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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


Iraq Special Weapons News - June 2002

  • COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR-DEFENSE FACILITIES June 28, 2002 -- In response to Iraqi attacks on Coalition aircraft monitoring the Southern No-Fly Zone today, aircraft from Operation SOUTHERN WATCH used precision-guided weapons today to strike facilities of a military offensive command and control center at approximately 3:50 a.m. EDT
  • IRAQ/UN TALKS VOA 27 Jun 2002-- A delegation of four senior U-N officials will accompany Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Vienna next week for another round of talks with Iraq, amid signs that Baghdad is ready to meet some Security Council demands for the lifting of sanctions. Punitive measures were imposed on Iraq shortly after it invaded neighboring Kuwait in 1990
  • Iraqi Air Defenses Fire on No-Fly Patrols; Maritime Interdictions Up AFPS 26 Jun 2002-- Iraqi air defense weapons fired 10 times on coalition planes enforcing the northern no-fly zone over the past couple of days. The coalition responded this morning by dropping precision-guided munitions on elements of an Iraqi integrated air defense system, the U.S. military's senior officer said in the Pentagon today.
  • G-8 / Iraq VOA 25 Jun 2002-- President Bush is in Kananaskis, Alberta where he and leaders of seven other nations participate in this year's Group of Eight economic summit that begins Wednesday
  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 5, Number 18 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 24 June 2002 -- BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICY ON IRAQ / IRAQ TO DEMAND ANSWERS FROM KOFI ANNAN / SADDAM WARNS MINISTERS ABOUT CORRUPTION / U.S. EXPELS DIPLOMAT FROM IRAQI UN MISSION / OIL EXPORTS HIT BY CHANGE IN PRICING POLICY / COMPANIES GIVE UP REPARATION CLAIMS UNDER IRAQI PRESSURE / MILITARY EQUIPMENT IS 'BEING SMUGGLED VIA SYRIAN RAILWAY.' / IRAQ URGES KUWAIT TO MOVE TOWARDS BETTER TIES / DEBATE CONTINUES ON WHETHER ATTA MET IRAQI AGENT IN PRAGUE / IRAQI-AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON A FUTURE DEMOCRATIC IRAQ / TURKOMAN REPRESENTATIVES SPEAK OUT /
  • COALITION STRIKES IRAQI OFFENSIVE MILITARY AIR DEFENSE SITE June 20 2002 -- In response to Iraqi attacks on Coalition aircraft monitoring the Southern No-Fly Zone today, aircraft from Operation SOUTHERN WATCH used precision-guided weapons today to strike facilities of a military command and control center at approximately 5:30 a.m. EDT.
  • Iraq fires AAA at ONW aircraft, Coalition responds June 19, 2002 -- Iraqi forces attacked Operation Northern Watch (ONW) coalition aircraft today. Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from sites in the vicinity of Saddam Dam while ONW aircraft conducted routine enforcement of the Northern No-Fly Zone.
  • U.S. Policy on Iraq Remains Unchanged Washington File 18 Jun 2002-- Responding to reports of new military plans targeting Iraq, State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters at the June 17 regular press briefing that U.S. policy towards that country had not changed.
  • BUSH / IRAQ VOA 16 Jun 2002-- The Washington Post says (Sunday) President Bush has directed the C-I-A to step-up covert efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
  • COALITION STRIKES IRAQI OFFENSIVE AIR SITE June 14, 2002 -- In response to Iraqi attacks on Coalition aircraft monitoring the Southern No-Fly Zone yesterday, aircraft from Operation SOUTHERN WATCH used precision-guided weapons today to strike facilities of an offensive command and control system at approximately 5:20 a.m. EDT.
  • Letter dated 12 June 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Iraqi Government 12 June 2002-- On instructions from my Government, I should like to transmit to you herewith a letter dated 11 June 2002 from Mr. Naji Sabri, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, concerning violations of the demilitarized zone monitored by the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) which have been committed by United States and British warplanes flying from bases in Kuwait, together with a table showing those violations for the period from 4 to 31 May 2002.
  • Letter dated 11 June 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Iraqi Government 11 June 2002-- I should like to inform you that the United States of America and the United Kingdom have added a new act of aggression to the list of continual criminal attacks they have carried out against the Republic of Iraq since 1991, targeting civilians and their dwellings, crops and property.
  • Letter dated 11 June 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Iraqi Government 11 June 2002-- On 10 March 2002 United States newspapers leaked information on a confidential report by the United States Department of Defense (the Pentagon) entitled "Re-evaluation of the nuclear situation", in which it is stated that the Administration of President George W. Bush had ordered the Department of Defense to prepare contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons against China, Iraq, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Russian Federation and the Syrian Arab Republic, and that the Department of Defense had submitted the report to the Senate on 8 January 2002. Later, senior United States Administration officials confirmed the information in the report.
  • Letter dated 11 June 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Iraqi Government 11 June 2002-- I should like to draw your attention to a serious phenomenon concerning the practices of the United States and United Kingdom representatives on the Security Council Committee established by resolution 661 (1990) in seeking to change the approval procedures for the pricing of Iraqi oil exported under the memorandum of understanding and the oil-for-food programme.
