Iraq War Debate -
2002/2007
Documents in the News Special
and
Political
Science 498
Dr. Raymond Tanter
GUIDANCE
FOR
CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Comprehensive Sites |
Books |
Periodical Indexes |
Full Text Periodicals
Humor |
News |
News Summaries |
Think Tanks
THREAT ASSESSMENTS
Ahmed Chalabi |
Chemical/Biological Warfare |
CIA Leak |
David Kay |
David Kelly Suicide
Duelfer Report |
Intelligence Problems |
Iraq Human Rights Abuse |
Iraq WMD Threat |
Niger Uranium
North Korea |
Suicide Bombers |
Tenet Resignation |
Terrorism
CONTAINMENT STRATEGIES
Comprehensive U.S. Policy |
Azores Summit |
Bush Administration |
Chirac
Economic Sanctions |
International Treaties |
Iraq Weapons Inspections - 2002
Iraq Weapons Inspections - 1998 |
Iraq Weapons Declaration |
Iraq's Position |
No Fly Zone
Oil-For-Food |
Regime Change |
Secy. Powell |
Security Council Inspection Resolution
War Authorization Debate (UN) |
War Declarations
Woodward's Plan of Attack
MILITARY ISSUES
Desert Fox |
Downing St. Memo |
Gulf
War |
Iran-Iraq War |
Military Assessments
War Powers - Bush/Congress |
War Preparations (Iraq) |
War Preparations (US)
WAR
Casualties |
Coalition |
Deck of Cards |
Embedding Journalists |
Homeland Security
Humanitarian Aid |
Hussein Brothers |
Iraqi Leadership |
Military Assessments |
Military Operations |
Oil
Prisoners of War |
War Authorization Debate (UN) |
War Crimes |
War Declaration |
Weblogs
PROJECTED POLITICAL AFTERMATH OF WAR
Articles |
Draft Constitution |
European Union |
Iraqi Interest Groups
Jay Garner |
John Negroponte
Regime Change |
United States Proposals
UNITED STATES OCCUPATION
Al-Zarqawi |
Articles |
Blackwater |
Civil War |
Coalition Provisional Authority |
Costs |
IRAQ STUDY GROUP |
Political Transfer of Power
Prisoner Abuse |
Protest Groups |
Reconstruction |
Rumsfeld |
Statistics |
Surge Strategy |
Terrorism
Troop Strength |
U.N. Involvement |
U.S. Agencies |
Victory Strategy |
Withdrawal Strategy |
Woodward Book
TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT
Iraqi Government |
President's Speech Series |
United Nations Role |
United States Role
PERMANENT GOVERNMENT
Election 2005 |
Officials
SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE
Capture |
Trial |
Execution
INTEREST GROUPS
Bin Laden |
Prominent Individuals |
Public Opinion |
War Opposition
PRIMARY PLAYERS
Coalition |
Iraq |
Middle East Countries |
Countries Outside Middle East
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Religious Composition |
United Nations |
United States
TERM PAPERS
Citation Guides |
Course Information |
HTML Guides |
Reference Tools
Research Guides |
Turabian
RELATED WEB PAGES
America's War Against Terrorism |
Middle East Conflicts
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Last updated on April 30,
2009
Books and Articles
- Government
Views on Iraq (CUNY)
- Extensive analysis of speeches and documents on the Iraq War issued
by
the federal government or United Nations
- Ranges from statements on the Bush doctrine to
debaathification
- War on
Terrorism: Saddam Hussein and Iraq (East Carolina
University)
- Covers news, government documents, human rights, military options,
weapons inspection, and the impact of sanctions
- Includes link to a companion page on post-Saddam Iraq
- Quality links and brief annotations
- Terrorism and
Proliferation (Ray Tanter)
- Course notes and readings on dealing with terrorists
- Competing political theories for combatting terrorism
- Aspects of the war with Iraq
- Includes excerpts from Dr. Tanter's Rogue
Regimes
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This webmaster gratefully thanks Dr. Raymond Tanter and
Mr. David Durant for their inspiration and well-chosen sources
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- Iraq--Foreign Relations
- Iraq War, 2003
- Korea (North)--Foreign Relations
- Persian Gulf War 1991
- Rational choice theory
- Russia--Foreign Relations--Iraq
- State-sponsored terrorism
- Weapons of mass destruction
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- International
Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
- Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western
European languages
- Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before
searching
- Sample search: Iraq near economic sanctions
- Searches may be recombined
- Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if
the
article is in English
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into
English but the abstract is in French
- PsycInfo (UMich
Only)
- Indexes articles in scholarly psychological journals since 1888
- Does not provide full text
- Access through MIRLYN-Web/Indexes
- Public
Affairs Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on
politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
- Government documents include United States, United Nations, League
of
Nations, and State Governments
- Good for very current concepts, like suicide bombers
- Sample Keyword Search: suicide w bomb?
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- Social
Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich Only)
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journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal
and year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author, the
citating author, and related items
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Citation
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then search tanter r*;
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article
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- Political science and complementary fields, including
international relations, law, and public
administration/policy
- Indexes foreign language journals and translates the title into
English
- Use the Thesaurus to identify subject descriptors
and related terms, particularly under
Rational Choice and Political Science
Theories
COMPREHENSIVE
SOURCES
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
- Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books,
conference proceedings,
and think tank working papers
- Full text primarily of working papers
- Good source for multiple deterrence options
- Search engine includes keywords as well as broad headings such as
Conflict Resolution
- JSTOR
(UMich
Only)
- Full text of major 20th Century historical and economic
periodicals
as well as the American Political Science
Review, American Journal of International Law, International
Organization, Journal of
Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
- Most periodicals available from 1900 to within the last five years
- Index approaches by keyword, author, title, periodical
- Printing and downloading requires Adobe Acrobat or JPRINT
- Keyword searching uses highly theoretical concepts;
e.g. deterrence or conflict
resolution [full text] in political science and middle east
journals lists only 6 articles
- ProQuest
(UMich Only)
- Indexes some 2500 journal articles in all fields since the 1980s
and
provides the full text of many since the late 1990s
- Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative
Politics,
Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of
Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
- Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
- Articles may be marked for downloading
- Text in HTML and image formats
- NOTE: this is a great source for current events, such as the
psychology of suicide bombers; limiting
articles of periodicals provides higher quality information
- SAMPLE SEARCH: suicide bomb? and periodicals
only
- Psych
Articles (UMich Only)
- Full text of 50 leading psychological journals published in the
United
States
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal, population group
INDIVIDUAL JOURNAL
TITLES
- American
Journal
of International Law, 1907+ (UMich Only)
- Articles on international legal disputes and human rights
- Articles on rules of warfare
- American Political
Science Review
- Congressional
Quarterly
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- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of
Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Foreign Affairs (Council on
Foreign
Relations)
- Summaries of articles in current issue and full text of lead
article
- Contents searchable by author, subject, and issue since 1988 but
full
text not provided
- The printed copy of the periodical is located in the
Graduate Library stacks (JX 1 .F78) with current issues in
Serials Services
- Issues for 1923-1995 available through PCI
Full Text (UMich Only) and 1986 to present in ProQuest
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- Foreign
Policy, 1994+ (UMich Only)
- Short articles on foreign policy issues; some anonymous
- International
Organization, 1997+ (UMich Only)
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- Issues for 1947-2004 available through Jstor
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- International
Studies
Quarterly, 1997+ (UMich Only)
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- Issues for 1967-2004 available through JSTOR
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- International
Security
1976-2003 (JSTOR)(UMich Only)
- Military and peace issues
- Journal
of
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- War and conflict management between nations
- Issues for 1957-2004 available through JSTOR
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of Peace Research, 1998+ (UMich Only)
- Mediation, conflict resolution, war, democratic peace
- Issues for 1967-2004 available through JSTOR
(UMich Only)
- Middle East Report
(1996+)
- Selected articles on countries in the Middle East and Central Asia
- Includes reports on Iraq
- Issues for 1988-2004 available through JSTOR
(UMich Only)
- Middle
East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
- Journal provides numerous articles on
Middle
East issues and current contents lists from other journals
- U.S. Middle East Policy Database provides
extensive annual summaries of U.S. foreign policy, 1980+
- Links to news, facts, and countries in the Middle East as well as
a
global calendar of events
- National
Journal (UMich Only)
- Extensive coverage of the Executive Branch and Presidency with
reference to
Congressional issues
- Index and full text of this weekly magazine since 1977
- Online
Middle East Assessment Reports (Center for Strategic and
International Studies)
- Short reports on demographic, economic and military trends within
various regions of the Middle East
- Full text in pdf format
- Political
Science Quarterly, 1996+ (UMich Only)
- Articles on a variety of U.S., foreign, and international relations
topics
- Issues for 1886-2002 available through JSTOR
(UMich Only)
- World
Politics
- World
Politics, 1948-95 (UMich Only)
- Political theory in international relationships
- Full text converted by the JSTOR project
- Searchable by author, title, and keyword
- Full text can be printed or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat or
tifflist
- World
Politics,
April 1996+ (UMich Only)
- Full text of periodical with search engine
- Part of University of Michigan networked subscription to Project
Muse
- BBC
Overview
- Description of U.S. position on Iraq
- Stories on European opinion and conflicting opinions between Middle
East countries and Iraqi Refugees
- Texts of pre-war documents
- Coverage of post-war controversy
- Electronic
Iraq
- News from an antiwar perspective
- Iraq
and the War on Terrorism (Washington Post)
- Questions and answers about a potential war with Iraq, including
who supports
the war, Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and its involvement in
9/11
- Answers include links to previous Post articles
- Showdown
Iraq (CNN)
- Sections on the Gulf War, weapons inspections, military plans, maps
showing support for war
- Page archived in 2003, but casuality lists still updated regularly.
