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July 1999

• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 28 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 30 July 1999 -- IRAQI PARANOIA ABOUT BIOLOGICAL WAR / SUDAN TO REOPEN KUWAIT EMBASSY / IRAQ, BELARUS SIGN NEW AGREEMENT / BOSNIAN SERB-IRAQI COOPERATION INAUGURATED / UDAYY RESURFACES / U.S. OIL FIRMS CLOSED OUT OF IRAQ INVESTING / SAUDI PRESS ATTACKS SADDAM / NEW IRAQI 'YOUTH ARMY' TO PROTECT CITIES / PKK COMMANDER ON PUK, KDP / PKK-SOUTH ORGANIZATION IN NORTHERN IRAQ
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (30 Jul 99) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on AAA sites north and northwest of Mosul.
• COALITION RESPONDS TO IRAQI PROVOCATION IN SOUTHERN NO-FLY ZONE UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND July 30, 1999 -- U.S. Air Force F-16 "Fighting Falcons," U.S. Navy FA-18 "Hornets" and F-14 "Tomcats," and Royal Air Force GR-1 aircraft aircraft struck an Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery site and an Iraqi military communications site. The coalition strikes were conducted near Abu Sukhayr and Ad Darraji.
• INDIA IRAQ U-N Voice of America 30 July 1999 -- India says it has no intention of breaking U-N sanctions on Iraq and will only extend credit to Baghdad if the United Nations approves.
• DoD News Briefing July 29, 1999 -- I don't have numbers of weapons dropped, but this is coalition responses to Iraqi provocation for all of 1999.

                  January February March April   May    June    July
  SOUTHERN WATCH     5      12      6      7       4      7       2
  NORTHERN WATCH    12       8      8      8      10      9      10
  

• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (29 Jul 99) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on AAA sites north of Mosul.
• COALITION RESPONDS TO IRAQI PROVOCATION IN SOUTHERN NO-FLY ZONE UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND July 29, 1999 -- U.S. Air Force F-16 "Fighting Falcons," U.S. Navy FA-18 "Hornets" and F-14 "Tomcats," and Royal Air Force GR-1 aircraft using precision guided munitions struck three Iraqi military communication sites and one Iraqi military radar site. The strikes were conducted near the towns of Al Jarrah, Al Kut, and Al Numinayah.
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (28 Jul 99) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on an AAA emplacement and a communication site. The two different sites were both north of Mosul.
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (27 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on command and control sites south of Mosul and anti-aircraft artillery sites southeast of Mosul.
• Security Council Allows Destruction of VX Samples in Iraq By Judy Aita USIA 27 July 1999 -- After a week of lengthy closed-door debate, the Security Council July 27 agreed to allow seven vials of the deadly nerve gas VX in a U.N. lab in Baghdad to be destroyed.
• RED CROSS / IRAQ Voice of America 27 July 1999 -- The International Committee of the Red Cross - I-C-R-C - says the civilian population of Iraq is continuing to suffer an alarming deterioration of its living conditions as the country enters the 10th year under the United Nations' embargo.
• U-N - IRAQ - V-X Voice of America 27 July 1999 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Tuesday) allowed an international weapons team to proceed with the destruction of V-X nerve gas samples in Baghdad. The decision to allow destruction of the samples was made despite protests from Russia, China and France.
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (26 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16CJ Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on a communication site north of Mosul.
• SAUDI PRESS ATTACKS SADDAM Iraq News 24 July 1999 -- Since Saddam's Jul 17 Nat'l day speech, the Iraqi media has not reported any more meetings between him and senior Baath party cadres. The meetings, it seems, were intended to lead up to and underscore Saddam's speech and his leadership role, along with that of the Baath party. Most likely, Saddam intends some very serious payback for all that the US, and others, have done to Iraq.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 27 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 23 July 1999 -- U.S. EXTENDS NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH IRAQ / ARE IRAQ WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION "DORMANT?" / LITTLE NEW IN SADDAM'S NATIONAL DAY SPEECH / HOW CREDIBLE IS THE IRAQI OPPOSITION? / QUSAYY PROFILED / CORRECTION: IRAQ FOUNDATION NOT INVESTIGATING ANTI-ASSYRIAN ACTIONS
• ENDORSE the Staffer Delegation to IRAQ 23 Jul 1999 -- Despite conservative estimates that half a million people, mostly children under the age of five, have died as a result of the most comprehensive sanctions ever imposed on a nation, Congressman McDermott is the only member of Congress to travel to Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War.
