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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


June 1999

  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire 28 Jun 1999 (AFPN) -- Operation Northern Watch F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 precision-guided munitions on an Iraqi military command-and-control site southwest of Mosul.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire (28 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 precision guided munitions on an Iraqi military command and control site southwest of Mosul.
  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 23 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 25 June 1999 -- SECURITY COUNCIL CONTINUES TO DISCUSS SANCTIONS / "UNIFIED IRAQI GROUPING" TO MEET / KURDISH GROUPS CONVENE AGAIN IN WASHINGTON / MURDER CASTS LIGHT ON ASSYRIAN-KURDISH RELATIONS / ASSYRIANS TO UNITE FOR KURDISTAN CENSUS? / IRAQ'S OIL PRODUCTION INCREASING / A "SECRET ARMY" IN IRAQ?
  • EDITORIAL: IRAQ SANCTIONS RESOLUTION VOICE OF AMERICA 25 June 1999 -- THE SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD GIVE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO A RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY BRITAIN AND CO-SPONSORED BY THE NETHERLANDS, SLOVENIA, AND ARGENTINA. ANY RESOLUTION IT ADOPTS WOULD HAVE TO INSURE THAT IRAQ COMPLIES WITH ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER ALL EXISTING RESOLUTIONS.
  • Iraq News 25 June 1999 -- In response to a question from Sen. Brownback, Jones clarified the limited nature of the US commitment to protecting Kurdish-held Northern Iraq or to helping insure that the Iraqi opposition will be able to operate there.
  • AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN UN AND GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ ON COMPOSITION OF TECHNICAL MISSION TO INSPECT AND CLEAN UP UNSCOM'S BAGHDAD LABORATORIES 24 June 1999 Press Release SG/SM/7044 IK/277 -- The mission will be conducted by independent technical experts, who will be accompanied by United Nations staff, as well as three diplomatic observers.
  • DoD News Briefing Thursday, June 24, 1999 -- In April in Operation Southern Watch, coalition forces responded seven times to provocations from Iraq. That is, they attacked targets seven times in the south in April, four times in May, and six times in June to date, including one yesterday. So that's a total of 17 strikes in April, May and June. In Operation Northern Watch, the number is 28, including a most recent strike in the north on June 22nd.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI AGGRESSION UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 24, 1999 -- U.S. Navy F-14s and F/A-18s, U.S. Air Force F-16s, and British Royal Air Force GR-1s patrolling the Southern No-Fly Zone used precision guided munitions to strike five military targets in Southern Iraq.
  • TEXT: STATE DEPARTMENT'S JONES ON IRAQ POLICY AT SENATE HEARING USIA 23 June 1999 -- Beth Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, reiterated the Administration's Iraq policy before the Senate Foreign Relations Near East and South Asia subcommittee June 23.
  • SENATE-IRAQVOICE OF AMERICA 23 June 1999 -- THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION IS REJECTING CALLS TO GIVE IRAQI RESISTANCE GROUPS WEAPONS AND TRAINING ALONG WITH NON-LETHAL HELP.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI PROVOCATION UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 23, 1999 Coalition aircraft patrolling the Southern No-Fly Zone in Iraq, U.S. Navy F-14s, U.S. Air Force F-16s, and British Royal Air Force GR-1s used precision guided munitions to strike five military targets in Southern Iraq.
  • Iraq News 23 June 1999 -- Testimony of Ahmad Chalabi before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 23, 1999
  • Iraq News 23 June 1999 -- Statement of Rend Rahim Francke, Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, June 23, 1999
  • Iraq News 22 June 1999 -- This issue deals with UNSC efforts to develop a new resolution that would provide for the return to Iraq of a modified UNSCOM, as well as US policy on Iraq.
  • Coalition attacks in north, south (AFPN) 22 Jun 1999 -- Coalition aircraft patrolling Iraq's northern and southern no-fly zones came under fire June 21 and 22, both times responding with precision-guided munitions to strike military targets. Coalition and Iraqi forces have clashed more than 190 times since the end of Operation Desert Fox in December.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (22 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 precision guided munitions on an Iraqi military command and control site southwest of Mosul.
