Researching Perspective on Iraq

Current News

Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera offers coverage 24 hours a day and focuses on regions of conflict. It is based in Qatar and offers primarily news and analysis. This is the English version of the site and it is currently focused on the war in Iraq. Links to the site are occasionally unstable.
Alternative Resources on the U.S.-Iraq Conflict -Alternative news, analysis and commentary sources via the International Responsibilities Task Force/Social Responsibilities Roundtable, American Library Association.
Arabic Media Internet Network
Arab Net
Includes history, business, cultural, and government overview for each Arab country, as well as the latest news and Arab View , opinions written by leading journalists and editors in the Middle East.
BBC News In Depth-Conflict With Iraq
CNN.com-Special Report: War on Iraq
Documents in the News - Via the University of Michigan, links to current event documents. Select Iraqi War Debate . An excellent site.
Drudge Report - Links to many international and U.S. news sources.
International Relations and Security Network
Iraqi News Agency - Official Iraqi press releases and news reports.
MediaChannel.org
This is a nonprofit, public interest web site dedicated to global media issues. The Media News Tracker provides ongoing coverage of major stories and themes in global media news.
MSNBC-Target: Iraq
The Nation-No War in Iraq
Articles from this magazine plus links to alternative news sources.
NPR: War with Iraq
Newspapers by Geographical Location (University of Pennsylvania)
Roll Call and The Hill via Congressional Universe
Published twice a week, Roll Call covers House and Senate activities, people, and issues. The Hill reports and analyzes the actions of Congress. Choose Inside Washington from the main menu and then select either Roll Call or The Hill .
Speech & Transcript Center
This frequently updated compilation is currently focused on the Iraq situation and includes full-text transcripts of speeches, news conferences, etc., from government and other world leaders.
UN NewsCentre
Washington Post-War in Iraq

Maps of Iraq

National Geographic: Iraq Maps
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas): Iraq Maps
United Nations Cartographic Section

U.S. Government Information

President and Executive Branch Departments

The White House: Policies in Focus-Iraq
Blair & Bush: Messages to the Iraqi People
April 10, 2003
President Bush's Address to the Nation on Start of Military Action in Iraq President Bush's Address to the Nation on Iraq
March 17, 2003. Here is another copy of the speech.
Remarks by the President on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441
November 8, 2002
President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat-Address to the Nation
Speech delivered in Cincinnati, October 7, 2002 that reiterates the Administration's rationale for pursing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the war powers resolution.
National Security Strategy Document
Released by the administration on September 20, 2002.
President Bush's Speech before the United Nations
The President's speech before the UN on September 12, 2002, outlining the case against Iraq and asking for UN support.
Decade of Deception and Defiance
Report to the United Nations detailing the U.S. argument re: threat posed by Hussein and Iraq.
Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction-CIA
Recently declassified report released by the Central Intelligence Agency on October 4, 2002. It generally reflects a classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's programs to make WMD provided to Congress earlier in the week.

Department of State

Iraq Update-International Information Programs
Secretary Powell's Briefing on Situation with Iraq-March 17, 2003
Remarks of Secretary Powell to the UN Security Council- March 7, 2003
Iraq: Still Failing to Disarm-Remarks of Secretary Powell, March 5, 2003 (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Remarks of Secretary Powell to the UN Security Council- February 14, 2003
Remarks of Secretary Powell to the UN Security Council- February 5, 2003
Background Notes-Iraq

DefenseLINK-Department of Defense
Official DoD news, reports, and sites.
DefendAmerica-Pentagon-Department of Defense

Congress

LexisNexis Congressional
Indexing begins 1970, earliest fulltext from mid-1980's. Provides access to U.S. legislative information including legislative histories, bills, laws, regulations, committee hearings, reports and documents, and current legislative news. To read testimony before various Congressional committees, select Testimony, enter Iraq in the keyword dialog box , select a particular committee, e.g., Senate Foreign Relations, or leave at Any Committee, and select a t ime frame. Also, check out Hot Topics-Iraq links.