- War Report
(Center for Defense Alternatives)
- Selected newspaper and journal articles analyzing the war
Foreign
News
Comprehensive
Lists
- Academic
Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
- Full text of newspapers from around the world in English
translation
for last several years
- Choose News/Guided News Search from main
screen
- Then choose World News and a region of the world;
you can click
on sources to determine what is covered for each region
- Sample Search
Asia and Pacific News
Iran w/10 Iraq and biological weapon!
1/1/98 to 2/28/98
- Foreign
Broadcast Information Service, 1975-96 (UMich
Only)
- Indexes foreign radio broadcasts and newswires translated into
English
- Approach by keyword, title, subject, and region
- Once the translations are identified, you can find the text in the
Serials/Microforms Room
- Guide
to FBIS
- Continued by the World News
Connection
INDEX CODE SERIES NAME FICHE # YEARS COVERED
Call Number #
AAP * Asia and the Pacific Micro-F X211 1974-87
AFR ** Africa (Sub-Sahara) Micro-F X212 1987-96
DT348.A24U529 current
EAS * East Asia Micro-F X211 1987-96
DS1.U59A39 current
EEU Eastern Europe Micro-F X209 1974-96
DR1.U58A239 current
LAT Latin America Micro-F X213 1974-96
MEA ** Middle East and Africa Micro-F X212 1974-87
NES ** Near East and South Asia Micro-F X212A 1987-96
DS41.D14 current
PRC China Micro-F X208 1974-96
DS701.U529 current
SOA *** South Asia Micro-F X215 1980-87
SOV *** Soviet Union Micro-F X210 1974-91
Central Eurasia Micro-F X210 1991-present
USR **** Central Eurasia Micro-F X210 1993-94
WEU Western Europe Micro-F X214 1974-96
______________________
* In 1987 AAP (Asia and Pacific) series became EAS (East Asia)
** In 1987, MEA (Middle East & Africa) dropped Mid East & became
AFR (Sub-Saharan Africa). South Asia added it, becoming
NES (Near East & South Asia).
*** In 1991, the Soviet Union Daily Report became the Central
Eurasian
Daily Report. The mnemonic remains SOV.
**** In 1991, the index began covering JPRS reports on Political
Affairs
of the CIS, citing them as the Central Eurasian Report (USR).
- Foreign
News Sources (Yahoo)
- Extensive list arranged by country
- International
Broadcasting
(VOA)
- Links to foreign broadcasting web sites
- International Network Information
Centers (University of Texas) [Web]
- Sections on Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and
Russia/Eastern Europe
- Considerable background information on individual countries
- Includes references to discussion and newsgroups
- Middle East Research
Institute Special Dispatch
- Selective translations of the Middle East news media on current
events, including the war with Iraq
- Series focused on major current events since 1998
- Ultimate News Links
- Lists 3,700 newspaper web sites from around the world
- Arranged by continent/country/state or province
- Includes foreign language newspapers
- World
News
Connection (UMich Only)
- Full text of foreign news broadcasts and press releases
translated
into English beginning November 1994
- Searchable by keyword, region and subject, or Boolean logic
and modified by date
- Available to University of Michigan IP addresses
- Continues the Foreign Broadcast
Information
Service
INDIVIDUAL
SOURCES
- Abu
Dhabi
- Current gulf news covered by the United Arab Emirates
- Al-Jazeera
(English Version)
- Television network to the Arab world from Qatar
- Al-Jazeera (Arabic); use
Tarjim to
translate to English
- Arab Net
- Overview, history, business, cultural, government, and tour
information for each Arab country
- Government information includes summaries of the national
structure,
foreign policy, education, health, and the military
- News in Arabic and links to related web sites
- Arabic Media Internet
Network
- Extensive links to on-line news media from Arab countries
- Texts in English or Arabic
- Arabic
Press
- Links to internet versions of Middle Eastern newspapers
- Arabic and English
- British Broadcasting
Corporation
- Text of news, culture, science, and children's programs, primarily
beginning 1996
- News screen only lists current programs; use the SEARCH key to
access
the archives
- Cairo Press
Review
- Daily headlines and editorials from Cairo newspapers translated
into
English
- Debkafile
- Dubbed the "Drudge Report of the Middle East"
- Anti-terrorism news
- Inside China Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information
- News service archived to December 1, 1996
- Iran
Weekly Press Digest
- Internal, economic, and foreign affairs news summary
- Current selected articles available without a subscription
- Iraq Net
- Current news stories in English from an American perspective
- Web logs
- Iraq-Report
- Weekly news summary about Iraqi politics since 1998
- Reporting appears to be objective
- Issued by Radio Free Europe, a U.S. government project
- Jerusalem
Post (Internet Edition)
- Full text of current edition
- Jordan Times
- Last week of political and economic news
- Covering the Iraq situation
- Russia Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information for Russia and CIS
countries
- News service archived to December 2, 1996
- Saudi Arabia Information
Service
- Daily news translated into English
- Archive includes Prince Saud's statements on terrorism and previous
expulsion
of Osama bin Laden
- Sky
News
- U.K. coverage of war featuring reporters in the field
- Turkish
Daily News
- News, opinions, and letters to the editor in English
- Coverage of Iraq and Palestinian situations
- Searchable archive from 1996
United
States
- Academic
Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
- Full text of newspapers from major U.S. cities and well as those
from around the world
- Choose Guided News Search from main
screen
- May choose General News/Major Papers (major world
newspapers, including
New York Times), U.S. News/Region (locally recognized
newspapers),
World News (international newspapers in English), or
News Transcripts/broadcaster (talking heads)
- Sample Search
General News/Major Papers
Iraq w/10 public opinion
8/1/2002 to 10/5/2002
- Cable News Network
(CNN)
- News stories on current political issues, often with the full-text
of relevant documents
- Recent material and election coverage archived in subject groups
- Summaries or full text of recent CNN political programs
- Christian Science
Monitor
- Daily newspaper with the full text of lead articles (U.S.,
international, cultural, crossword)
- Archive back to 1980 searchable by subject and available from
pulldown menu
- MSNBC
- Current news, weather, and sports
- Features real-time and multimedia presentations
- Use "Find" button in lefthand frames to search
archive
- Maximized for Microsoft Internet Explorer
- New York
Times
- Full text of today's New York Times and a searchable archive
- Initial registration required
- Registration currently free in the U.S. but organization reserves
the right to charge
- Washington Post
- Full text of current issue and searchable archive
- International section has news and web links to individual
countries
- Brookings
Institution
- Private, non-profit, independent institute analyzing U.S.