  • Iraqi Regime Is "Destabilizing Factor" of Region Washington File 11 Jun 2002-- The topic of Iraq dominated Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's June 10 discussion with reporters in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Touching on a number of security issues pertinent to the Gulf region, Rumsfeld said the United States viewed Saddam Hussein's regime as "the destabilizing factor of the region."
  • U-S-IRAQ OPPOSITION VOA 10 Jun 2002-- The Bush administration says it has begun a series of meetings with Iraqi opposition groups on how Iraq would be governed after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The U-S dialogue includes the umbrella group, the Iraqi National Congress, or I-N-C, along with a variety of other opposition factions including Kurdish and Islamic-based groups
  • RUMSFELD/BAHRAIN VOA 10 Jun 2002-- Declaring Iraq is "lying" about not having weapons of mass destruction, U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he hopes to see Iraqi President Saddam Hussein out of power by the time his tenure at the Pentagon ends
  • Rumsfeld: Iraq Lying About Not Having WMD AFPS 10 Jun 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld summarily dismissed Iraq's June 9 statement that it doesn't have weapons of mass destruction and isn't developing them.
  • Letter dated 6 June 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Iraqi Government 09 June 2002-- It is now the twenty-first anniversary of the armed Zionist military aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations dedicated to peaceful purposes, Israeli warplanes having carried out an air attack on the city of Baghdad and targeted the Iraqi nuclear installations at 1837 hours on 7 June 1981. This Zionist aggression created a dangerous precedent in international relations, inasmuch as it targeted nuclear installations that were dedicated to peaceful purposes and subject to the full-scale safeguards regime of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and is an example of the use of force against an independent State in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international law.
  • RUMSFFELD/PERSIAN GULF VOA 09 Jun 2002-- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived in the Persian Gulf for several days of talks with U-S allies that are expected to include a discussion of Iraq, which, the White House has made it clear could become the next target in the war on terrorism
  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 5, Number 17 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 7 June 2002 -- HIJACKER MET WITH IRAQI AGENT, CZECH OFFICIAL SAYS / SADDAM BOLSTERS MILITARY, SMUGGLING INCOME / EGYPT BOOSTING LUCRATIVE IRAQ TIES / IRAQ'S RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ARAB WORLD CONTINUES... / ...THOUGH KUWAITI RELATIONS WITH IRAQ REMAIN STRAINED / NEW UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR IRAQ APPOINTED / RIVAL SPANISH DELEGATIONS VISIT IRAQ / BRAZIL DENIES ARMS-SALE ACCUSATIONS / KURDISH LEADERS REPORTEDLY HELD SECRET TALKS IN U.S. / EVIDENCE OF POTENT OPPOSITION INSIDE IRAQ / FURTHER RECONSTRUCTION IN IRAQI KURDISTAN... / ...WHILE ETHNIC CLEANSING CONTINUES IN KIRKUK / IRANIAN CARROTS AND STICKS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN?
  • Cheney Says Iraq's Pursuit of WMD Threatens U.S., Allies Washington File 07 Jun 2002-- Vice President Richard Cheney says Saddam Hussein's clear pursuit of weapons of mass destruction "requires the most careful, deliberate, and decisive response" by the United States and its allies.
  • British MOD: Attacks on U.S., British Fliers in Iraq Increasing AFPS 5 Jun 2002-- Iraqi forces have resumed stepped-up attacks on U.S. and British fliers enforcing the northern and southern no-fly zones in that country, the British defense minister told American reporters today.
  • GEPHARDT-IRAQ VOA 04 Jun 2002-- A top congressional Democrat says he would support the use of military force to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, the leader of Democrats in the House of Representatives, made the comment in a speech in Washington Tuesday
  • IRAQ / AL-QAIDA VOA 04 Jun 2002-- Since the end of the Gulf War in 1991, U-S and British war planes from Incirlik (PRONO: in-jur lick) Air Base in Turkey have been patrolling the skies over northern Iraq protecting the country's Kurdish minority from Saddam Hussein
  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 5, Number 16 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 3 June 2002 -- BUSH ADMINISTRATION RESPONDS TO CAUTIOUS PENTAGON REPORTS / IRAQ'S ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION INVIGORATED / SECURITY FORCES ACCUSED OF KILLING KARBALA PILGRIMS / IRAQ CLAIMS TO HAVE FORCED DOWN AMERICAN DRONE / BRITISH NAVY INTERCEPTS SANCTIONS-BREAKING SHIP / IRAQ'S OIL PRODUCTION INCREASED IN MAY / KURDISH LEADERS REPORTED TO ACQUIESCE TO U.S. ACTION / AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CRITICIZES IRAQ / IRAQ DISTRIBUTING MILLIONS TO PALESTINIANS IN JENIN / UDAY'S RADIO STATION 'MAKES HIM POPULAR.'
  • IRAQ / OPERATION NORTHERN WATCH VOA 02 Jun 2002-- The U-S, British, and Turkish coalition enforcing the no-fly zone over northern Iraq says it has so far not been given any orders to prepare for a larger campaign against Saddam Hussein. For weeks, the international media has been speculating that the Bush Administration is planning some type of military action to remove the Iraqi leader from power




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