House Joint Resolution 114 on Iraq
Bill passed on October 10, 2002 by House and October 11, 2002 by Senate.
House Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
Vote passed 296 to 133 on October 10, 2002.
Senate Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
Vote passed 77 to 23 on October 11, 2002

House Armed Services Committee
Senate Committee on Armed Services
House Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
House Committee on International Relations
Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Estimated Costs of a Potential War with Iraq-Congressional Budget Office
Released by the CBO on September 30, 2002, the report estimates a monthly cost of $6-9 billion per month for a war with Iraq.
GAO Reports
Investigative arm of Congress-enter Iraq as keyword or subject search.
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Analytical and background reports intended for Congressional members. Congressman Mark Green has provided links to Issue Briefs, Short Reports, and Long Reports. Scan these lists for papers on Iraq, terrorism, security, intelligence, and foreign policy.
Here is another site where you can access CRS content on the web. It is via the U.S. State Department Foreign Press center and focuses on reports about foreign affairs and related issues, including Iraq CRS Reports . Scroll down this page to find reports on Iraq map sources, U.S. military operations, etc.

Search Engines -- FirstGov Google-Uncle Sam

International - Governments & Organizations

International

Foreign Governments (Northwestern University)
Foreign Government Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)

United Nations

UN NewsCentre-Focus on Iraq
Revised Draft of Resolution Presenting Iraq with March 17, 2003 Deadline
Introduced by the United Kingdom, Spain, and the United States on March 7, 2003.
Update, March 17: The three countries did not ask for a vote on the resolution.
Summaries of Statements made to Security Council, 2/14/2003
Includes summaries of statements made by Drs. Blix and ElBaradei re: weapons inspection, as well as those of other members, including the Ambassadors from France,Iraq,China, Russian Federation,and the United Kingdom.
Summaries of Statements made to Security Council, 2/5/2003
Includes summary of Powell's statement, as well as those of other members, including Iraqi Ambassador, Mohammed A. Aldouri.
UN Security Council Resolution on Iraq-Resolution 1441
Adopted on November 8, 2002. Here is a second copy .
United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission
UNMOVIC was created in 1999 to replace the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) and continue its mandate to disarm Iraq of its WMD and to monitor/verify Iraq's compliance with Security Council resolutions.

Remarks of Dr. Hans Blix to the UN Security Council-March 7, 2003
Remarks of Dr. Hans Blix to the UN Security Council-February 14, 2003
Remarks of Dr. Hans Blix to the UN Security Council-January 27, 2003

United Nations Special Commission
UNSCOM is the predecessor to UNMOVIC. Site includes reports on weapons inspection.

International Atomic Energy Agency and Iraq
The IAEA is responsible for inspections of nuclear programs in Iraq. The work of the IAEA's Iraq Action Team is coordinated with UNMOVIC (United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission) which is responsible for the biological, chemical, and missile files. The IAEA and UNMOVIC have separate inspection teams, but work closely together.

Remarks of Director General ElBaradei to the UN Security Council-March 7, 2003
Remarks of IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to the UN Security Council-February 14, 2003

Great Britain

Foreign & Commonwealth Office News-Iraq
Blair & Bush: Messages to the Iraqi People
April 10, 2003
Prime Minister Tony Blair's Address to the Nation, March 20, 2003
Statement of Prime Minister Tony Blair to the House of Commons, March 18, 2003
Statement by Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary, to the UN Security Council, March 7, 2003
Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction-The Assessment of the British Government
Presented by Prime Minister Tony Blair on September 24, 2002 (55 pages-pdf)
Blair's Statement to the Emergency Session of the House of Commons-September 24, 2002

Iraq

Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mission of Iraq to the United Nations
Iraq's Letter Accepting Security Council Resolution 1441 (ABC News)
Text of letter submitted by Naji Sabri, the Iraqi foreign minister, to Secretary General Kofi Anan, November 13, 2002.
Saddam Hussein's Letter to the General Assembly
Read by Naji Sabri, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the UN General Assembly on September 19, 2002.

Reference Sources

. Atlas of the World REF G1021.O94 2000 (Atlas Table)
. Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East REF DS43.E53 1996
. Encyclopedia of Nationalism REFJC311.E52 2001
. Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion REF BL65.P7 E53 1998
. Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War REF UF500.G8 1995
. Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations REF E183.7.E53 1997
. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace & Conflict REF HM291 .E625 1999
. Encyclopedia of World Terrorism REF HV6431.E53 1997
. Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991 REF DS79.72.N48 1998
. Human Rights Encyclopedia REF AJC571.L523 2001
. Middle East REF DS63.1.M484 2000
. Middle East and North Africa REF DS49.M5 2001
. Nonviolent Action : A Research Guide REF HM278 .M33 1997
. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World-Ref DS35.53.O95 1995
. Persian Gulf War Almanac REF DS79.72.S862 1995
. Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East REF DS62.8.p64 1999
. Statesman's Yearbook REF JA51.S7 2000/2001
. Times Atlas of the World REF G1021.T55 1999 (Atlas Table)
. World Atlas On-Line (Facts on File web site-select Geography )
. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations REF G63.W67 2001