government
policy and international relations
- Summaries of position papers on "hot topics" and selected
Congressional testimony
- Table of contents for the Brookings Review
and selected articles
- Publications catalog and information about the organization
- Carnegie
Endowment for
International Peace
- Reports, working papers, and analyses of news articles on the
conflict
with Iraq
- Center for Defense
Information
- Arms Trade Data Base provides the text of
news articles on arms trade, arranged by country
- Weekly Defense Monitor includes position
papers
- U.S. military spending clock
- Eye on Iraq includes several policy
assessments
- Center for International and
Strategic Studies
- Organizations conducts numerous projects around the world
- Use search engine to identify policy papers on Iraq
- Center
for Public Integrity
- Its Iraq War Card, released in 2008 documents 935
false or misleading statements about Iraq in the two years following the
World Trade Center bombing
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
- Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books,
conference proceedings,
and think tank working papers
- Full text primarily of working papers
- Council on Foreign
Affairs
- Summaries of articles from its journal, Foreign
Affairs
- Confronting
Iraq
- Special issue of Foreign Affairs magazine devoted to
Iraq
- Five scholarly articles from 1990 and 2000-2002
- Articles analyze the Gulf War, Saddam's ability to survive, and a
call for war after failed
containment
- Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution, and Peace
- Description of programs, research, and archival holdings
- Text of press releases
- Search Iraq for the text of articles and
transcripts
- Rand Corporation
- Non-profit research organization
- "Research Areas" includes a subject
bibliography of RAND publications since 1985 with abstracts of the
reports and articles in the RAND Research
Review since 1994
- "Hot Topics" has the full-text of current policy papers
- Use search engine for reports and op-ed pieces on Iraq
- Saban Center
for
Middle East Policy
- Offshoot of the Brookings Institution
- Biweekly memoes and articles analyzing Iraqi and U.S.
policy
- Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute
- Promotes international disarmament
- Summaries of the SIPRI
Yearbook, beginning
1993, cover major armed conflicts, military spending, and disarmament
developments
- Describes SIPRI research areas, such as its Chemical and Biological
Disarmament program
- Its Iraq and Arms
Control is a summary of articles from the SIPRI Yearbook
on Iraq for
the past ten years
- United States Institute of
Peace
- Promotes the resolution of international conflict without violence
- Describes the organization's work, internships and grants
- Bibliography of free printed publications
- Its Iraq Web
Links primarily cover material through 1998 but include a
smattering
of Bush Administration documents
- Washington
Institute for
Near East Policy
- Leading think tank analyzing options for U.S. policy with the
Palestinian/Israel
Conflict and Iraq
- Numerous reports and working papers
- Its Publications page is browsable by subject; some
publications can be downloaded
- Its Peacewatch page has numerous working papers for
downloading
- Numerous articles on Iraq are linked from Professor Ray
Tanter's Course
Syllabus
THREAT ASSESSMENTS
- Chemical
and Biological Warfare (University of Bradford)
- Full text of Fourth Review Conference Documents (1996) and historic
treaties
- Link to "Review Conferences Page" provides working papers, conference papers, and briefs
- Also provides excellent links to web sites on chemical and biological weapons
disarmament
- Combatting
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Congressional Commission
Report
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/pdf/deutch.pdf]
- Outlines potential dangers from weapons by other countries,
including
old Russian stockpiles and Iraq's anthrax
- Recommends changes in U.S. policy
- Deutch report, 1999
- Harvard-Sussex on CBW Armament
and Arms Limitation [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/hsp/]
- Text and signatories of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, 1972
Biological Weapons Convention, and 1925 Geneva Protocol
- Publications catalog of the program
- Monterey
Institute
Chemical and Biological Weapons Resource Page
- Numerous articles and fact sheets on chemical and biological
weapons
- A chart of countries which own them
- Timelines on the use of chemical and biological weapons
- Assessments of weapons in the Middle East by country
- Consider current data on terrorism
- Ahmed Chalabi
- Commission
on
the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of
Mass Destruction
- Believes miscalculation on Iraq's WMD due to biased intelligence
analysis, lack of information sharing, and absence of strong leadership
- Known as the Robb-Silberman Report
- Presented to President Bush on the March 31, 2005
- Comprehensive
Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD
(CIA)
- Concludes that Iraq had no secret cache of Weapons of Mass
Destruction
- Saddam's capacity to create them weakened after 1991
- Written by Charles Duelfer of the Iraq Survey Group
- Available in HTML and PDF formats
- Originally osted to the web on October 6, 2004 but
too large to be usable until December 2004
- Summary
(readable)
- Prepared
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Oct. 26,
2004
- University of Michigan Copy of
Duelfer Report
- David Kay
- Interim
Report
- Interim progress report by the Iraq Survey Group
- Excerpted testimony in closed hearings held by House and Senate
Intelligence Committees on October 2, 2003
- No WMD found in Iraq though some evidence of dual facilities
- Iraqi scientists have provided no useful information
- Another copy
- Iraq
Arms Inspector Casts Doubt on WMD Claims
- Tape of National Public Radio Interview aired on January 25, 2004
- David Kay resigned from WMD hunt
- No war-ready WMD found although there may have been some movement
of
weapons to Syria
- Audio for Real Player or Windows Media Player
- For transcript, University of Michigan affiliates should use
Academic
Universe; Guided News Search/News Transcripts/NPR; then
search for Kay and Iraq in headline on Jan. 25, 2004
- His testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan.
