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August 2000

• Inspection commission could begin work in Iraq: Hans Blix, UN News, 31 August 2000 --
• CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS FROM ISRAEL, UNITED STATES, ROMANIA, IRAQ AND MYANMAR, UN Press Release, 31 August 2000 -- Statement of the Iraqi representative.
• Iraq earns another $479 million under UN's "oil-for-food" programme, UN News, 29 August 2000
• IRAQ, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 28 August 2000 -- No-Fly Zones were created by UN Security Council resolution to protect Iraqi people from their government. Coalition aircraft strikes only occur in response to Iraqi threats. Every effort is made to avoid civilian casualties.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 29 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 25 August 2000 -- SADDAM REASSUMES DIRECT CONTROL OF CHEMICAL, BACTERIOLOGICAL WEAPONS / BAGHDAD PLAYS UP RITTER PRESS CONFERENCE / RUSSIA, IRAQ DISCUSS EXPANDING COOPERATION / RUSSIAN PLANE VISITS SADDAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT / PAKISTANI BUSINESS SEEKS IRAQI TRADE VIA IRAN / CAIRO DAILY SEES MOUNTING OPPOSITION TO SANCTIONS / RAMADAN CRITICIZES SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT / IRAQ CONDEMNS TURKISH AIR RAID ON NORTHERN IRAQ / RAMADAN RECEIVES AUSTRIAN DELEGATION / SLAVNEFT HEAD IN IRAQ / INDONESIAN PRESIDENT ADVISED NOT TO GO TO IRAQ / U.S., U.K. PLANES INCREASINGLY UNDER FIRE / RAMADAN ADDRESSES KURDISTAN REVOLUTIONARY PARTY / TURKMEN FRONT SEEKS BETTER RELATIONS WITH THE KDP / BARZANI ON RIGHTS OF ASSYRIANS, TURKMEN
• IRAQ / U-N, Voice of America, 23 August 2000 -- Iraq has rejected a new United Nations team created to monitor Iraqi weapons programs and says it will not be allowed to enter the country, even if it means continued international sanctions.
• Iraqi lack of cooperation with Security Council resolution 1284, UN Press Briefing, 23 August 2000 -- Comments of Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Iraqi refusal.
• Commissioners on Iraq meet to discuss report to Security Council, UN News, 23 August 2000 -- A United Nations spokesman said today that the Organization will continue to prepare for a new round of inspections in Iraq, as the group of experts providing guidance on the implementation of Security Council resolutions on that country opened a two-day meeting in New York.
• ALBRIGHT/IRAQ/WEAPONS, Voice of America, 22 August 2000 -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has met with the leader of a new United Nations team of weapons inspectors being assembled to return to Iraq.
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 22 August 2000 -- There are all sorts of rumblings that Iraq is going to hit back at Turkey for doing its usual raids against terrorists, terrorist groups?
• Iraq earns another $452 million in UN's oil-for-food programme, UN News, 21 August 2000
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 28 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 18 August 2000 -- IRAQ TO MAKE MISSILE COMPONENTS / IS ABU-NIDAL BACK IN BAGHDAD? / KUWAIT, ARAB STATES REACT TO SADDAM'S THREATS / BAGHDAD DENOUNCES 'SAUDI-KUWAITI AGGRESSION.' / VENEZUELA'S CHAVEZ MEETS SADDAM HUSSEYN / INDONESIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT IRAQ / OIL-FOR-FOOD DIRECTOR CRITICIZES U.S., BRITAIN / BAGHDAD AIRPORT TO REOPEN / TURKISH-IRAQI RAIL ROUTES TO BE ACTIVATED / IRAQ SEEKING MORE TRADE TIES / IRAQI OIL EXPORTS DECLINE / RUSSIA, IRAQ CRITICIZE LATEST BOMBING RAIDS / KURDISH NATIONAL CONGRESS CONVENES IN SAN DIEGO
• IS IRAQ STILL DANGEROUS?, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- Although Saddam Hussein is weaker in conventional military capabilities, he remains a threat because of his weapons of mass destruction.
• IRAQ AIRPORT OPENS, Voice of America, 18 August 2000 -- The government of Iraq has reopened its international airport outside Baghdad, saying it expects to receive international flights soon.
• Iraqi missiles and AAA fired at ONW aircraft, UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND, 17 August 2000
• Iraq earns another $348 million in UN's oil-for-food programme, UN News, 15 August 2000
• In Baghdad, UN official calls for improved efficiency of oil-for-food scheme, UN News, 15 August 2000
• Iraqi AAA fired at ONW aircraft, UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND, 15 August 2000
• STATEMENT BY THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 15.08.2000 - In the past few days aircraft of the U.S. and British air forces have delivered airstrikes at the city of Samawa in the south of Iraq. As a result, there have been casualties among peaceful civilians.
• IRAQ PROTEST, SCOTT BOBB, Voice of America, 8/14/2000 -- In Iraq, several hundred protesters have demonstrated outside offices of the United Nations in Baghdad, denouncing Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for supporting recent U-S and British air strikes against Iraq.
• PRESS RELEASE 14.08.2000 -- Moscow has taken note of a news item published by The Times of Great Britain on August 14, 2000, which, citing Western intelligence sources, claims that Russian companies are allegedly conducting secret negotiations with the Iraqi side on building in Iraq a plant to manufacture gyroscopes for long-range missiles.
• IRAQ/RAID, Voice of America, 13 August 2000 -- The Iraqi News Agency says the second night of attacks hit a train station, wounding an unspecified number of civilians.
