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Hot Documents

• DoD Understates Heat Danger in NBC Defensive Gear By Bernard J. Fine, March 2003 -- On March 3, 2003, the Department of Defense conducted a news briefing on the U.S. military's chemical and biological defense readiness. The presentation was not at all helpful in terms of informing us of the actual dangers from heat injuries that our troops in the Persian Gulf can be expected to face when wearing chemical-biological protective clothing. (...) When taken in the context of the known environment of Iraq, these statements appear to be at variance with both the scientific information available and Army policy pertaining to operations in the heat. [MS Word 71.5Kb]
• Iraq's Vision of the Nuclear battlefield By Norman Cigar, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University Foundation: Contributions to War Studies #3 Mar 2003 -- Iraq has long sought to acquire nuclear weapons and the Iraqi leadership has vieewed nuclear weapons as a practical warfighting tool rather than only as a doomsday deterrent with a largely political significance. (...) The conclusions in this study are based on a recently-discovered Iraqi doctrinal manual devoted to teh role of nuclear weapons at teh tactical level (...) which was captured by U.S. forces during the Gulf War and has since been declassified. [PDF 2.76 Mb]
• Iraq and GPS: Some Frequently Asked Questions By Richard B. Langley, Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 13 March 2003 -- This documents provides answers to the following questions: 1. If a war starts with Iraq, will GPS be turned off or will there be a global reduction in available accuracy? 2. Will the U.S. jam GPS in Iraq? 3. Will the Iraqi military jam GPS? 4. Where can I learn more about GPS and its military uses and jamming and anti-jamming technologies? [PDF 17.6 Kb]

  Current Operations

• COALITION DROPS NEARLY A MILLION LEAFLETS 15 Mar 2003 -- Coalition aircraft dropped nearly a million informational leaflets in southern Iraq today. The drops were part of an ongoing effort to protect Iraqi lives and deter Iraqi aggression by providing factual information to Iraqi civilians and military troops.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush Notes 15th Anniversary of Chemical Attack on Iraqi Kurds Washington File 15 Mar 2003 -- President Bush spoke to the nation via radio March 15, noting the 15th anniversary of the Iraqi regime's chemical weapons attack on the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja. He said the world's free nations need to show "whether their stated commitments to liberty and security are words alone -- or convictions they're prepared to act upon."
• BUSH/IRAQ VOA 15 Mar 2003 -- President Bush leaves for the Azores Sunday for a meeting with the leaders of Britain and Spain to discuss their U-N resolution against Iraq. With that measure facing a French and Russian veto, President Bush says he is ready to attack Iraq, regardless of what the United Nations decides.
• Bush Says Massacre at Halabja Shows Evil of Hussein's Rule AFPS 15 Mar 2003 -- President Bush today held up the March 16, 1988, chemical attack on the civilians of Halabja, Iraq, as a prime example of the evil Saddam Hussein perpetrates.
• Halabja: Symbol of Hussein's Inhumanity AFPS 15 Mar 2003 -- "Bloody Friday." That's what Iraqi Kurds call the attack on Halabja, Iraq, on March 16, 1988.
• BUSH/IRAQ VOA 15 Mar 2003 -- President Bush leaves for the Azores Saturday for a meeting with the leaders of Britain and Spain to discuss their U-N resolution against Iraq. With that measure facing a French and Russian veto, President Bush says he is ready to attack Iraq, regardless of what the United Nations decides.

United Nations

• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 15 Mar 2003
• Tracking Inspections in Iraq RFE/L 15 Mar 2003
• In Iraq, UN continues supervising destruction of missiles UN News Centre 15 Mar 2003 -- Three additional Al Samoud 2 missiles were destroyed in Iraq today under the supervision of United Nations inspectors conducting the international disarmament probe there.
• UNHCR/ASYLUM VOA 15 Mar 2003 -- new study by the United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, shows that Iraqis comprised the largest group of asylum seekers in industrialized countries last year, replacing Afghans who now have fallen to fifth place.
• IRAQ/INSPECTORS VOA 15 Mar 2003 -- Iraq has submitted a report to the United Nations on V-X nerve agent, which it says it has destroyed.

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq: Hussein Divides Country Into Military Districts RFE/L 12 Mar 2003 -- Iraq has put itself on a war footing as U.S. President George W. Bush tells the American people the country's military is ready to disarm Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if need be.
• ANTI-WAR PROTESTS VOA 15 Mar 2003 -- Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in cities around the world took to the streets Saturday to protest the possibility of a U-S-led war against Iraq.

News Reports

• IRAQ WRAP VOA 15 Mar 2003 -- President Bush says the United States is ready to lead a military coalition to force Iraq to disarm, despite significant opposition to such action within the U-N Security Council. Mr. Bush made his remarks as he prepares to meet with the leaders of Britain and Spain to determine if there is a last-minute way to unite the United Nations on an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein.