IRAQ: SELECTED ONLINE RESOURCES
March 2003
Compiled by Glenda
Armstrong
Bibliographer, Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL
CONTENTS
The Iraq Crisis
and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Current News
Coalition Forces
Humanitarian Efforts
Peace Movement
Prisoners of War
U.S. Forces
Iraq - Background
Information
Saddam
Hussein
Iraq Military and Defense
Forces
Iraq and
Weapons of Mass Destruction
United States Policy
and Iraq
United Nations and
Iraq
Human
Rights in Iraq
Iraq and
Terrorism
Other Web Resource Guides
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All sites last accessed 02 April 2003.
The Iraq Crisis and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Blogs of War
Available online at: http://www.blogsofwar.com/
A web journal.
CENTCOM Briefings
Available online at: http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/transcripts/transcript_list.htm
United States Central Command transcripts of news briefings.
ABCNews.com: War with Iraq
Available online at: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/IraqIndex.html
Has the latest news, reporters' notebooks, news analyses, weapons and
forces, timelines and behind the scenes reports.
ArabNews
Available online at: http://www.arabnews.com
Saudi Arabia English daily.
BBC News Key Maps
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_iraq_key_maps/html/
Clickable maps on military
build-up, air bases, oil fields and weapons sites.
BBC News Military Fact File
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/02/military_fact_files/html/
Information on military forces of the U.K., U.S., and Iraq, and the missile
defenses of Israel. Browse by firepower, biochemical weapons, forces, and
equipment for air, land, and sea. Also provides information on biological
warfare, including delivery, storage, transport, spread, detection, protective
equipment, antidotes, and proliferation.
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation: Attack on Iraq
Available online at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/iraq/
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation site that has daily news, special
reports, maps and the Canadian perspective on the war.
CNN News - Special Report -
Showdown Iraq
Available online at: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/iraq/
Latest developments, top stories and background information.
DefenseLink News Transcripts
Available online at: http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/
Forces: U.S. and Coalition
Casualties
Available online at: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/index.html
From CNN lists confirmed coalition deaths. Includes name, age,
unit, hometown, details of death and a photograph.
GoogleNews
Available online at: http://news.google.com/
Up to the minute world news.
Iraq Crisis Bulletin
Available online at: http://www.iraqcrisisbulletin.com/
Multiple articles on the Iraq war
crisis from correspondents around the world. Archive begins March 14, 2003
and ends April 17, 2003, and is searchable.
New York Times.com: A
Nation at War
Available online at: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial/
Gives complete coverage of the war and related domestic and
international news.
PBS Online NewsHour: The
Iraq War
Available online at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/
Online version of PBS NewsHour covers the military campaign,
international aspects, the home front and the humanitarian situation.
Reuters Focus Iraq
Available online at: http://asia.reuters.com/newsChannel.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews
Breaking news.
UN News Centre
Available online at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=50&Body=Iraq&Body1=
Daily news about the UN efforts regarding the current Iraqi
crisis.
Voice of America News.com
Available online at: http://www.voanews.com/index.cfm
Latest news and Special Report: Conflict in Iraq.
WashingtonPost.com - Confronting
Iraq
Available online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/iraq/front.htm
News and perspectives on the buildup to war.
White House Press
Briefings: The Iraq War
Available online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/
ArmedForces.co.uk
Available online at: http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/telic-pr.cfm
Statistics and numbers of equipment and manpower the U.K. is providing Operation
Telic.
Australia Defence Department
Available online at: http://www.defence.gov.au/opfalconer/
Disarmament of Iraq: Operation Falconer site has fact sheets,
images and video.
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
Terrorism Project
Available online at: http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/telic-pr.cfm
Operation Telic: No Ordinary Measure - January 23, 2003
statement.
Focus on Iraq
Available online at: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page3170.asp
Statements from the U.K. Prime Minister's office include background
information on Iraq and the current crisis; links to the P.M.'s speeches and key
information on the U.K. military and their support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
(Operation Telic).
Kurdistan Regional Government
Available online at: http://www.krg.org/
Their homepage contains information about the KRG and current news.
Military Operations to Disarm Iraq
Available online at: http://www.ukun.org/xq/asp/SarticleType.17/Article_ID.595/qx/articles_show.htm
UK Mission to the United Nations -
a statement by Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon,
House of Commons, London, 20 March 2003.
