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	IRAQ. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Iraq is bordered on the south by Kuwait, the Persian Gulf, and Saudi Arabia; on the west by Jordan and Syria; on the north by Turkey; and on the east by Iran.
		Iraq’s only outlet to the sea is a short stretch of coast on the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf, including the Shatt al Arab waterway.
		Iraq is a veritable treasure house of antiquities, and recent archaeological excavations have greatly expanded the knowledge of ancient history.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ir/Iraq.html (2389 words)

	Iraq's Missiles: a Brief History
		Iraq declared to UN inspectors that it had conducted 21 flight tests of the Fahad missiles before the first Gulf War, although this was not verified.
		Iraq's solid-fuel efforts were directed at a rocket called the "Al Ababil" (also known as the "Ababil-100") which was designed to have a range of 130 to 140km.
		Iraq claimed that the J-1 had never been intended to reach proscribed ranges, and stated that the longest range achieved during the tests in 1993 was 134 kilometers.
	www.iraqwatch.org /profiles/missile.html (3456 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		With Iraq now set to begin oil transactions in euros as early as next week, President Saddam Hussein has clearly made up his mind that banning the dollar is worth flying in the face of financial logic.
		Iraq has long complained that the oil-for-food program allows it to use only about a half of the money it earns from oil sales to purchase humanitarian goods.
		Iraq says the delays are a deliberate policy by Washington and London to keep sanctions tight.
	www.rferl.org /features/2000/11/01112000160846.asp (1143 words)

	1900-2000: Iraq timeline \| libcom.org
		Since the state of Iraq was created early this century, the working class in the area have suffered brutal exploitation and repression at the hands of the rival ruling class groups competing for power.
		Iraq is admitted to the League of Nations, becoming formally independent - although Britain remains in a powerful influence.
		American support for Iraq in the war is reflected in the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
	www.libcom.org /history/articles/iraq-1900-2000 (4569 words)

	3/22/2000 Leventhal Iraq Testimony
		Iraq was permitted by the IAEA to retain possession of 1.7 metric tons of uranium enriched to 2.6% U-235, as well as some 13 tons of natural uranium stocks.
		Although there is evidence that Iraq manufactured and tested a number of nuclear-weapon components, including the high-explosive "lenses" needed to compress the uranium core and trigger a nuclear explosion, none of these components, or evidence of their destruction, have been surrendered to IAEA inspectors.
		Iraq, as a signer of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, was subject to IAEA inspections on all nuclear facilities.
	www.nci.org /iraq/iraq322.htm (2845 words)

	RAND \| Hot Topics \| Iraq
		President George W. Bush asserts that fighting in Iraq is a necessary correction to the responses by the Carter, Reagan, and Clinton administrations to earlier terrorist challenges.
		Iraq's new government and its American and coalition allies are faced with the challenge of simultaneously fighting the insurgency raging across the country on both the military and political levels.
		Summarizes discussion at the May 2003 Geneva Centre for Security conference: impact of Iraq on the war on terrorism; the future of Iran and Iraq, the war on Syria, the Levant, Turkey, Jordan, and the Arabian peninsula; and the effect of the war on transatlantic ties.
	www.rand.org /hot_topics/iraq.html (4818 words)

	Mena 6
		The stalemate over Iraq's incomplete compliance with the disarmament demands of the Security Council continued, as did sharp division among the five permanent members of the council over what steps to take to secure full compliance and to address the continuing humanitarian crisis, which was complicated by a serious drought in the region.
		A four-night air assault on Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom in mid-December 1998 was followed by almost daily attacks on Iraqi air defense installations in the southern and northern "no-fly" zones.
		Iraq submitted its fourteenth periodic report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in February 1999.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k/Mena-05.htm (2437 words)