28,
2004 is only available electronically through C-Span using RealPlayer
- Committee
Established to Review Intelligence on WMD (GtBrit)
- Statement by British foreign minister Jack Straw to Parliament on
February 3, 2004
- Outlines mission, timetable, and members of commission to review
Iraq's WMD intelligence
- Review of
Intelligence on on Weapons of Mass Destruction (Butler
Report)
- Available through the BBC
- Report says MI6 did not check its sources well and a
45-minute strike at Britain was an unfounded claim
- Released July 2004
- Executive
Order Creating Intelligence Commission
- Order by President Bush on February 6, 2004
- Intelligence Commission on WMD to report on March 31, 2005
- Co-chairs are Senator Chuck Robb and Judge Laurence Silberman
- Additional members: Senator John McCain; Lloyd Cutler, former
White
House Counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton; Rick Levin, the
President
of Yale University; Admiral Bill Studeman, the former Deputy Director
of
the Central Intelligence Agency; Judge Pat Wald, a former judge on the
D.C. Court of Appeals
- Levin
Says
Newly Declassified Information Indicates Bush Administration's Use of
Pre-War Intelligence Was Misleading
- Press release from Senator Carl Levin on November 6, 2005
- Indicates discrepancy between Administration's WMD claims,
Hussein/al-Qaeda
relationship, and Hussein religious ties and statements given by the
Defense Intelligence Agency
- Postwar
Findings about Iraq's WMD Program and Links to Terrorism and How They
Compare with PreWar Assessments
- Report evaluates CIA prewar assessments of Iraq's WMD capability and
its links to terrorism
- Released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 8,
2006
- Report on
the
U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments of
Iraq
- Report faults CIA for group think in assuming Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction
- Released July 2004
- Full report is 524 pages in pdf format
- Tenet
Address on WMD Intelligence
- Speech by CIA Director George Tenet on February 5, 2004
- Defends CIA's pre-war intelligence on Iraq's WMD
- Tenet Resignation
- The
Unknown:
CIA and the Pentagon Take Another Look at Iraq and
Al-Qaeda
- Article by Jeffrey Goldberg appearing in the New Yorker on Feb. 3,
2003
- Use
by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi
National Congress
- Explores role of Ahmed Chalabi and inaccurate information supplied
by anti-Saddam forces
- Released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 8,
2006
- Comprehensive
Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on
Iraq's WMD (CIA)
- Concludes that Iraq had no secret cache of Weapons of Mass
Destruction
- Saddam's capacity to create them weakened after 1991
- Written by Charles Duelfer of the Iraq Survey Group
- Posted to the web on October 6,
2004 but
too large to be usable
- Summary
(readable)
- Prepared
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Oct. 26,
2004
- University of Michigan Copy of
Duelfer Report
- Congressional
Hearings in Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
- Search CIS Index, 1970+ by subject to identify
numerous hearings on the
U.S. assessment of Iraq
- Selected testimony available on line; full text in Documents Center
in paper and/or microfiche
- Non-UMich readers should go directly to the key committee web
sites:
- Defense
Intelligence Agency Report (CNN)
- Excerpts of one-page unclassified summary of classified DIA report
issued September 2002
- Report finds no specific locations for chemical or biological
weapons
in Iraq but says Iraq could have biological material ready to weaponize
- Released on June 6, 2003
- International Institute of Strategic
Studies
- British think tank
- Report issued on September 9 reviewing Iraq's WMD program since the
UN
inspectors left in 1998
- Concludes that Iraq could make nuclear weapons if had foreign
assistance
- Report not on web site and must be purchased
- However, web site links to considerable newspaper coverage
- Iraq
and Arms
Control (SIPRI)
- Assessment of weapons inspections and WMD in Iraq is a summary of
articles from the SIPRI Yearbook on Iraq for
the past ten years
- Iraqgate:
Saddam
Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War,
1980-1994 (UMich Only)
- About 1900 declassified government documents on the Banca Nazionale
del Lavoro scandal, the secret arming of
Saddam Hussein's army, and Iraqi economics
- Full text searchable by subject, date, and type of material
- Iraqi
Special Weapons Guide (Global Security)
- Extensive descriptions of Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear
weapons programs
- List of suspected chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites
in Iraq, including
geographic coordinates
- Iraqi intelligence and deception activities
- Links to United Nations resolutions and weapons inspection
reports
- Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destruction (CIA)
- Concludes that Iraq had reconstituted chemical and biological
weapons facilities
- Iraq is one to five years away from having nuclear capability
- Lists previous UN Security Council Resolutions and Iraq's actions
- Lists chemical agents and previous use on Iranians and Kurds
- Maps of chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic facilities
- Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessment by the British
Government
- Fifty-five page report (pdf) presented by Prime Minister Tony Blair
on
September 24, 2002
- Claims Iraq can launch WPM within 45 minutes of Saddam Hussein's
order
- David
Kelly Suicide (BBC)
- Claimed to Parliament on July 15, 2003 that British report on
Iraq's
WMD had been
"sexed up"
- Committed suicide on July 17, 2003
- Article includes his testimony
to the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, links to
the
committee's previous report on the investigation, a family statement,
and
a biography of Kelly
- The Hutton
Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of
Dr.
David Kelly
- Results of investigation by Lord Hutton
- Concludes David Kelly was solely responsible for his own suicide
- Text of correspondence, transcripts of telephone messages, and
discussion of BBC role
- Niger Uranium
- State of the Union
Message
- President Bush's message to Congress on January 28, 2003
- Use "find" key and the keyword "uranium" to find the passage on
Hussein's attempt to buy uranium from Africa
- CIA
Mea Culpa
- Press release by George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence, on
July 11, 2003
- Takes blame for approving statement of Iraq's uranium purchase bid
appearing in the State of the Union message
- Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessment by the British
Government
- Fifty-five page report (pdf)
- Source for claim that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from
Niger
- Fake
Iraq Documents 'Embarrassing' to U.S. (CNN)
- News story published on March 14, 2003
- Outlines reasons by the International Atomic Energy Agency
determined
the Iraqi documents showing a purchase agreement of uranium from Niger
were forged
- CIA Leak Investigation
- Fmr.
Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV
- Investigated Niger uranium claim in 2002 for the State Department
and
believed
it unlikely
- His Op-Ed article appeared in the New York Times,
Sunday, July 6, 2003, Section 4, p. 9, Column 1
- Title: What I Didn't Find in Africa
- University of Michigan users should access Academic
Universe
- Search for New York Times under Sources; then limit author
to
Wilson and date to 7/6/03
- Office of the
Special Counsel
- Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald investigated who leaked
the name of Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson's wife, as a CIA
operative to the press
- Indicted Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, for
obstruction of justice on
October 28, 2005
- Web site has indictment, legal proceedings, and trial exhibits
- CNN
Special Report on CIA Leak
- Robert Novak Editorial appeared in the
Chicago Sun-Times on July 14, 2003, p. 31 and is
available in LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic (UMich Only) under Guided News
Search/General News/Major Papers with Novak as author and Plame
in full text
- Libby
Statement to Grand Jury
- Statement released on April 5, 2006 suggests President Bush
directly
authorized release of previously-secret national security
estimates
- National Intelligence Estimate Excerpts
- Eight pages of the 90-page document were released by the White
House
on July 18, 2003
- Text
via the Federation of American Scientists
- Articles concerning the documents
- CNN
- President Bush's Case for Iraqi Invasion
- President's
Speech before the United Nations
- Speech outlining case and asking for UN support
- Dated September 12, 2002
- Decade
of Deception and Defiance
- Report to the United Nations outlining the threat posed by Saddam
Hussein
- Includes weapons of mass destruction, support of international
terrorism, repression of Iraqi people, refusal to obey UN sanctions
- Available in HTML and pdf
- Another
Copy
- President
Bush's Address to the Nation
- Address made in Cincinnati on October 7, 2002
- Outlines reasons for pursuing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
and
the war powers resolution before Congress
- Another copy
- National Security Strategy
Document - 2002
- Chapters on championing human dignity, defeating terrorism,
preventing
threats from weapons of mass destruction, encouraging free markets and
open societies, and transforming national security institutions
- Greatest danger is the intersection of radicalism with technology
- Calls for pre-emptive strikes
- Dated
September 17 and released September 20,
2002
- Another copy
- National
Security Strategy 2006
- Senate Foreign Relations
Hearing
- Hearings to Examine Threats, Responses, and Regional
Considerations
Surrounding Iraq
a post-Saddam Iraq
- Text version (downloaded from GPO web site) includes prepared
statements
and full text of testimony
- PDF Version (4.2
MB)
- Amnesty
International Reports on Iraq
- Reports on human rights abuses in Iraq from 1998 to the present
- Iraq:
Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2001 (State
Dept)
- Annual report on human rights violations with examples and
statistics
- Includes state murder, exile, women's rights, freedom of
religion
- Iraq
Ministry
of Foreign
Affairs
No longer active. Link maintained
for historical context.