Find Books

TCNJ Library Catalog Search by keyword (e.g. iraq and war, "united states" and "foreign policy" and war) or by LC subject headings such as:

Aggression (International law)
Economic sanctions Iraq.
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-
Iraq Politics and government
Nonviolence.
Persian Gulf War, 1991
Persian Gulf War, 1991 Mass media and the war
United States Foreign relations 1993-2001.

Find Articles

America: History and Life (1964-) Abstracts of articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Historical Abstracts (1954-) Abstracts of articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
JSTOR Full text archive of 120 scholarly journals. Subject strengths include political science and history.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) (1972-) Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from the public and social policy literature of business, economics, education, health, law, international relations, public administration, government, political science, and other social sciences. Materials indexed are from all over the world.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1976-) Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from scholarly journals, major news magazines and books devoted to national and international politics and political analysis.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) (Indexing begins 1984-; earliest Full Text from 1990-) Provides citations and abstracts to over 4,000 journals covering most academic areas. Approximately two-thirds of the articles are available as full text.
(Wilson Web) OmniFile Full Text Mega (Indexing & Abstracting, 1982-; earliest Full Text from 1994.)Provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text to the Wilson databases for Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, and the Social Sciences.

Other Sources

Academic Info: Iraq Studies Links to media sources, history, and politics of this country.
Arab Human Development Report 2002 Prepared by the United Nations Development Programme, it covers 22 Arab states.
Brookings Institution Think tank that focuses on many U.S. policies, including foreign policy.
Brookings Institution Policy Brief-The New Security Strategy and Preemption Issued December 2002, this brief addresses policy implications of President Bush's new national security strategy.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace-Crisis in Iraq News, analysis, and multimedia resources.
Center for Strategic and International Studies Think tank that focuses on current and emerging global issues.
Chemical and Biological Warfare Project A SIPRI-Bradford joint endeavor that seeks to disseminate information on chemical/biological warfare issues. Includes excellent overviews, briefs, papers, and links to relevant key documents and official texts.
Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project An information clearinghouse regarding chemical and biological weapons issues sponsored by the Henry L. Stimson Center.
Democratic Mirage in the Middle East Policy brief from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which examines prospects for building democracy in Iraq and the Middle East.
Iraq and Arms Control (SIPRI) The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute promotes international disarmament. The SIPRI Yearbook provides an annual overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditures, etc. This webpage is a summary of articles on Iraq from the past 10 years.
Iraq Special Weapons Guide (Global Security) Descriptions of Iraq's weapons programs, facilities, intelligence and deception activities, and a very thorough compilation of links to relevant UN documents.
Iraq Debate-Council on Foreign Relations
Iraq War Debate A very comprehensive page produced by the University of Michigan Documents Center. An excellent place to start research.
Moving Ideas Online analysis of policy and trends presented by consortium of public policy organizations.
Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The US Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984 The National Security Archive, a non-governmental library of declassified documents at George Washington University, has released an electronic briefing booking dealing with the United State's relations with Iraq in the early 1980's. It includes an extended historical essay and links to declassified documents.
Terrorism: Questions & Answers-Council on Foreign Relations This site is researched and reported by the nonpartisan staff of the Council. It is essentially "An Encyclopedia of What We Know and What We Don't Know"-Browse the table of contents or index for entries on Iraq.
US Institute of Peace Library: Iraq Web Links Very nice topical list of relevant links.
War on Terrorism: Saddam Hussein and Iraq Excellent page of links provided by the Joyner Library at East Carolina University. Sections include News and Commentary , Government Documents , Political Background and Analysis , Military and Strategic Issues , Weapons of Mass Destruction , and The Impact of Sanctions .
War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives Issued by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee on International Security Studies, December 2002. The 93-page report examines the political, military, and economic consequences of war with Iraq.
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources Resource categories include media sources, organizations, think tanks, regions and countries, and topics, e.g., world religions, international development, etc.

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