	CNN - International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors arrive in Iraq - January 21, 2000
		BAGHDAD, Iraq -- International nuclear arms inspectors are in Iraq, although their mission is unrelated to the inspections the U.N. says must take place for sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait to be lifted.
		During their scheduled three to four days in Iraq, the IAEA inspectors were expected to travel to a former nuclear site called Tuwaitha to check on almost two tons of low-grade uranium, remnants of a secret Iraqi program to build nuclear weapons.
		Iraq says it has not formally rejected the resolution, but with disagreements on the U.N. Security Council, it could be a while before that's put to the test.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/01/21/iraq.inspection (552 words)

	Iraq Special Weapons - Nuclear, Biological Chemical and Missile Proliferation News
		IRAQ / U-N, Voice of America, 23 August 2000 -- Iraq has rejected a new United Nations team created to monitor Iraqi weapons programs and says it will not be allowed to enter the country, even if it means continued international sanctions.
		IRAQ / RAID, Voice of America, 12 August 2000 -- The government of Iraq says U-S and British warplanes have attacked a town in southern Iraq, and reports from the region say one person was killed and 20 wounded.
		IRAQ / ALBRIGHT, Voice of America, 02 August 2000 -- Secretary of State Madeline Albright has marked the tenth anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait by saying Saddam Hussein is to blame for his country's misery.
	www.fas.org /news/iraq/2000/08/index.html (1149 words)

	China MFA: Iraq Fact Sheet - 2000
		Iraq demanded that the debt of about 15 billion US dollars owed to Kuwait be formally remitted since Iraq's fighting against Iran had protected the Arab nationality.
		In November, 1994, Iraq acknowledged in its announcement the Iraq-Kuwait boundary demarcated by the UN.
		Iraq also shelled and intercepted British and American planes patrolling in the "no-fly zone", while the US and the UK time and again bombed the targets in or even outside the "no-fly zones" in Iraq.
	www.iraqwatch.org /government/China/china-mfa-iraqfacts.htm (1332 words)

	Iraq Special Weapons - Nuclear, Biological Chemical and Missile Proliferation News
		IRAQ ELECTIONS Voice of America 28 March 2000 -- Iraqi election officials say all 165 candidates of the ruling Baath party have been elected to the new parliament in balloting that was cast as a show of support for President Saddam Hussein.
		IRAQ ELECTIONS Voice of America 27 March 2000 -- Most of Iraq's nine-million eligible voters cast ballots (Monday) in an election that the official news media cast as a vote of solidarity for President Saddam Hussein.
		IRAQ SANCTIONS Voice of America 17 March 2000 -- A coalition of private organizations is calling for an end to United Nations sanctions on Iraq.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2000/index_03.html (1222 words)

	Badr-2000 - Iraq Special Weapons
		By 1987 or early 1988, Iraq became unhappy with the slow pace of the project and suspicious that is partners might be siphoning off some of the billions invested.
		Iraq soon realized that it would not receive any of the contracted missiles, nor most of the contracted infrastructure.
		Iraq declared that, in the beginning of 1989, it attempted to complete the BADR 2000 project by itself, in particular the production of solid propellant motors.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iraq/badr-2000.htm (1279 words)

	USA and Iraq 1963-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan.
		Iraq, with the blessing and official approval of the US government, purchased computer controlled machine tools, computers, scientific instruments, special alloy steel and aluminum, chemicals, and other industrial goods for Iraq's missile, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.
		Under Clinton, Iraq remained under UN sanctions which had a devastating effect on the people of Iraq - but were ineffective in achieving a change of government in Baghdad.
	www.eurolegal.org /neoconwars/usandiraq.htm (5977 words)

	Iraq. In: Amnesty International Report 2001
		The government of Iraq continued to reject UN Resolution 1284, adopted in December 1999.
		However, she was reportedly arrested before the introduction of the policy to behead prostitutes and was said to have been critical of corruption within the health services.
		In June Najib al-Salihi, a former army general who fled Iraq in 1995 and joined the Iraqi opposition, was sent a videotape showing the rape of a female relative.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2001.nsf/webmepcountries/IRAQ (1952 words)

