iraq's Civil War USIA 04 April 1991
• Bush Hails UN Gulf Cease-Fire Resolution USIA 04 April 1991
• Iraq Must Have New Leadership, Kimmitt Says USIA 04 April 1991

  March

• Witnesses Document Atrocities During Iraqi Occupation USIA 27 March 1991
• Brutal Suppression of Dissent in Iraq Criticized USIA 12 March 1991
•  After the War: Politics; Another Gulf War? The New York Times (Mar. 10, 1991)
• U.S. PRESS OPINION: IRAQI REBELLION USIA 06 March 1991
• Situation 'Fluid' in Southeast Iraq, Kurdish North USIA 06 March 1991
• UNCHR to Vote on Iraqi Human Rights Violations USIA 05 March 1991

  February

• THE GULF CRISIS Noam Chomsky Z Magazine, February 1991
•  Allies Destroy Iraqis' Main Force; Kuwait Is Retaken After 7 Months The New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991)
•  Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed The New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991)
•  For a Jubilant Crowd in Kuwait City, It's Victory Signs, Tears and Kisses The New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991)
•  American and British Troops Gird for an Iraqi Last Stand The New York Times (Feb. 27, 1991)
• Saddam Hussein's Speech on Withdrawal from Kuwait February 26, 1991
• "Kelly: To End War, Iraq Must Accept UN Resolutions USIA 26 February 1991
• Unarmed Iraqi Troops May Retreat Safely USIA 26 February 1991
• Iraq May Have Used Civil Satellite for War Aims USIA 26 February 1991
• Doctors See No Malnutrition Among Iraqi Children USIA 26 February 1991
• US Awaits Assurances Withdrawal Is Genuine USIA 26 February 1991
• Security Council Awaits Iraq Acceptance of Resolutions USIA 25 February 1991
• White House Dismisses Reported Iraqi Peace Announcement USIA 25 February 1991
• Iraq Given One Week for Total Withdrawal from Kuwait USIA 22 February 1991
• Allies Demand Unconditional Iraqi Pullout from Kuwait USIA 22 February 1991
• SADDAM HUSSEIN OFFER "A CRUEL HOAX" USIA 15 February 1991
• Iraqi Statement on Gulf War a 'Cruel Hoax,' Bush Says USIA 15 February 1991
• Cheney Affirms Baghdad Target Was Military Facility USIA 14 February 1991
• Israeli Defense Secretary Arens says his country cannot make any commitments not to retaliate against Iraq for repeated Scud missile attacks USIA 11 February 1991
• Air War Target Is Iraq's Strategic Capacity USIA 11 February 1991
• Bush Rules Out Shifting Now to Gulf Ground Campaign USIA 11 February 1991
• U.N. CRITICIZES TRANSCRIPT RELEASE USIA 11 February 1991
• Gulf Crisis: Chronology for January, 1991 USIA 11 February 1991
• Iraq Still Capable of Launching Surprise Offensive USIA 10 February 1991
• Gulf Crisis: Chronology for January, 1991 USIA 05 February 1991
• Iraq Taking Advantage of Allied Air Strike Policy USIA 04 February 1991
• Conflict in the Gulf: the Khafji Offensive USIA 04 February 1991
• Iraq Using Civilian Convoys to Move War Materiel USIA 04 February 1991
• VOA Editorial: Iraq, a State Ruled by Terror USIA 04 February 1991
• DISINFORMATION INTEGRAL PART OF IRAQI STRATEGY USIA 04 February 1991

  January

• UNITED STATES ARMS SALES TO IRAQ: EXCERPTS OF RECENT CBS `60 MINUTES' BROADCAST (House of Representatives - January 31, 1991)
•  Excerpts From Saddam Hussein's Comments on the Gulf War The New York Times (Jan. 31, 1991)
• Iraqi Pullout Must Remain Goal of World Community USIA 29 January 1991
• IRAQ FLIES 69 AIRCRAFT TO NEUTRAL IRAN USIA 28 January 1991
• Allied Air Campaign Forcing Iraqi Planes to Iran USIA 27 January 1991
• Iraq Intentionally Creating Gulf Oil Disaster USIA 26 January 1991
• US Condemns Iraqi Missile Attacks Against Israel USIA 25 January 1991
• How Iraq Built Its War Machine USIA 25 January 1991
• House Assails Iraq for Scud Attacks, POW Treatment USIA 25 January 1991
• Kuwait Is Not a Province of Iraq, Kuwaiti Envoy Reaffirms USIA 25 January 1991
• Bush Says Iraq Missile Attacks Are 'Brutal Terrorism' USIA 23 January 1991
• Bush Calls Soviet Proposals 'Useful;' Allies Continue War Plans USIA 22 January 1991
• US Admires Israeli Restraint After Scud Attacks USIA 21 January 1991
• US Downs Scuds, Allies Press Air Attacks USIA 21 January 1991
•  U.S. and Allies Open Air War on Iraq; Bomb Baghdad and Kuwaiti Targets The New York Times (Jan. 17, 1991)
•  Raids, on a Huge Scale, Seek to Destroy Iraqi Missiles The New York Times (Jan. 17, 1991)
• Perez de Cuellar Mission 'Unsuccessful' USIA 14 January 1991
• The Gulf Crisis: A Chronology USIA 14 January 1991
• Congress Approves Using Force Against Iraq USIA 13 January 1991