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Iraq Links & Resources
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Background on Iraq
WashingtonPost.com:
Fog of War – A retrospective of the 1991 air war over Baghdad, with
complete target map, database and photo gallery.
Federation
of American Scientists Military Analysis Network Iraq Crisis Site – Complete coverage, with news, background information, a full library of
government documents and a search
engine.
Snap!:News:
Iraq Turmoil – The upstart competitor to Yahoo!, with a sometimes broader
mix of stories. Worth a look.
Spotlight
on Military News – Nouvelles militaires – News links intelligently
compiled by the Canadian Forces College.
University
of Michigan Documents in the News: Iraq and Desert Fox
Yahoo!
Full Coverage – Iraq – U.S. Conflict – Up-to-the minute news stories,
links and photo search engines.
U.S. News Media Special Reports
ABC
News: Extended and Continuing Coverage of Iraq – Competitor with MSNBC
in terms of original reporting, graphics.
CBS
Now
CNN
– Standoff with Iraq – 1998
C-SPAN
International Programming Iraq Page
Lycos
Iraq Page – Includes the new fastv video search function.
MSNBC
Attack on Iraq Front Page – Original reporting, maps and applications
from the number one news Web site.
New
York Times Issue in Depth: Attack on Iraq – Surprisingly thin and
sluggishly
updated.
Online
NewsHour Continuing Standoff with Iraq Page
RealGuide:
Iraq – Live radio and TV links for those in the fast lane.
Washingtonpost.com:
Iraq Special Report
Foreign Media Special Reports
ArabicNews.com
Arabia.On.Line
BBC
Special Coverage Crisis in the Gulf
IraqNet
News Center – Extensive links to international news sites.
Jane's
Defence Weekly Gulf in Crisis Iraq Special Feature
Password
Iraq Page
UK Press Association
StoryFinder – Essential news indexer of U.K. print and television news
stories.
U.S. Military and Government
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White
House Briefing Room – Latest documents and statements on Iraq.
U.S.
Department of State – Crisis in Iraq – A fairly moribund site, with
links to Secretary
of State Albright's statements, press
briefings and statements
by U.S. officials.
USIA
Crisis with Iraq – Suprisingly good coverage of U.S. government
statements,
including the Washington
File.
Arms
Control, Defense and Security Issues (USIA Israel)
Pentagon
DefenseLink – Defense Department home page, with access to briefing transcripts,
statements,
news, photos and a search
engine.
Desert Fox
home page – They had to do it, but did they have to do it so poorly?
AirForceLINK
- News and background on weapons and units, with search
engines and links to the Response
to Iraq special site.
U.S.
Navy home page – Searchable
source of news, information on weapons and units, photos, as well as the
Navy:
In the Arabian Gulf page, with up to date information on deployed aircraft
carriers and ships.
Military Commands and Units in the Region
Operation
Northern Watch (Incirlik Airbase, Turkey)
U.S.
Army Kuwait
U.S.
Central Command (CENTCOM)
U.S.
Central Air Forces (CENTAF)
USS
Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
USS
Enterprise (CVN-65)
British Government
Britain, UNSCOM and Iraq Page – Government wide site with transcripts of Prime Minister, MOD and Foreign
and Commonwealth Office releases and statements.
Ministry of Defence
Royal Air Force – Latest information
on RAF deployments.
U.K.
Houses of Parliament "Hansard" Search Engine
Iraqi Government
Permanent
Mission of Iraq to the U.N.
United Nations and International Organizations
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United Nations home page – News, documents,
and organization. The United Nations International Organizations
Network Search UNIONS search
engine searches across UN agencies and international bodies.
U.N. Security Council – With access to full-text Security
Council documents such as resolutions, Presidential statements, etc.
UN Special Commission
(UNSCOM)
UN Office of the Iraq Programme ("oil
for food")
International Atomic Energy Agency
World Atom Main Page – Organization responsible for disarming Iraq
of its nuclear capability. Reports are retrievable through the IAEA
Architext Querying search engine.
Non Governmental Organizations and Private Web sites
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Mario's
Cyberspace Station: Iraq – Cacophonous, slightly weird shrine to Iraq
information online, sometimes with some surprises.
NYA
Cryptonome – A lovingly maintained clean Web site monitoring intelligence
documents and issues.
Think Tanks and Arms Control Groups
Arms
Control Association Iraq and UNSCOM Backgrounder
Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace UNSCOM-Iraq Page
Monterey Institute
of International Studies Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nuclear Control Institute: Saddam
and the Bomb
Washington Institute for
Near East Policy
Arab Solidarity and Opposition Groups
Iraq
Action Coalition – Activist site devoted to the lifting of sanctions,
up-to-date with news and links.
Iraqi
National Congress – The main site of the Iraqi opposition in London,
includes news, background on Iraqi government and military and a brief
on Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction facilities.
Iraq
Chat News – Serving the Iraqi expatriate community.
Iraq
Foundation: News
U.S.
Out of the Gulf! – Committee against U.S. intervention site, with news,
editorials, cartoons and links.
Voices in the Wilderness
Latest
newsgroup postings on Iraq from DejaNews via Lycos
alt.desert-storm – Veteran and enthusiast musings and grumblings.
soc.culture.iraq – Iraqi society and culture discussion list.
clari.world.mideast.iraq – News of Iraq – Up-to-date AFP, AP and UPI wire stories.
CIA
World Factbook on Iraq
Iraq
Country Study – Prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress.
U.S.
Energy Information Administration Iraq Page – Profiles of the oil,
natural gas and electrical power industries.
Contemporary
conflicts: Iraq (Iraq-United States) – From the Canadian Department
of National Defense.
Iraq
Research and Documentation Project – Harvard University's Center for
Middle Eastern Studies database about the government, politics and civil society of modern Iraq.
Iraq
Maps – From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection and the
University of Texas at Austin.
Desert Storm (1991 Gulf War)
Gulf
War Veteran Resource Pages
GulfLINK,
Gulf War Illnesses Home Page – The original Internet page devoted to
Iraq, still with one of the finest collections of declassified U.S. government
documents on Iraq.
Frontline:
The Gulf War
Gulf
War Veterans' Illnesses – From the Department of Veterans Affairs.
National
Gulf War Resource Center
Operation
Desert Storm Debriefing Book
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