	Intelligence Briefs: Iraq (December 2000)
		The report repeats some of the same charges made two weeks before in the same magazine, which explained that it was such a massive operation and was so carefully planned, that it was virtually impossible for a terrorist group to have carried out the attack without state support.
		Arab sources tell MEIB that the Saudi leadership is thoroughly convinced that Iraq was behind the attack and that they are exasperated by the U.S. insistence on blaming it solely on Osama bin Ladin.
		Iraq's intransigence, as displayed in Aziz' visit, dealt a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's aspiration to employ what the Russians hoped would be a demonstration of their influence over Baghdad to establish some standing for Russia in the Persian Gulf region.
	www.meib.org /articles/0012_irb.htm (1120 words)

	ICE Cases: Iran-Iraq War and Waterway Claims
		Iraq, which relies primarily on oil exports to generate foreign exchange earnings, suffered severe losses during the war.
		Likewise per capita GDP was estimated at $2000 for Iraq and $5300 for Iran.
		Iraq's initial invasion met with a good deal of success but eventually became bogged down and was unable to capitalize on its early successes.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/iraniraq.htm (1887 words)

	IRAQ
		In the interest of preventing such a war, the Iraqi Foreign Minister's statement to the UN/GA that the country is free of WMD and the agreement by the Iraqi authorities to re-admit unconditionally UN arms inspectors at this stage should be taken at face value and UNMOVIC's installation in Baghdad be pursued without delay.
		UNICEF in its annual State of the Children's report identified Iraq as the country which showed an increase of 160% in the mortality rate of children under five for the period 1990 to 1999.
		In the absence of an objective position on Iraq, The EU had been largely excluded as a contributor to the international Iraq debate.
	www.irak.be /ned/bivv/iraq4questions4answers.htm (2676 words)

	Global Exchange : 2000 Too Many
		This is the 2000 we should be afraid of.
		This is the 2000 we must grieve, honor and reflect upon.
		These are 2000 human beings we've lost; 2000 people with names, with grieving families; 2000 people with hopes and dreams that will never be realized.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/mideast/iraq/3534.html (564 words)

	CNN - Tests show oil on Russian tanker was from Iraq - February 6, 2000
		WASHINGTON -- Tests on oil carried by a Russian tanker seized by the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf confirmed that it was carrying Iraqi oil, in defiance of a United Nations embargo, U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen said.
		It is not clear what the Iraqi naval officer was doing aboard the ship, but a senior U.S. official speculated Sunday that he might have been providing navigational assistance to the crew as they sailed through Iraqi and Iranian territorial waters.
		Smugglers in the region are known to sail close to the Iranian coast, where the Multinational Maritime Interdiction Force, charged with enforcing the U.N. embargo against Iraq, does not have jurisdiction to board and inspect.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/02/06/russian.tanker (543 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000 - Oct 26, 2005
		In Washington, the Senate paused in silence to honor the Americans who died in Iraq, after which members of both parties praised the troops for their sacrifice.
		The Iraq Body Count -- a London-based group comprised of academics, human rights and anti-war activists -- estimates between 26,690 and 30,051 civilians in Iraq have been killed since the start of hostilities in March 2003.
		With more than 150,000 troops still in harm's way in Iraq, Durbin said "the choice we face in Iraq is not a choice between resolve and retreat.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.main/index.html (1132 words)

	Badr-2000 - Iraq Special Weapons
		Condor II Beginning in 1984 or 1985, Iraq started a cooperative effort with Egypt, and Argentina to develop a high-technology, two-stage missile system designed for a range of around 1,000 km, called the BADR 2000 in Iraq and Egypt and the Condor II by Argentina.
		In summer 1988, Abdel Kader Helmy was arrested in California for illegally transferring technology for the Condor II to Egypt.
		Some additional materials, equipment and technologies were received by Iraq in 1989 and 1990.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/iraq/missile/badr-2000.htm (805 words)