  • UN/ IRAQVOICE OF AMERICA 22 June 1999 -- AT THE UNITED NATIONS TODAY (TUESDAY), BRITAIN FORMALLY INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO EASE SANCTIONS ON IRAQI EXPORTS -- SUCH AS OIL -- IF BAGHDAD COMPLIES WITH U-N RESOLUTIONS REQUIRING IRAQ TO ELIMINATE ITS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
  • U-N / IRAQ / UNSCOM VOICE OF AMERICA 21 June 1999 -- THE UNITED NATIONS APPEARS TO BE NEARING AN AGREEMENT WITH IRAQ FOR THE REMOVAL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES LEFT IN BAGHDAD BY THE U-N WEAPONS INSPECTIONS COMMISSION, UNSCOM.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 21, 1999 - U.S. Navy F/A-18 "Hornet" aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly Zone used precision guided munitions to strike two Iraqi Surface-to-Air Missile sites approximately 150 miles south of Baghdad in the vicinity of As Samawah.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (21 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-12 laser guided bombs on an Iraqi military command and control site north of Mosul. Additionally, an Air Force F-16CJ Fighting Falcon launched an AGM-88 high-speed anti-radiation missile (HARM) at an Iraqi surface-to-air missile radar site east of Mosul.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar and AAA fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (18 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-12 laser guided bombs on an Iraqi radar facility east of Mosul.
  • TEXT: NSC DIRECTOR RIEDEL'S JUNE 18 SPEECH ON IRAQ AND US POLICY USIA 18 June 1999 -- Saddam Hussein's regime has a proven track record of misrule and as a threat to international standards of behavior and it must be prevented from achieving its goals of dominating the Gulf and enforcing its will on the people of the Middle East, says Bruce Riedel, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).
  • Iraq News 17 June 1999 -- Under the Clinton administration, starting with the Feb 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a new explanation for terrorism emerged. The claim is that major acts of terrorism are no longer state-sponsored. Rather, there is a new phenomenon, "loose networks." Yet it is the view of "Iraq News" that Iraq is working with Muslim extremists and that several major terrorist incidents attributed to them alone are better explained by Muslim extremists plus Iraq.
  • REMARKS BY PRESIDENT CLINTON AND PRESIDENT CHIRAC IN JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY June 17, 1999 -- The United States supports the efforts of the British and the Dutch and the Security Council because we believe that without the strongest possible inspection mechanism, Saddam Hussein will attempt to rebuild weapons of mass destruction stocks -- particularly in the chemical and biological areas, and perhaps missile technology, as well. President Chirac believes that if the British-Dutch resolution were to pass, that it would simply be not accepted by Saddam Hussein, and so we would still be at an impasse. So there is a difference of opinion there.
  • U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing 17 June 1999 -- We haven't changed neither our policy nor our attitude towards the Iraqi regime in any way whatsoever. In mid-April the Netherlands and the United Kingdom jointly circulated ideas for a resolution incorporating key suggestions of the three Iraq assessment panels. , The UK-Netherlands text calls for partial suspension of sanctions following Iraqi compliance with disarmament requirements; not merely Iraq's agreeing that a disarmament regime will go forward or will be present in the country. No, it's predicated on Iraq actually meeting the outstanding obligations that exist.
  • US WOULD SUPPORT SUSPENSION OF IRAQI SANCTIONS USIA 16 June 1999 --The United States will support a resolution allowing for the suspension of sanctions against Iraq if Baghdad cooperates with the United Nations in eliminating its weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Ambassador Peter Burleigh said June 16.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI AGGRESSION UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 16, 1999 -- U.S. Navy F/A-18 "Hornet" and British Royal Air Force GR-1 "Tornado" aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly Zone used precision guided munitions to strike three Iraqi military targets in Southern Iraq.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (15 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-12 precision guided amunitions on Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery sites southeast of Mosul.
  • Iraq News 12 June 1999 -- SADDAM SPEECH TO ARMY -- Saddam Urges Reserve of 'Prepared Men'
  • Iraq News 11 June 1999 -- How do sanctions prevent Saddam from reconstituting his WMD capabilities, as "Iraq News," May 4 asked? Notably, Indyk said nothing about restoring UNSCOM or even a modified UNSCOM to Iraq. "Iraq News" believes that that is no longer a US goal.
