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    Best Overall Sites


  • 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.

    • News Media


    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 website.

  • 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


  • 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 homepage, with access to briefing transcripts, statements, news, photos, and a search engine.

  • Desert Fox Homepage - 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 Homepage - 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)

    • Foreign Government


    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 UN

    • United Nations and International Organizations


  • 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.

  • UN 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 Websites


  • Mario's Cyberspace Station: Iraq - Cacophonous, slightly weird shrine to Iraq information online, sometimes with some surprises.

  • NYA Cryptonome - A lovingly maintained clean website 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

    • Usenet Newsgroups


  • 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.

    • Background on Iraq


  • 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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