- Saddam's statements on United Nations sanctions and U.S. aggression
- Outlines United States war crimes
- Discussion of human rights situation in Iraq
- Archived
web page from July 18, 2002
- Saddam Hussein:
Crimes and Human Rights Abuses (British Foreign
Office)
- Twelve-page pamphlet outlining alleged abuses of women, prisoners,
Kurds, Shia Community, Kuwait, and citizens
- Released on December 2, 2002
- State Department
Announcement
- Announcement by State Department Representative Richard Boucher of
October 16, 2002
- North Korea admitted it had violate 1994 nuclear ban
- Agreed
Framework (FAS)
- Text of Geneva agreement between the U.S. and North Korea limiting
nuclear development
- Dated October 21, 1994
- Academic
Universe (UMich)
- Best source for current assessments of the comparative threat of
Iraq
and North Korea
- Use Advanced News Search
- Access General News or News Transcripts
- iraq w/s north korea w/s threat and date after
10-16-2002
- Foreign
Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United
States
through 2015 (CIA)
- CIA report from 1999 outlining the possible threats from Iran,
Iraq,
North Korea, Russia and China
- International
Atomic Energy Agency
- Archived information on IAEA activities in Iraq (no new content since June 29, 2007)
- Links to archived UN documents and think tank web sites
- North
Korea Special Weapons Guide (FAS)
- Comprehensive guide to North Korean nuclear, chemical and
biological
weapons
- Explanation and organization of its defense and intelligence
capabilities
- Details of the 1994 agreement and contemporary articles
- Updated assessments
- Political
Information
- Index to political web sites, including parties, research
organizations, lobbyists, and government
- Search: iraq and north korea and threat
- Numerous links predating 2002
- ProQuest
(UMich Only)
- Indexes some 2500 journal articles in all fields since the 1980s
and
provides the full text of many since the late 1990s
- Best source for information on suicide bombers
- Rational
Fanatics, by Ehud Sprinzak (UMich Only)
- See Foreign Policy, September/October 2000
- Sociology
and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?
(CRS)
- Congressional Research Service report issued in September 1999
analyzing the characteristics of terrorists
- Includes overall psychology and an analysis of previous terrorists
- Widely discussed in mid-May 2002 for predicting the possibility of
hijacking planes to hit the Pentagon, etc.
- Another
Copy (HTML)
- Terrorism and
Proliferation: PS498 (Tanter)
- Course notes describe motivation behind suicide terrorism
- Links to articles
MILITARY BACKGROUND
- CNN
Special
- On-going coverage, including biographies, timelines, description
of
weapons, background on biological and chemical weapons
- Crisis
in Iraq (State Department)
- Description of weapons of mass destruction
- Links to human rights reports, travel advisories
- Operation
Desert Fox (U.S. Defense Dept)
- Brief chronology of Desert Fox, December 1998 - January 1999
- Press releases and Defense Department briefings on the
operation
- President
Clinton's Address of the Nation
- Address announcing missile attack on Iraq
- Given at 6 p.m., December 16, 1998
- President's
Statement Ending Operation Desert Fox
- Statement made at 6p.m. on December 19
- UNSCOM
- Reports of UN inspection team in Iraq
- As of December 16, does not include Richard Butler's December 15th
report citing non-cooperation
- Washington
Post Coverage
- U.S. military equipment and bombing targets
- Description of Richard Butler's December 15th report describing
Iraq's non-cooperation
- Russian
President
(December 17, 1998)
- Saddam
Hussein's Address of the Nation (December 17, 1998)
- US Reaction
- Desert
Storm
- Superb web site by Scott O'Hara
- Chronology of the war and troop/equipment contributions by country
- Names of casualties, POWs and MIAs by state
- "Missing" documents describing the Gulf War Syndrome
- Gulflink
- Official Defense Department site on Gulf War illnesses
- Describes chemical weapons used and has some declassified
documents
- Maps of
the Gulf War (PBS)
- Maps of various troop positions during the war
- Estimated
Costs of a Potential War with Iraq (CBO)
- Congressional Budget Office report released on September 30, 2002
- Estimates a monthly cost of $6-$9 billion per month for a war with
Iraq
- Provides troop assumptions
- First
Strike Guidelines:
The Case of Iraq (Project on Defense Alternatives)
- Detailed analysis by Charles Wright on the pre-emptive strike
guidelines written by
Barry Schneider in his 1995 paper Radical Responses to Radical
Regimes
- Extensive footnotes and links to related articles
- Iraq:
Former
and Recent Military Confrontations with the United States
(CRS)
- Short history of confrontations, primarily over the no-fly zone
since the Gulf War
- Military forces in middle eastern countries
- Written in September 2002
- Iraqi
Special Weapons Guide (Global Security)
- Extensive descriptions of Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear
weapons programs
- List of suspected chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites
in Iraq, including
geographic coordinates
- Iraqi intelligence and deception activities
- Links to United Nations resolutions and weapons inspection
reports
- SIPRI
Yearbook [Web and Library]
- Lengthy annual summaries of international military affairs,
conflicts, and disarments
- Includes statistics and signatories to major treaties
- Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- See also its Iraq and Arms
Control for a special report on weapons inspections and
WMD for the past ten years
- Strategic
Intelligence (Loyola)
- Links to U.S. intelligence and military intelligence web pages as
well as selected web pages of foreign countries
- Selected declassified documents and journal articles from Covert
Action Quarterly
- Target
Iraq
(Global Security)
- History of U.S. relations with Iraq
- Concise explanations of U.S. military power, order of battle, and
military options
- Iraqi military strength
- Previous wars with Iraq
- Extensive links to key U.S. documents and to the anti-war
movement
- UN Peace-Keeping
Operations
- World map identifies current and completed peacekeeping missions
since 1948
- Data for each mission includes a description, dates, military
strength, and the name of the primary military observer
- Separate sections of the web site include fatalities by type and
mission, numbers of peacekeeping forces contributed by country,
lessons
learned from past missions, and the most current annual report
- World
Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (ACDA)
- Military expenditures, armed forces, GNP, and population for 172
countries, 1984-
- Arms transfers by supplier and recipient
- Summary of world military forces and arms transfers for various
years, 1961 to present
- United States policy on arms control and export
- Issues for 1996-1998 available at the
State
Department Web Archives
- Congressional
Resolution - 2002
- Daschle
Hopes to Limit Iraq Resolution (CNN)
- Senate Majority Tom Daschle wants to limit war powers to
eliminating Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Believes broader resolution sets a precedent for other countries
- Article also describes Ted Kennedy's views
- Based on interviews conducted October 6, 2002
- H.J.R.
114 - BILL PASSED BY
CONGRESS
- Bill agreement between Dennis Hastert, Dick Gephardt, and President
Bush
- S. J. Res
45
- Resolution authorizing the President's use of force in Iraq
- Introduced by Tom Daschle and Trent Lott on September 26, 2002
- S. J. Res.