• Text: President Continues Iraq National Emergency 21 July 1999 -- President Clinton notified Congress July 20 of his decision to continue the national emergency with respect to Iraq beyond August 2, 1999.
• MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AMONG IRAQI CHILDREN FROM 1990 THROUGH 1998: Assessing the Impact of the Gulf War and Economic Sanctions Dr Richard Garfield (School of Public Health, Columbia University) The paper finds that the rise in the child mortality rate in Iraq accounted for between a minimum of 100,000 and a more likely estimate of 227,000 excess deaths among young children from August 1991 [a year after sanctions were imposed] through March 1998.
• OPCW EXPERTS MISSION TO IRAQ: AN UPDATE Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 20 July 1999 -- The mission of the experts is to assist the United Nations in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory in the Baghdad Monitoring and Verification Centre (BMVC), including, inter alia, through the destruction of some chemical agent reference standards and mustard agent samples in the laboratory.
• US Department of State Daily Press Briefing 19 July 1999 -- On July 18, 1999 Operation Southern Watch aircraft were fired upon by Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery. Responding in self-defense, coalition aircraft used precision-guided munitions to strike an Iraqi surface-to-air missile site approximately 200 miles south of Baghdad near Abu Sukhayr and an Iraqi communications site approximately 150 miles southeast of Baghdad near Al Khidr.
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (18 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16CJ Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on command and control sites south of Mosul.
• COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND July 18, 1999 - U.S. Air Force F-16 "Fighting Falcons" and, U.S. Navy F/A-18 "Hornet" and F-14 "Tomcat" aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly Zone used precision guided munitions to strike an Iraqi Surface-to-Air Missile site approximately 200 miles south of Baghdad near Abu Sukhayr, and an Iraqi military communications site approximately 150 miles southeast of Baghdad in the vicinity of Al Khidr.
• SADDAM'S NAT'L DAY SPEECH Iraq News 18 July 1999 -- The Wash Post, Jul 15, reported, "An administration official who closely monitors intelligence on Iraq, [said], 'We have seen no evidence of reconstruction of weapons of mass destruction.'" That assessment, of course, is at odds with that of high-ranking Israeli defense officials.
  Yesterday was Iraq's Nat'l day, the 31st anniversary of the coup that brought Saddam and the Baath to power. Saddam gave his annual speech. Most notably, he called for Israel's destruction. He also described the Baathist experience in Iraq in a religious, prophetic context, revealing the megalomania that makes him so dangerous. Saddam also attacked other Arab rulers and the US. But he spoke most vehemently against Israel.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 26 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 16 July 1999 -- ILISU DAM IGNITES INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSY / WHO BURIED THE LOCUST EGGS? / IRAQ FOUNDATION TO INVESTIGATE ANTI-ASSYRIAN ACTIONS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN / TALABANI ATTACKS U.S. IRAQ POLICY / RICCIARDONE ON WASHINGTON POLICY TOWARD IRAQ / KDP ACCUSES PUK OF PKK SUPPORT / IRAQI KURDISTAN NEW PKK TARGET
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (16 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on a communications facility southeast of Mosul.
• US Department of State Daily Press Briefing 15 July 1999 -- Best way to monitor Iraqi programs is with inspectors on the ground. US does not believe Iraq has made significant efforts to reconstitute weapons of mass destruction.
• ISRAEL VERY CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQ Iraq News 14 July 1999 -- Israel, Channel 2, television, reported Jul 13, "High-ranking defense establishment officials are highly concerned about the developments in Iraq, following the termination of the UN inspection. Since the beginning of the year, Saddam Hussein has been conducting a process of accelerated procurement . . . Western intelligence elements estimate that Iraq has been making a concentrated effort in recent months to manufacture biological and chemical warfare materials."
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire(14 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on command and control sites west of Mosul.
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire (13 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on an intelligence and operations center southeast of Mosul.
• FIRST NATIONAL ORGANIZING CONFERENCE ON IRAQ! Nine years of devastating sanctions. Iraq's worst drought in 50 years. A failed Oil-for Food program. And meanwhile, the Clinton Administration remains entrenched in maintaining a war of siege against the cradle of civilization and 22 million innocent civilians.
• SPECIAL ACTION ALERT ON SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ July 12, 1999 -- by Corinne Whitlatch, Director of Churches for Middle East Peace, and edited by Catherine Sunshine for publication by the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- August 6 marks the 9th anniversary of the comprehensive U.N. sanctions against Iraq. The people of Iraq continue to suffer in the grip of a humanitarian crisis caused in large part by the sanctions. But there is growing support within the U.N. Security Council for a change in the sanctions regime.