• IRAQ / RAID, Voice of America, 12 August 2000 -- The government of Iraq says U-S and British warplanes have attacked a town in southern Iraq, and reports from the region say one person was killed and 20 wounded.
• COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE August 12, 2000 - Coalition aircraft operating from the Arabian Peninsula used precision guided munitions to strike two anti-aircraft artillery sites today in response to multiple Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery attacks today against coalition forces enforcing the no-fly-zone in southern Iraq.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 27 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 11 August 2000 -- SADDAM AGAIN THREATENS IN 'VICTORY DAY' SPEECH / VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT BREAKS DEMOCRATIC RANKS TO VISIT IRAQ / RALLIES AGAINST SANCTIONS ON ANNIVERSARY OF KUWAIT INVASION / IRAQ COMMUNIST PARTY REPORTS EXECUTIONS OF COMPUTER EXPERTS / PARIS-BAGHDAD FLIGHT AUTHORIZED / IRAQ SATISFIED WITH SYRIAN TRANSPORT FACILITIES / RUSSIAN ARABISTS SPLIT ON SANCTIONS / QATARI FOREIGN MINISTER SEEKS END TO IRAQI SUFFERING / BAGHDAD NEGOTIATING TO BUY PASSENGER AIRCRAFT / NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER COMPLAINS TO U.S CONGRESS / SPECIAL SECURITY, ARMY OFFICERS EXECUTED / KURDISH PEACE CONGRESS IN IRAQ? / TALABANI SAYS NORTHERN IRAQ 'DE FACTO' INDEPENDENT... / ...DENIES PLANS TO ATTACK PKK / U.S. CENSUS DECISION ON ASSYRIAN NATIONALITY SPARKS PROTEST
• COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE August 11, 2000 - Four U.S. Navy F-14 "Tomcats" and three F/A-18 "Hornets," four U.S. Air Force F-16 "Fighting Falcons" and three British Royal Air Force Tornado GR-1s attacked a SAM site near Tallil, and command posts located near As Samawah and Tallil
• U-S-VENEZUELA-IRAQ, Voice of America, 09 August 2000 -- The United States has sharply criticized plans by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to visit Iraq.
• Iraq 10 Years After: Sanctions And Bombs Missing Their Target, Foreign Media Reaction Report, 08 August 2000 -- Foreign media commentary on sanctions against Iraq.
• Iraq earns another $353 million for UN "oil-for-food" programme, UN News, 07 August 2000 -- With the price of oil well above average, Iraq earned $353 million dollars last week, according to the latest figures released by the United Nations Office of the Iraq Programme, which administers the UN humanitarian "oil-for-food" programme.
• Expeditionary Aerospace Force concepts seen showing dividends, Stars and Stripes, 05 August 2000 -- "EAF has been a major adjustment for us in Southwest Asia, but I think it's all been a change for the positive," said Maj. Gen. Gene Renuart Jr., commander of the Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "The concept was implemented to put predictability into the high-ops tempo ... and we're seeing it."
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 26 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 4 August 2000 -- CONSEQUENCES OF IRAQ'S INVASION OF KUWAIT MARKED / GULF WAR'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY MARKED / SADDAM, MILOSEVIC SEEK 'STRATEGIC COOPERATION.' / OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM GENERATES $29 BILLION SINCE 1996 / SYRIA-IRAQ RAIL LINK TO REOPEN / POLISH-IRAQI ECONOMIC COOPERATION COMMITTEE TO RESUME MEETINGS / JORDAN-IRAQ PIPELINE TO BE REVIVED / ARMENIAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO AL-SAHHAF / TURKEY TO UPGRADE TO AMBASSADORIAL LEVEL IN IRAQ / IRAQ REQUESTS SECOND BORDER GATE WITH TURKEY / IRAQI TURKMEN A TURKISH PRIORITY / INTERNET CAFE OPENS IN BAGHDAD
• IRAQ-TURKEY, Voice of America, 03 August 2000 -- Ten years after Iraq invaded Kuwait and triggered the Gulf war, United Nations economic sanctions against Baghdad are still in effect, and they have indirect consequences throughout the region, notably in neighboring Turkey.
• IRAQ / ALBRIGHT, Voice of America, 02 August 2000 -- Secretary of State Madeline Albright has marked the tenth anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait by saying Saddam Hussein is to blame for his country's misery.
• US-GULF ANNIVERSARY, Voice of America, 02 August 2000 -- The United States marked the 10th anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait by beginning the release of documents on Iraqi human rights abuses during the Gulf War period.
• JTF/SWA commander discusses EAF, Iraq, ACCNS, 02 August 2000 -- While the Expeditionary Aerospace Force construct has changed the way units are deployed into the region, the mission is still very much the same.
• Briefing on the Tenth Anniversary of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait by C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs and David Scheffer, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 02 August 2000 -- A decade has now lapsed with Saddam unable to invade a neighbor. That fact alone marks an important success for the international community. Through the measures it has taken to constrain the aggressive intentions of the Baghdad regime, the United Nations Security Council has effectively fulfilled the obligation to uphold international peace and security.
• DoD News Briefing - Gulf War Anniversary, U.S. Department of Defense, 01 August 2000 -- Q: Ken, it's been about 10 years since the end of the Gulf War. I wonder if you have any interesting statistical analysis of how successful you have been in the intervening years; how many thousands of missions you have flown since the end of that war and sort of what you've accomplished?