46
- Senate Debate
- Congressional
Record (Oct. 4, 2002, pp. 9933-9938)
- Congressional
Record (Oct. 7, 2002, pp. S60006-S60031)
- Congressional
Record (Oct. 8, 2002, pp. S60007-S60107)
- Congressional
Record (Oct. 9, 2002, pp. S60145-S60217)
- Congressional
Record (Oct. 10, 2002, pp. S60233-60272)
- Congressional
Record (Oct. 10, 2002, p. 60342)
- Senate
Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
- Vote conducted on October 11, 2002, 77-23
- Arranged by Senator, yea or nay, and state
- House Debate
- Iraq
Liberation Act - 1998
- Provides up to $97 Million in funding to support a transition
government in Iraq
- H.R. 4655, Public Law 105-338 (signed Oct. 31, 1998)
- Laws Covering War Declaration
- Presidential Balance of
Power
- Power
Shift to President May Stick
- Brief history of the balance of power between the Executive and
Legislative
Branch since President Nixon
- Christian Science Monitor article of October 3, 2002
- Proquest
(UMich Only)
- Proquest's Research Library indexes articles
appearing in
Presidential Studies Quarterly since 1994 and provides
the full text
- Journal is primarily focused on presidential-legislative
relations
- Hussein
Interview with Dan Rather (CBS)
- Full text and video excerpts of one hour interview aired on
February
26, 2003
- Hussein claims Iraq will fight, will not accept exile, will not
torch
Iraq's infrastructure
- Challenges President Bush to a satellite debate
- Iraq
Ordered Nerve Gas Antidote (CNN)
- Report that Iraq has attempted to buy massive doses of atropine and
obidoxime chloride from Turkey
- Story dated November 13, 2002
- Saddam's
Deadly Subway Scheming
- 60 Minutes interview with Hussein Shahristani aired
on
February 23, 2003
- Saddam has subway tunnels under Baghdad
- Can be used for a chemical warfare ring around the city or for
Saddam's escape in case of a nuclear attack
- Downing
Street Memo (London Times)
- Secret British memo dated July 23, 2002
- Assumes President Bush had already decided to go to war with Iraq
- Printed in the Sunday Times of London on May 1, 2005
- See the Downing Street
Memo web site for elated documents
- War
Plan for Iraq is Ready, Officials Say (Washington
Post)
- War plan includes severe bombing on outskirts followed by quick
invasion and psychological warfare
- Aim is to foster internal rebellion against Hussein
- Article by Thomas Ricks appears on p. 1 of Washington Post,
November
10, 2002
CONTAINMENT STRATEGIES
- National Security Strategy
Document
- Chapters on championing human dignity, defeating terrorism,
preventing
threats from weapons of mass destruction, encouraging free markets and
open societies, and transforming national security institutions
- Greatest danger is the intersection of radicalism with technology
- Calls for pre-emptive strikes
- Dated
September 17 and released September 20,
2002
- Another
Copy
- National
Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Bush policy includes interdiction, aggressive pursuit of an
international nonproliferation policy, and dealing with the
consequences
of an attack
- Pamphlet released in pdf format on December 11, 2002
- The classified version of this report is known as National Security
Presidential Directive 17 (NSPD 17) and Homeland Security Presidential
Directive 4, signed May 2002
- The complete report is described in an article by Mike Allen and
Barton Gellman in the Washington
Post on Dec. 11, 2002, p. A1
- United Nations Security Council Instructions
- S/Res.687 (1991)
- Establishes use of economic sanctions against Iraq
- Goods Review List
- Prohibited goods for import into Iraq
- Revised May 2002
- Iraq Mission to
UNESCO
- Effects of sanctions on Iraq's health and education
- Pictures and statistics
- Iraq
Sanctions: Humanitarian Implications and Options for the Future
(Global Policy)
- Paper written by several NGOs and Christian organizations on the
effect of
economic sanctions
- Describes the origin of the sanctions in the Iraq-Iran and Gulf
Wars
- Oil-for-food and smart sanctions policies
- Concludes that sanctions hurt individual civilians
- Oil-for-Food
Programme (UN)
Facts and resolutions permitting Iraq to import food for its oil
exports
- Sanctions
(American Friends Service Committee)
- Series of articles describing the health effects of various
sanctions
- United
Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection
Commission (UNMOVIC)
- United Nations
Special Commission (UNSCOM)
- Mandate and membership
- General Assembly and Security Council resolutions relating to
UNSCOM
- Various reports on weapons inspection
- Latest semi-annual report
- Replaced by UNMOVIC
- International
Atomic Energy Agency
- Responsible for the nuclear component in the Iraqi weapons
inspections
- Results of the October meeting in Vienna for renewed inspections
- Previous inspection activities
- Report
to the Security Council by Mohammed ElBaradei
- Report dated March 7, 2003
- No evidence of aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons
- Iraq's industrial capacity weakened
- Iraq's Response
- Hussein
Interview with Dan Rather (CBS)
- Full text and video excerpts of one hour interview aired on
February
26, 2003
- Hussein claims Iraq will fight, will not accept exile, will not
torch
Iraq's infrastructure
- Challenges President Bush to a satellite debate
- Hussein
Interview with Tony Benn (CNN)
- Transcript of Saddam Hussein's interview with peace activist and
former parliamentary member Tony Benn
- Denies links to Al Qaeda or weapons of mass destruction
- Aired on British television, February 4, 2003
- Iraq
Info No longer active. Link
maintained
for historical context.
- Mission to the United
Nations No longer active.
Link
maintained
for historical context.
- Speeches and press releases by Saddam Hussein and UN Ambassador
- Letters regarding weapons inspections
- Statistics on the effect of sanctions
- Web site requires a high level browser
- Saddam
Defiant on Missiles (CBS)
- Description of Dan Rather's interview with Saddam Hussein
- Refuses to destroy al-Samoud missiles and challenges President Bush
to
a debate
- Full interviewed aired on February 26, 2003
- Saddam's
Letter to the General Assembly No
longer active. Link maintained
for historical context.