	Online NewsHour: Sanctioning Iraq -- May 3, 2000
		HANS VON SPONECK: The sanctions were introduced to bring about changes in Iraq, and nine years of sanctions have seen a regime, a government remain in the saddle but off the saddle when 23 went 23 million Iraqis.
		It was supposed to be targeted at relieving some of the hardships of sanctions and giving Iraq some of the resources it needed to provide food and medicine for its population.
		I don't know whether the audience is aware that every year at the moment, there is on average, only $252 per person available to meet the physical needs alone, let alone the other needs in education and in socialization of the youth, the young people.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june00/iraq_5-3.html (1885 words)

	Workers World Feb. 3, 2000: Iraq Sanctions Challengers return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Iraq Sanctions Challenge, defying U.S. law and the U.S./UN blockade, arrived in Baghdad on the ninth anniversary of the Gulf war.
		Iraq provided humanitarian assistance to a number of Arab and African countries.
		These two "great powers" are the same ones that together exploited Iraq and its vast oil resources before the 1958 revolution, consigning the Iraqi masses to lives of extreme poverty.
	www.workers.org /ww/2000/iraq0203.php (1231 words)

	Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 12/11/2000
		Iraq's suspension of its oil exports under the United Nations oil-for-food program continued into its twelfth day even though the humanitarian scheme had been extended, the UN office overseeing the effort said on Tuesday.
		Iraq agrees to extend the oil for food agreement
		Iraq on Monday announced its consent to extend working in the oil for food agreement, signed with the UN for other six months.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Iraq/20001211.html (418 words)

	Timeline Iraq 2000-2004
		2000 Jan 26, The UN appointed Hans Blix of Sweden to be the new weapons inspector for Iraq.
		Iraq has until Dec. 8 to provide weapons inspectors and the Security Council with a complete declaration of all aspects of its chemical, biological and nuclear programs.
		Iraq also demanded that the UN strip Israel of weapons of mass destruction, require withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territory and that the UN brand the US and Britain as liars.
	timelines.ws /countries/IRAQ_B.HTML (16612 words)

	Restructure Iraq Embargo, Try Leaders for War Crimes (Press release, New York, January 5, 2000)
		(New York, January 5, 2000) In a letter released today Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Security Council to tighten controls on Iraq's ability to import weapons-related goods, but lift most restrictions on non-military trade and investment in order to address the country's continuing humanitarian crisis.
		But Iraq's callous manipulation of the sanctions is part of the reality that the Security Council has to take into account.
		Many of these were part of the omnibus Iraq sanctions resolution adopted on December 17, but require further action by the Council or the sanctions committee.
	www.hrw.org /press/2000/01/iraq-pr.htm (798 words)

	Iraq Economy 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $100 billion from the war.
		Iraq's seizure of Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international economic sanctions, and damage from military action by an international coalition beginning in January 1991 drastically reduced economic activity.
		For the first six six-month phases of the program, Iraq was allowed to export limited amounts of oil in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods.
	www.photius.com /wfb2000/countries/iraq/iraq_economy.html (413 words)

	Horoscope of Iraq: 14 July 1958
		Iraq Horoscopes of Countries, Mundane Astrology, Nations, Astrocartography of Iraq, Mundane Horoscope of Iraq, Astrology Chart of Iraq, Independence of Iraq, History of Iraq, Political Astrology
		Source: "The current Republic of Iraq owes its origins to a military coup on 14 July 1958 in Baghdad...
		Political Astrology, History of Iraq, Independence of Iraq, Mundane Astrology Chart of Iraq, Astrocartography of Iraq, Mundane Horoscope of Iraq, Chart of Iraq, Astrocartography, Maps, Astrology Charts of Nations, Horoscopes of Countries
	members.tripod.com /tra_nations/a_iraq.htm (230 words)

	IRaq 2000: Country Report
		On December 4, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned what it termed Iraq's "systematic, widespread, and extremely grave" abuses of human rights-an assessment that left little doubt about the moribund state of free expression in the country.
		Newspapers, radio, and television were heavily censored and larded with paeans to the Iraqi strongman.
		In late 1999, the government announced that it would allow restricted access to satellite television on a subscription basis, but there was no word on how or when the proposal would be implemented.
	www.cpj.org /attacks00/mideast00/Iraq.html (414 words)

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