Operation Iraqi Freedom:
Statement of Support from Coalition
Available online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030325-8.html
The White House.
Operation Telic
Available online at: http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/index.htm
Great Britain Ministry of Defence headlines and photos, links to
briefings.
Prime Minister of Australia
Available online at: http://www.pm.gov.au/iraq/index.cfm
Provides links to current news, documents and other material on Iraq,
and the PM's speech of March 20, 2003 committing Australian troops to the
conflict.
Royal Air Force - Operation Telic
Available online at: http://www.raf.mod.uk/telic/index.html
Latest news on RAF forces in Iraq and links to news and images.
Human Rights Watch
Available online at: http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/iraq021203/iraq-bck021203.pdf
Iraqi Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Displaced Persons: Current
Conditions and Concerns in the Event of War, a Human Rights Watch Briefing
Paper, February 2003.
Humanitarian Crisis Response
Available online at: http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Humanitarian_Response.shtml
FirstGov.gov site with links to humanitarian relief, reconstruction in
Iraq and how the average person can help.
International Red Cross
Available online at: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/special_iraq
Links to humanitarian assistance information and prisoner of war visits.
Network for Good
Available online at: http://www.networkforgood.org/
Links to information on how to support our troops overseas and how to
contribute to humanitarian relief efforts in Iraq.
ReliefWeb
Available online at: http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
Project of the United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
ElectronicIraq.net
Available online at: http://electroniciraq.net/news/
A portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners
Voices in the Wilderness and Middle East supplementary news publishers.
FCNL - Friends Committee on
National Legislation
Available online at: http://www.fcnl.org/issues/int/iraindx.htm
A Quaker lobby in the public interest. FCNL seeks to bring the concerns,
experiences and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends to bear on
policy decisions in the nation's capital.
International Answer: Stop
War and End Racism
Available online at: http://www.internationalanswer.org/
Call for worldwide rallies against war and racism.
Iraq Body Count
Available online at: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
"A Human Security project to establish an independent and comprehensive
public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly
from military actions by the USA and its allies in 2003."
Just War--Or a Just War? Op Ed by
Jimmy Carter - The Carter Center, 9 March 2003
Available online at: http://www.cartercenter.org/viewdoc.asp?docID=1249&submenu=news
"For a war to be just, it must meet several clearly defined
criteria." - commentary on the potential
conflict in Iraq.
OneWorld.net
Available online at: http://www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/236/4182
Current news and links to reports on the economic, political and
humanitarian consequences of the Iraq war.
Stop the War Coalition
Available online at: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
A UK-based organization which has mobilized UK and international action
against the war. It continues to be the main focus for UK anti-war
activism.
United for Peace and Justice
Available online at: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
National campaign that brings together a broad range of organizations
throughout the United States to help coordinate efforts against a U.S. war on
Iraq.
Bartleby.com
Available online at: http://www.bartleby.com/65/pr/prisoner.html
Prisoners of War - historical attitudes and synopses of Geneva
Conventions of 1929 and 1949 from the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition,
2001.
The Geneva Convention and Prisoners of War by Anthony
Dworkin for the Crimes of War Project: The
War in Iraq
Available online at: http://www.crimesofwar.org/special/Iraq/brief-pow.html
Also links to related articles.
Geneva Convention Relative to the
Treatment of Prisoners of War
Available online at: http://193.194.138.190/html/menu3/b/91.htm
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights complete text of the
instrument.
Iraq Prisoners
Pose New Test for Geneva Conventions: Both
Sides Have Taken Prisoners, but the US Faces Burden of Being Viewed as Global Role
Model on POWs by
Warren Richey for the Christian Science Monitor
Available online at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0326/p02s01-woiq.html
Marines. The Few. The
Proud
Available online at: http://www.usmc.mil
Official website of the U.S. Marine Corps. Provides to current
news on the war, and other links to war related information such as care package
and troop support.
Navy Newsstand
Available online at: http://www.news.navy.mil/
United States Navy Eye on the Fleet and top stories.
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Available online at: http://c21.maxwell.af.mil/iraq.htm
Air National Guard Conflict 21 - links to current news and background
information. Consolidation of current information and links to military,
political and international sites.
Operation Iraqi Freedom -
Iraq: Special Report
Available online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/index.html
United States. White House news releases, presidential remarks, updates
and briefings from U.S. and coalition forces.