- Naji Sabri read letter of Saddam Hussein to UN General Assembly on
September 19, 2002
- States that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and
President Bush simply wants Iraqi oil
- Full text not available from UN web site free but issued as UN
Document A/57/PV. 16
- Ten
Concessions
- Ten concessions made by UNMOVIC and Iraq about the inspection
process
- Includes admissions of Iraqi cooperation and Iraqi promises of
further
cooperation, including national legislation and encouraging scientists
to
meet with inspectors
- Made on January 20, 2003
- Iraq Weapons
Declaration
- Iraq
Weapons Declaration (CNN)
- Table of contents for the 12,000 page report translated into
English
- Report submitted to UNMOVIC on December 7
- Hans
Blix' Notes
- Notes for Security Council briefing on December 19, 2002 by UN
Chief
Weapons Inspector Hans Blix
- Bush Administration's Case for Iraqi
Invasion
- President's
Speech before the United Nations
- Speech outlining case and asking for UN support
- Dated September 12, 2002
- President's
Press Conference on Iraq (March 7, 2003)
- Outlined current intelligence that Saddam is not complying with
disarmament resolution
- Will call for UN resolution on Iraq even if resolution fails
- Appartus
of Lies (White House)
- Saddam's use of tragedy, suffering, Islam, and historical
revisionism
to promote deception per the White House
- Decade
of Deception and Defiance
- Report to the United Nations outlining the threat posed by Saddam
Hussein
- Includes weapons of mass destruction, support of international
terrorism, repression of Iraqi people, refusal to obey UN sanctions
- Available in HTML and pdf
- Another
Copy
- Secretary of State Powell
- Secretary Powell's Presentation to the UN
Security Council
- Iraq: Still
Failing to Disarm
- Speech made to the Center for Strategic and International Studies
on
March 5, 2003
- State
Department Press Releases
- Press releases by Colin Powell beginning in 2002 on Iraq situation
- Includes comments made at World Economic Forum and statement after
the
Hans Blix report
- State
of the Union Address - 2003
- Speech delivered by President Bush to Congress and the nation on
January 28, 2003
- Outlines the weapons Iraq has not destroyed and their possible
impact
on terrorism
- Proposed tax cuts, Medicare reform, AIDS assistance, energy
reduction
programs, mentoring for children of prisoners
- What
Does Disarmament Look Like? (pdf)
- White House release of January 2003
- Cites examples of successful disarmament programs and clues of
Iraqi
non-cooperation
- Why
We Know Iraq is Lying
- New York Times Op Ed piece by Condoleeza Rice, published on January
23, 2003
- Security Council
Resolution (S/RES/1441)
- Inspection
Resolution
- Resolution negotiated by United States to inspect Iraq
- Calls for immediate, unimpeded, unconditional, and
unrestricted access
- RECALLS, in that context, that the council has
repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious
consequences as a result of its continued
violations
of its obligations
- Passed unanimously by the Security Council on November 8, 2002
- UN
Version of S. 1441
- Second Resolution Authorizing
War
- U.S./U.K./Spanish
Resolution
- Claims Saddam has failed to meet obligations
- Considered go-ahead for immediate war
- Circulated on Feb. 24, 2003
- British
Resolution Extending Time to March 17
- Gives Iraq until March 17, 2003 for full compliance
- Must yield completely to UNMOVIC and IAEA
- Six Tests
(UK)
- Draft amendment to UN resolution submitted by Tony Blair and Jack
Straw on March 12, 2003
- Proposes six disarmament tests that Iraq must meet to avoid
war
- Jacques Chirac (French
President)
- Chirac
Makes His Case on Iraq
- Christiane Amanpour's interview with French President on reasons
for
opposing resolution authorizing force
- Aired on 60 Minutes on March 16, 2003
- Paris:
We May Help in Chemical War (CNN)
- Article posted by CNN on March 18, 2003
- According to French ambassador, Saddam's use of chemical or
biological
weapons would change French position on war
- French/German/Russian
Memo
- Calls for war as last resort
- Circulated on Feb. 24, 2003
- Azores
Summit Press Conference
- Summit between Spain, Britain, and U.S. held on March 16, 2003
- Transcript of President Bush's statements on Iraq and calling March
17
the world's "Moment of Truth"
- Statements by President Aznar on the Atlantic alliance and Prime
Minister Blair on Iraq
- Questions and answers
- Clear indication that war with Iraq likely the week of March
17
- Woodward's Plan of
Attack
- Sixty
Minutes Interview (CBS)
- Extensive experts and videos of CBS interview with Washington Post
reporter Bob Woodward on April 18, 2004
- His book, Plan of Attack, says the Bush
Administration
began planning for the Iraq War shortly after 9/11/2001
- Cheney's idea, Bush's Christian mission, Colin Powell not told,
deal
with Saudi Arabia to reduce gas prices in Fall 2004
- Rumsfeld
Interview with Woodward
- Redacted transcript of Secy. of Defense Rumsfeld's interview with
Bob
Woodward on October 23, 2003
- Released on April 19, 2004 to modify claims in Woodward book
- Another copy
- News Coverage
- Iraq
- Ba'th
Arab Socialist Party
- Speech by Saddam Hussein on Arab Unity in September 1997
- Iraq's
Army Organization (CNN)
- Description of army organization, forces, and equipment
- U.S. and British military assets in the region
- Data from Jane's World Armies
- Mission to the United
Nations No longer active. Link
maintained
for historical context.
- Speeches and press releases by Saddam Hussein and UN Ambassador
- Letters regarding weapons inspections
- Statistics on the effect of sanctions
- Web site requires a high level browser
- United
Nations
- Diplomatic Agreement
- Memorandum
of
Understanding
- Memorandum of understanding between the United Nations and Iraq on
weapons inspection dated February 23, 1998
- Press
Conference (Annan/Aziz)
- Unofficial transcript of press conference with UN Secretary
General
Kofi Annan and Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz on
Memorandum of Understanding
- Press conference on February 23, 1998
- Secretary General
- Secretary
General's Mission to Iraq
- Includes items in this section and additional news
- Security
Council Resolution 1154
- Resolution affirms Secretary General's Memorandum of Understanding
- Promises severest consequences if Saddam Hussein does not comply
with
inspection agreement
- Passed on March 2, 1998
- UN
News Story
- Press release dated February 22, 1998 about diplomatic agreement
between Kofi Annan and Saddam Hussein on weapons
inspection
- Security Council
- United Nations Web
Site
- For additional coverage
- Search as iraq weapons inspection and
specify the field as all words
- United Nations
Special Commission
- Mandate and membership
- General Assembly and Security Council resolutions relating to
UNSCOM
- Various reports on weapons inspection
- Latest semi-annual report
- United States
- Congressional
Research Service
- April 1998 report on current Iraqi chemical and biological weapons
capability
- Includes intelligence reports and discrepancies of
information
- State
Department Press Briefing
- Press briefing by James Rubin on October 29 about the seriousness
of the situation
- United States Military
Plans - February 1998
- CNN
Coverage of Town Meeting
- Officials explain Iraq policy at Ohio State University on February
18
- Audio coverage of questions and answers
- News story and reaction
- Congressional Bills
- H.R. 3208 (Paul) against using Defense Department
appropriations for attack
- H.Con.Res. 226 (Bartlett) prohibits attack unless
authorized by law
- S.Con.Res. 71 (Lott) condemns Iraq for
threatening
peace
- H.Res. 322 (Lantos) expresses sense of Congress
that
U.S. should act
- S.Con.Res. 76 (Murkowski) enforces embargo
- S. Res. 179 (Specter) condemns Saddam Hussein as
a
war criminal
- Iraq
Liberation Act
- Provides up to $97 Million in funding to support a transition
government in Iraq
- H.R. 4655, Public Law 105-338 (signed Oct. 31, 1998)
- Search THOMAS
for the text, summary, and status of these bills as well as links to
speeches in the Congressional Record
- Washington
Post/ABC Poll
- Poll taken February 17-18, 1998
- Public support for military options given various
conditions
- United States Military Plans -
November 1998
- Arms
Control Treaties and Agreements (ACDA/State Dept.)
