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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


04 December Iraq Special Weapons News

  • Tracking the Inspections 04 December 2002 RFE/L 04 Dec 2002 -- A reported 24 inspectors visited two sites on 4 December.
  • Backgrounder On Exercise Internal Look 04 Dec 2002 -- "Exercise Internal Look is designed to exercise the command, control and communications ability of Central Command Headquarters and all of our different component commands who are spread throughout our AOR (area of responsibility) in other parts of the world. What this exercise is going to do is test and exercise our ability to communicate on the modern battlefield. This exercise is going to be a very complex computer-based and assisted exercise that will not involve combat forces"
  • U.S. Military Will Conduct War Games in Qatar Washington File 05 Dec 2002 -- The U.S. Central Command will conduct a seven-day, computer-based war game at a new command-and-control operations center recently established in Qatar, a senior Central Command official says
  • Wolfowitz Says Turkey Has Role to Play in Dealing with Iraq Washington File 04 Dec 2002 -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz met with Turkish officials in Ankara December 3 and afterwards told reporters that Turkey has a role to play in dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
  • Bush Wants Full Accounting of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Washington File 04 Dec 2002 -- The world will learn soon whether or not Iraq's Saddam Hussein is going to comply with United Nations demands that he rid his nation of weapons of mass destruction, President Bush said December 4
  • Transcript: Wolfowitz Discusses Turkish Participation in Coalition to Disarm Iraq Washington File 04 Dec 2002 -- Any military crisis with Iraq could result in economic consequences for Turkey, and managing such consequences is one of the big issues that U.S. and Turkish officials need to discuss further and to clarify, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told Turkish reporters in Ankara December 4
  • Transcript: Turkey Gives Strong Affirmations of Support on Iraq, Wolfowitz Says Washington File 04 Dec 2002 -- The newly elected government of Turkey has given the United States "very strong affirmations" of support for dealing with the crisis with Iraq, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told journalists accompanying him to Ankara after his meetings with Prime Minister Abdullah Gul and with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, head of the ruling Justice and Development Party
  • IRAQ WRAP VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- As weapons inspections in Iraq enter their second week, there are signs of increasing tensions between Baghdad and the United Nations. The Bush administration is calling on weapons inspectors to accelerate their work by carrying out multiple, simultaneous searches of suspected Iraqi weapons sites
  • IRAQ / OPINION VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- A new report by an international monitoring group says many Iraqis would support the forced ouster of Saddam Hussein but that they have given little thought as to what might happen after the Iraqi leader is toppled
  • IRAQ/KURDS VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- Kurdish military officials say Islamic militants, including some believed to be linked to Osama bin Laden's terror group al-Qaida, killed as many as 20 fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK, during a battle Wednesday in northeastern Iraq
  • PENTAGON / QATAR VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- top U-S military commander and his battle staff will launch a major command, control and communications exercise next week from a newly-deployed portable headquarters in the Gulf nation of Qatar
  • WOLFOWITZ / IRAQ VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- Deputy U-S Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says that, if it becomes necessary for the United States to use force against Iraq to get rid of that country's alleged weapons of mass destruction, the world will support it. But Mr. Wolfowitz says the declaration Iraq is expected to give the United Nations on its weapons program by Sunday will not, in itself, trigger a decision by Washington to take military action
  • EDITORIAL: BUSH ON IRAQ VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein has a history of aggression. In the 1980s Iraq engaged in a war against Iran. In 1990, the Saddam Hussein regime attacked and occupied Kuwait. A U.S.-led coalition drove the Iraqis out
  • IRAQ / INSPECTIONS VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- U-N weapons inspectors have investigated a former chemical weapons factory and an Iraqi nuclear facility, as Iraq prepares to hand over a detailed list of its weapons systems. While the inspectors are reporting good cooperation, the Iraqi foreign ministry is questioning the motive of the inspectors
  • BUSH / IRAQ VOA 04 Dec 2002 -- President Bush says it is too early to tell if weapons inspections in Iraq will fail or succeed, but he says Saddam Hussein must disarm. Mr. Bush says the world must not be fooled again by the Iraqi leader
  • Iraq attacks ONW aircraft monitoring No-Fly zone 04 Dec 2002-- Coalition aircraft responded in self-defense to the Iraqi attacks by dropping precision guided munitions on elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system.
  • Summary of the UNMOVIC/IAEA Press Briefing on Weapons Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 04 December 2002




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