USAF Support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom
Available online at: http://www.af.mil/news/opscenter/index.shtml
Current news, ops photos, and background information.
The United States Army Operation
Iraqi Freedom
Available online at: http://www.army.mil/operations/Iraq/default.html
Situation maps, current news headlines, maps/information, images.
United States Coast Guard
Available online at: http://www.uscg.mil/USCG.shtm
Contains news and services. Outlines its multi-mission maritime duties
during war when it comes under the Secretary of the Navy.
Backgrounder Iraq
Available online at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/iraq/
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation site. Contains background
information on Iraq from World War I to the present, the present conflict,
weapons inspections and biographical information.
CIA World Factbook 2002 - Iraq
Available online at:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html
Information on general
history, geography, the people, government, economy, communications,
transportation, the military and transnational issues.
CNN Special Report: Iraq
Available online at: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/iraq/
Gives background information on Iraq and its relations with the U.S. and
the U.N. There are also links to CNN's "Showdown Iraq" and
Time's "Target Saddam."
Iraq Resource Center
Available online at: http://www.cfr.org/reg_index.php?id=6|35||1
Council on Foreign Relations gives background, War on Terrorism, weapons
of mass destruction, cost of the war, etc.
The Lesson of Iraq - by William
R. Polk, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1958.
Available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/58dec/polk.htm
Historical perspective of the
Iraqi coup d'état of Nuri, and speculates as to what lies ahead for
Jordan and the Arabian peninsula. (Note the date, and compare then and
now.)
Library of Congress Country Study -
Iraq
Available online at: http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/iqtoc.html
Includes
a profile that covers geography, society, economy, transportation, government
and politics and national security. There are also links to the history
and current demographics.
Maps of Iraq
Available online
at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html
Links
to the Perry-Castanada Library Map Collection which has country maps of Iraq,
city maps of Baghdad, detailed maps and thematic maps.
Timeline: Iraq
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1174753.stm
From BBC News. Provides a brief chronology of key events from 1990
to the present.
United States. Department of State. Iraq
Page
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c3212.htm
Iraq
country information, background notes, special reports and press
releases.
WWW Virtual Library History:
Iraq
Available online at: http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/near_east/iraq.html
University of Kansas site has links to map sources, timelines and
ancient to modern history.
ABCNews.com Newsmakers Biography of
Saddam Hussein
Available online at: http://abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/shussein.html
Background
information about Hussein with links to current news articles about him.
BBC News Saddam Hussein
Profile
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1100529.stm
An
overview of the life of Hussein from early childhood to the
present.
Biography of President Saddam Hussein, President of the
Republic of Iraq
Available online at: http://www.iraqi-mission.org/Saddam/saddamcv.htm
CV
of Hussein as posted on the United Nations website by the Iraqi
mission.
Frontline: The Survival of Saddam
Available
online at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/
Tells
how Hussein has survived so long, gives secrets of his leadership, contains
photos and tells the Kurds' story.
Profile of Saddam Hussein - MidEastNews.com
Available online at: http://www.mideastnews.com/saddam.htm
Explains
his popularity in the Arab world and why his grip on Iraq is so
strong.
Saddam Hussein - In His Own Words
Available online at:
http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/oct2002/a101802a.html
Quotes from Saddam and Iraq's regime-controlled
media.
Saddam
Hussein's Iraq
Available online at: http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/iraq99.htm
U.S. Department of
State - Presents
the facts concerning Iraq under Hussein.
Tales of the Tyrant - by Mark
Bowden, Atlantic Monthly, May 2002
Available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/bowden.htm
"What does Saddam Hussein see in himself that no
one else in the world seems to see? The answer is perhaps best revealed by the
intimate details of the Iraqi leader's daily life."
Iraq Military and Defense Forces
Analysis: Who are the
Fedaydeen Saddam?
Available online at: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030326-100811-9614r
United Press International (UPI) analysis.
Iraqi Forces
Available online at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/iraq/military_strategy/iraqi_forces.html
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation gives the inventory of the Iraqi Army
and its Air force as of 2002.
CIA World Factbook
2002
Available online at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html#Military
Gives
Iraq's military manpower and military expenditures.
CDI Fact Sheet: Iraqi Armed
Forces
Available online at: http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/iraqiarmedforces-pr.cfm
Information
taken from the 2002-2003 Military Balance - lists numbers of personnel in each
military branch in addition to equipment.