  • IRAQ OPPOSITION ATTACK Voice of America 09 June 1999 -- FOUR MEMBERS OF AN EXILED IRANIAN OPPOSITION GROUP BASED IN IRAQ HAVE REPORTEDLY BEEN KILLED IN A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLOSION. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MUJAHEDIN KHALQ SAYS 23 OTHER MEMBERS WERE WOUNDED.
  • Coalition attacks in northern, southern Iraq 9 Jun 1999 (AFPN) These hostile acts represent the latest of more than 190 provocations in the no-fly zones since Operation Desert Fox ended in December.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire (9 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-12 laser-guided munitions on Iraqi military command and control facilities north of Mosul.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT REACT TO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 9, 1999 -- U.S. Air Force F-16s used precision guided munitions to strike two targets in the vicinity of As Samawah.
  • Iraq News 09 June 1999 -- The Saudi Arabian crown prince days after Operation Desert Fox ended, warned President Clinton in a private letter that the December bombing had made Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein stronger internationally and divided the old Persian Gulf war coalition. It is worth recalling that the Israeli response at roughly the same time was similar.
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire (8 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-12 precision-guided munitions on Iraqi military communication facilities east of Mosul.
  • Coalition counters Iraqi aggression 07 June 1999 -- Navy F/A-18 Hornet and British Royal Air Force GR-1 Tornado aircraft used precision-guided munitions to strike an Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery site about 150 miles south of Baghdad near As Samawah, and an Iraqi surface-to-air missile site about 180 miles southeast of Baghdad in the vicinity of An Nasiriyah.
  • U-N / IRAQ / BUTLER Voice of America 07 June 1999 -- THE UNITED NATIONS' CHIEF WEAPONS INSPECTOR FOR IRAQ, RICHARD BUTLER, IS LEAVING HIS JOB AND PLANS TO WRITE A BOOK ON HIS RECENT EXPERIENCES WITH IRAQ AND THE UNITED NATIONS.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI AGGRESSION UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 6, 1999 -- U.S. Navy F/A-18 "Hornet" and British Royal Air Force GR-1 "Tornado" aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly Zone used precision guided munitions to strike an Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery site approximately 150 miles south of Baghdad near As Samawah, and an Iraqi Surface-to-Air Missile site approximately 180 miles southeast of Baghdad in the vicinity of An Nasiriyah.
  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 22 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 4 June 1999 -- PKK ACTIVISM IN IRAQ AND OCALAN TRIAL / TIGRIS-EUPHRATES ISSUE RESURFACES / IRAQI TURKOMAN FRONT LEADER VISITS WASHINGTON / SADDAM HUSSEYN REARMING? / IRAQ BEGINS EXPLOITATION OF QORNA OIL FIELDS / 'DAY AFTER GUYS' COMMENT SPARKS CRITICISM
  • Iraq News 04 June 1999 -- AMB. BUTLER LETTER TO UNSC ON UNSCOM LAB, REP. BEN GILMAN, ON PROPOSED DRAWDOWN UNDER THE ILA, SEN. BOB KERREY, ON MEETING WITH IRAQI OPPOSITION
  • Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire (3 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 precision guided munitions on Iraqi military command and control facilities south of Mosul.
  • U-N / IRAQ / WEAPONS Voice of America 02 June 1999 -- CHIEF UNITED NATIONS WEAPONS INSPECTOR RICHARD BUTLER WANTS TO SEND A SPECIAL TEAM TO IRAQ TO DISPOSE OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES LEFT THERE BY HIS WORKERS IN DECEMBER. THE PROPOSAL WAS MADE TODAY (WEDNESDAY) TO THE U-N SECURITY COUNCIL.
  • Coalition aircraft targeted by Iraqi radar (2 June 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 precision guided munitions on Iraqi military command and control facilities south of Mosul.
  • UN/UNSCOM/ RUSSIA Voice of America 01 June 1999 -- IN NEW YORK TODAY (TUESDAY), RUSSIA CALLED FOR AN EMERGENCY MEETNG OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THE CHEMICALS U-N WEAPONS INSPECTORS MAY HAVE LEFT BEHINDIN IRAQ.
  • COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI PROVOCATION June 1, 1999 RELEASE NUMBER: 99-06-01 - At approximately 3:15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time today, a U.S. Air Force F-16CG "Fighting Falcon" aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly Zone used precision guided munitions to strike an Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery site about 150 miles southeast of Baghdad near As Samawah.




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