• Interview with Scott Ritter Nicholas Arons, FOR -- "When you ask the question, "Does Iraq possess militarily viable biological or chemical weapons?" the answer is "NO!" It is a resounding "NO". Can Iraq produce today chemical weapons on a meaningful scale? No! Can Iraq produce biological weapons on a meaningful scale? No! Ballistic missiles? No! It is "no" across the board. So from a qualitative standpoint, Iraq has been disarmed. Iraq today possesses no meaningful weapons of mass destruction capability." -- Scott Ritter
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 25 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 9 July 1999 -- THE SAUDI ARABIA-IRAN-IRAQ TRIANGLE / RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH TARIQ 'AZIZ / TWO NEW OPPOSITION GROUPS APPEAR / IRAQI TURKMEN SUGGEST 'MOSUL FEDERATION' FOR NORTH IRAQ / KDP ASKS KURDS IN EXILE TO RETURN TO KURDISTAN / DUHOK GOVERNATE ISSUES STATEMENT ON SAWA MURDER / KDP PURSUES PKK GUERRILLAS INTO TURKEY /
• Iraq News 09 July 1999 -- Sometimes, Iraq does strange things, which are difficult to understand. The possibility always exists that there is something more than meets the eye, and which will become evident later. Iraq radio broadcast another Saddam meeting with a group of Baathists. The Iraqis have started numbering these events and this was identified as Saddam' 22nd meeting with senior party cadres.
• IRAQ ACTION DIGEST Nicholas Arons, FOR -- July 8, 1999 -- According to the Congressional Resource Service, since the end of the Gulf War the United States has flown over 100,000 missions, and spent over $7 Billion, in efforts to contain Iraq.
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi ground fire (8 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on an intelligence and operations center southeast of Mosul.
• U-N / IRAQ / WEAPONS Voice of America 07 July 1999 -- THE UNITED NATIONS HAS REACHED AGREEMENT WITH IRAQ TO SEND A SPECIAL TEAM OF WEAPONS EXPERTS TO CLOSE THE LABORATORIES OF UNSCOM.
• "It really is a New World Order imposed by Britain and the US" Eye witness account of the impact of war and sanctions on Iraq / A two-part interview with journalist Felicity Arbuthnot by Barbara Slaughter World Socialist Web / International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) 5 July 1999 -- Felicity Arbuthnot is a freelance journalist, who has visited Iraq on many occasions since the end of the Gulf War. She has just returned to Britain from her eighteenth visit. "Like many others I had opposed the Gulf War. I knew that, like the war in Yugoslavia, it was about the strategic interests of the western powers and not about either Saddam Hussein or "little Kuwait".
• Coalition aircraft respond to Iraqi radar, AAA fire (2 July 1999) -- Operation Northern Watch (ONW) F-16C Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped GBU-10 and GBU-12 precision guided munitions on a communication site southeast of Mosul.
• Iraq News 02 July 1999 -- Baghdad remains quiet, or relatively so, as Iraq's Nat'l day--Jul 17--is approaching. From Jun 12 to Jun 28, Saddam held a series of meetings--at least 13--with groups of people, mostly Bath party officials Such a flurry of Saddam-chaired meetings, reported publicly, is without precedent since the Gulf war. It is hard to understand why they were held and one person's speculation is as good as the next. Notably, save for the Jun 12 meeting, Saddam said nothing of particular note.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 2, Number 24 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2 July 1999 -- AZIZ ON THE OPPOSITION, U.S. POLICY / REPARATIONS TO BE PAID TO COMPANIES WITH PROVEN LOSSES CAUSED BY IRAQ / IRAQ STOCKPILING SMALLPOX VIRUS / BAGHDAD SETS UP PKK CAMP NEAR MOSUL / KDP, PUK STATEMENTS ON WASHINGTON TALKS / UNIFIED IRAQI GROUPING EXPRESSES "RESERVATIONS" ABOUT U.S. POLICY / ASSYRIAN COMMUNITIES ENRAGED ABOUT SAWA MURDER / ASSYRIAN PATRIOTIC PARTY MEETS WITH IRAQI NATIONAL ACCORD LEADERSHIP
• U-N / U-S / IRAQ Voice of America 01 July 1999 -- THE CHIEF U-S DELEGATE TO THE UNITED NATIONS IS OPTIMISTIC AN AGREEMENT WILL BE REACHED IN COMING MONTHS FOR THE RESUMPTION OF WEAPONS INSPECTIONS IN IRAQ.