Iraq Command and
Control
Available online at: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/iraq/command/
From
CNN and Jane's World Armies (1996) - has links to other sites detailing Iraq's
military assets such as their Air Force and other military
equipment.
Iraq Military Guide
Available online at: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/index.html
From
GlobalSecurity.org has links to maps, ground forces, security agencies, Air
Force, Navy and industry.
Iraq: What is the Fedayeen
Saddam?
Available online at: http://www.cfr.org/background/background_iraq_fedayeen.php
Council on Foreign Relations.
Republican Guard
available
online at: http://fas.org/irp/world/iraq/rg/
Intelligence
from the Federation of American Scientists - gives the organization of a typical
Republican Guard armored division.
Saddam's Martyrs ("Men of
Sacrifice") Fedayeen Saddam
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/fedayeen/
Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Intelligence Resource program.
Saddam's Martyrs ("Men of
Sacrifice") Fedayeen Saddam
Available online at: http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/iraq/fedayeen.htm
Global Security.org description.
Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Iraq and Weapons of Mass
Destruction
Available online at: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80/
National Security Archive collection of documents pertaining to Iraq's
efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and the United Nations inspection
and monitoring regime.
Iraq: From Fear to Freedom:
WMD the Deadliest Threat of All
Available online at:
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/iraq/threat.htm
A U.S.
Department of State International Information Program document - has a link to
documented chemical attacks by Iraq.
Iraq Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and
Missile Capabilities Programs
Available online at: http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/iraq.htm
Monterey
Institute of International Studies.
Iraq WMD Dossier
Statement
Available online at:
http://www.iiss.org/news-more.php?itemID=88
The International
Institute for Strategic Studies.
Iraq: Weapons of Mass
Destruction
Available online at: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/middle_east/iraq_weapons-en.asp
Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade site
provides a discussion of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Has links to
international and Canadian report.
Iraq's Weapons of Mass
Destruction
Available online
at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/iraqdossier.pdf
The
Assessment of the British Government.
Iraq's Weapons of Mass
Destruction Programs
Available online at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm
A
CIA publication, October 2002 - information on Iraq's nuclear weapons, chemical
weapons, biological weapons and ballistic missile program.
Iraq
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Available online at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1032774649038
A
report from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The Iraqi WMD Challenge: Myths
and Reality
Available online at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/congress/house1.htm
Task
Force on Unconventional Warfare , U.S. House of Representatives, Washington,
D.C., February 10, 1998.
Saddam's Ultimate Solution
Available online at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/saddam/
A companion site for the PBS television program that explored the
question, "are Iraq's chemical and biological weapons attacks on Kurdistan
part of a larger agenda of terror?" Discussion, photo essay, interactive
maps, and more. From the WIDE ANGLE documentary series.
Weapons of Mass Destruction in the
Middle East
Available online at: http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/iraq.htm
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monterey Institute of
International studies. Provides information on weapons, usage, treaties
and capabilities.
Defend America News - Iraq:
Facing the Threat
Available online at:
http://www.defendamerica.mil/iraq.html
News, map and links to related
sites.
Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's
Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003
Available online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ogc/apparatus/
United States. White House. Links to "Iraq
Update." Also includes links to
Presidential Remarks, press briefings and White House documents.
A Decade of Deception and Defiance
Available online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912.html
United States. White House. Links to "Iraq
Update" and other White House documents.
Shaking Hands with Saddam
Hussein: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984
Available online at: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
National Security Archive provides links to unclassified documents on
the U.S.-Iraqi relationship during the 1980s.
United States. Department of
State. International Information Programs - Iraq Update
Available online
at: http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/
Links
to sites with current news about Iraq, official texts, key reports and fact
sheets, Iraq's arsenals and other links relevant to Iraq.
War with Iraq: Costs,
Consequences, and Alternatives.
Available online at: http://www.amacad.org/publications/monographs/War_with_Iraq.pdf
Publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Committee on
International Security Studies, 2002.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Available online at: http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/Press/P_release/2002/med-advise_0210.shtml
Press
releases regarding IAEA and Iraq.
Office of the Iraq Program: Oil
for Food
Available online at:
http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/
United Nations site explains U.N.
Resolution 986 which was passed "to provide for the humanitarian needs of
the Iraqi People." Contains weekly updates and a chronology of oil
export information and other U.N. resolutions.
Permanent
Mission of Iraq to the United Nations, New York
Available online at: http://www.iraqi-mission.org/
Status of Nuclear Inspections in Iraq
by IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradi.
Available online at: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/elbaradei.pdf
United Nations Development Program: Iraq
Available online
at: http://www.iq.undp.org/
United Nations Monitoring,
Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
Available online at: http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/index.htm
Explains
the mission, financing and make-up of the commission.
United Nations
ReliefWeb: Iraq: The Latest
Available online at: http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
Contains
a list of the latest major documents added to ReliefWeb pertaining to Iraq.
United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1441
Available online at: http://ods-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N02/682/26/PDF/N0268226.pdf?OpenElement
Amnesty
International
Available online at: http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/countries/iraq?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expandall
Links
to papers on the human rights situation in Iraq.
Human Rights Watch
Available online
at: http://www.hrw.org/mideast/iraq.php
Links to reports dealing with
human rights violations in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan and to the HRW World Report
2003.
The Internally
Displaced People of Iraq
Available online at: http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/IDP/articles/iraqreport.htm
The Brookings Institution
- SAIS
Project on Internal Displacement, October 2002, by John Fawcett.
Iraq: A Population
Silenced
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/16059.pdf
U.S.
Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor report.
Iraq
Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/nea/8257.htm
U.S.
Department of State report.
Iraq: Crimes Against Humanity: Leaders as
Executioners
Available online at: http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/crimes/
U.S.
Department of State. U.S. International Information Programs report.
United Nations
ReliefWeb
Available online at: http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/s/AED3C7E83873F42B8525675200557D8F
UN
Human rights expert reports "systematic and systemic violations throughout Iraq.
Overview of
State-Sponsored Terrorism
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2001/html/10249.htm
From
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2001.
President's Remarks at the United
Nations General Assembly
Available online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html
Remarks by President Bush in address to the United Nations
General Assembly, September 12, 2002, on Iraq's defiance of Security Council
Resolution 688.
Proliferation in the 'Axis of Evil':
North Korea, Iran, and Iraq
Available online at:
http://www.csis.org/burke/proliferation_axis.pdf
Center for Strategic
and International Studies report.
State-Sponsored
Terrorism
Available online at: http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/st_terror/State_t.htm
International
Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
Terrorism
Questions & Answers: Iraq
Available online at:
http://www.terrorismanswers.com/sponsors/iraq.html
Answers to
questions like "Does Iraq sponsor terrorism?"; "Does Iraq have ties with
al-Qaeda?" and "What type of terrorism groups does Iraq support?"
U.S. Department of
State. International Information Programs
Available online at:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/02101502.htm
Washington Post -
Iraq and the War on Terrorism
Available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/front.html
Addresses
the questions "Does Iraq support terrorism?" and "Was Iraq involved on September
11th?"
Conflict: Iraq and the
United States
Available online at: http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/iraq.html
American Press Institute "The Journalist's Toolbox" is a
searchable site with links to a multitude of sources
Finding Information on the
Situation in Iraq
Available online at: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/index.html
Southwest State University Library provides links to material on
background information, blogs, children, POWs and weapons of mass destruction.
Government Views of Iraq
Available online at: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/Iraqbib.html
Cohen Library of The City College of New York bibliography links to
U.S. Congressional Hearings, CENTCOM briefings, United Nations Security Council
Resolutions, etc.
Iraq Conflict Research Guide
Available online at: http://library.msstate.edu/resources/guides/Iraq.asp#b
Mississippi State University Libraries resource listing of print,
online, and Internet resources with descriptions as to the type of information
each contains.
Iraq War 2003
Available online at: http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/iraqwar/
University of Massachusetts Amherst resource page has links to news,
analysis and commentary and peace studies resources.
Librarians' Index to the
Internet: Theme: War and Peace
Available online at: http://lii.org/warandpeace/
Groups sites into: background and buildup, news and commentary and
other topics.
The War in Iraq: News &
Related Sources
Available online at: http://wally.rit.edu/internet/subject/wariniraq.htm#iraq
Rochester Institute of Technology resource has links to information
about Warblogs, the Aftermath, etc.
The War on Terrorism:
Saddam Hussein and Iraq
Available online at: http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/iraq.html
East Carolina University Joyner Library site has links to post-war Iraq
sources, debating war and the impact of sanctions.