[http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/bureau_ac/treaties_ac.html]
- Full text of 40 historic arms control agreements
- Biological, environmental, nuclear, and space
- International Laws
and Treaties
(House of Representatives/Pritchard) [Web]
- Links to major historical and current international treaties,
including those on the UN and League of nations, trade, human rights,
the environment and peace treaties following major wars
- Major
International Instruments on Disarmament (UNCD)
[http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/warfare.htm]
- Full text of international treaties on conventionalm, nuclear,
biological and chemical weapons since 1925
- Multilateral
Treaties (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) [Web]
- Historical and current international conventions on arms control,
environment, human rights
and trade
- Approach by topic or date with keyword index
- United
Nations Treaty Data
Base (UMich Only)
- Subject approach to international treaties deposited with the
United
Nations and League of Nations
- Searchable by subject, parties, type of agreement, date signed
- Text viewable page by page
- Alternatiff plug-in permits one to view the entire treaty at the
same
time
- The full texts of the treaties are also located in the
printed United
Nations Treaty Series (JX 170 .U54 with current in the
Documents Center)
WAR
- Australian Ministry
of
Defense
- Numbers of troops deployed in Operation Falconer
- British
Ministry of Defense
- Extensive news coverage and photographs of Operation
Telic
- Felony
Waivers by Type of Offense
- Felony waivers given for army, navy, airforce and marine recruitment
in FY 2006 and 2007 by type of felony (e.g. burglary)
- Another copy
- United States Central
Command
- Transcripts of daily press briefings on the war
- Reports of special investigations
- Links to military magazines and various news sources
- Iraq
- Web Sites Down
- Official Iraqi government web sites beginning with
http://www.uruklink.net/ are down as of March 26, 2003
- The Iraqi Mission to the United Nations is also
unavailable as of March 26, 2003
- Alternative news sources with a Middle East perspective
- Saddam Urges
Jihad
- Text of statement urging Iraqis to fight the Americans and commit
suicide if necessary
- Message allegedly written by Saddam and delivered by the
Information
Minister on April 1, 2003
- News Coverage
- America at
War (CBS)
- Current news and war photos
- Conflict in
Iraq (Washington Post)
- Current news coverage and pictures
- Analysis of strategies
- Target:
Iraq (MSNBC)
- Current news coverage
- Military assessments
- War
in Iraq (BBC)
- War and interviews from British reports
- More emphasis on effect of war in Iraq and Middle East
- War
on Iraq (CNN)
- Instant and archived news bulletins on the war
- Assessments of Iraqi and coaltion military force
- Maps and special reports
- Sky
News
- U.K. coverage of war featuring reporters in the field
- COALITION
- Non-US Troop
Presence and Casualties in Iraq (UMich)
- Graphic showing number of troops and percentage casualties of
coalition partners as of November 30, 2005
- Includes separate list of countries which are no longer providing
troops
- By Jana von Stein, Political Science Department, University of
Michigan
- U.S.
and Coalition Casualties (CNN)
- Picture, name, age, unit, hometown, and circumstances of
death
- UNITED STATES
- U.S.
Casualties in Iraq
- Numbers and graphs of wounded and dead in Iraq
- Monthly totals give names and circumstances
- Defenselink
Casualty
List
- Table provides up-to-date numbers of wounded and killed soldiers in
Afghanistan and Iraq, separated by combat and non-combat
- Iraqi
Freedom Casualties (Defense Link)
- Detailed demographics on casualties and names of individuals
- IRAQ
- Photographs
- Somber
Task of Honoring the Fallen (Seattle Times)
- Picture taken by Tami Solicio of flag-drapped coffins of U.S.
soldiers
returning from Kuwait
- Article published on April 21, 2004 caused controversy with Defense
Department
- Additional pictures reported on The Memory Hole
- Iraq
Index:
Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in post-Saddam
Iraq (Brookings)
- Troop deaths by cause, civilian casualties, Iraqi armed forces,
insurgents, car bombs
- Telephone subscribers, length of waiting time at gas station,
internet subscribers, life expectancy, water and sewer connections
- Also includes public opinion polls on U.S. occupation issues broken
down by religion
- Reports began in November 2003 and were updated weekly until mid-2007
- Coalition
- White House press release of March 27, 2003
- Lists "Coalition of the Willing" members but does not include
contributions
- Contributions of Coalition Members
- See printed Ann Arbor News, March 29, 2003, p.
A4
- Iraq
Coalition Map (Ruste)
- World map dated 2003 illustrating which coalition countries were
providing troops and which were providing political support
- Non-US Troop
Presence and Casualties in Iraq (UMich)
- Graphic showing number of troops and percentage casualties of
coalition partners as of November 30, 2005
- Includes separate list of countries which are no longer providing
troops
- By Jana von Stein, Political Science Department, University of
Michigan
- Post-War Iraq:
Foreign Contributions to Training, Peacekeeping and
Reconstruction
- Issued by the Congressional Research Service in June 2005
- Provides details of foreign troops and financial contributions
- Iraq
Weekly Status Report
- Newsletter by the State Department on actions taken to achieve
eight
goals in Iraq
- Includes members of the Coalition Forces
- Altered
Pictures of Saddam (CNN)
- Five photos released by the military on August 1, 2003 on possible
Saddam disguises
- Daughter:
Saddam 'had a big heart' (CNN)
- Report of interview with Raghdad Hussein on August 1, 2003
- Deck
of
Cards
- Playing cards given to U.S. soldiers with 55 Iraqi leaders on its
capture list
- Saddam is the ace of spades; his sons are the ace of hearts and
clubs
- Ex-Bodyguard for Uday Tells of Near Misses, Defiance,
Defeat
- Article by Matthew McAllester appearing in Newsday,
July
25, 2003, p. A07
- Describes Saddam's location during U.S. bombing attempts,
appearance
at mosque on April 11, Uday's need to be accepted by father
- Obtaining full text
- Printed Newsday, July 25, 2003, p. A07
- Printed Ann Arbor News, July 25, 2003, p. A5
- Purchase from Newsday
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic (UMich Only) using Guided News Search/General
News/Major Papers with McAllester as author and date as 7/25/03
- Newsday article available until January 2004
- Summaries from other newspapers may be available longer
- CNN's
Interview with McAllester provides an extensive
summary
- Hussein Brothers
- Video
Shows Haggard Saddam Promising Victory
- Associated Press report that Saddam promised victory in a video
tape
on April 9
- Video aired on Abu Dhabi Television on April 18
- Article dated May 3, 2003
- Iraq:
Baghdad Moves to Euro (RFE/RL)
- Radio Free Europe article by Charles Recknagel, dated November 1,
2000
- Saddam moved from using the U.S. dollar to the Euro for trading oil
on
November 6, 2000
- Expected to cost Iraq money
- Iraq
Nets Handsome Profit by Dumping Dollar for Euro
- Article in the Guardian, appearing February 16, 2003
- Value of Euro v. U.S. dollar has risen, netting Iraq additional
funds
- Monthly Energy
Review
- Data on all types of energy supplies, consumption, imports and
exports
- Access the Petroleum icon for imports from individual
countries
- Data in pdf, xls, and html
- Weblogs, or "blogs," are the best of journalistic reports in a
variety
of format from individuals, soldiers or professional journalists
- The
Guardian
- Limited number of blogs from newspaper reporters
- Soldier Weblogs
- Where
is Raed?/Salam Pax
- Graphic descriptions of the war inside Baghdad in diary form
POLITICAL AFTERMATH OF WAR
- Academic
Universe (UMich Only)
- Discussion of a post-Saddam Iraq occurs frequently on Sunday
morning talk shows
- Use Advanced News Search/News Transcripts for
2001-2002 to identify
projections
- Political
Information
- Index to political web sites, including political parties, news
sources, and lobby
groups
- Try an initial search, post-saddam
- Day
After: Planning for a Post-War Iraq (American Enterprise
Institute)
- Unofficial transcript of conference held on October 3, 2002
- Includes description of country and its own ambitions, war crimes,
oil, regional participation
- Iraq
After
Saddam (Center for Strategic and International
Studies)
- Cites challenges of nation building after a gut of the economy and
the variety of
cultural factions
- Working paper written in 1998
- Approved as U.S. ambassador to Iraq beginning July 1, 2004
- Biography
- Origins
of Regime Change in Iraq (Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace)
- Issue brief traces history of regime change recommendation from
Paul
Wolfowitz and Richard Perle through the Clinton and Netanyahu
administrations to President GW Bush
- Numerous links to original letters recommending the strategy and
political analyses by newspapers and the CEIP
- President
Bush Discusses Freedom in Iraq and the Middle East
- Speech delivered on the 20th anniversary of the National Endowment
for
Democracy, November 2, 2003
- Received media attention of belief that Muslim world and democracy
are
compatible
- Vision of a democratic middle east
- Future
of Iraq
- Address given by President Bush to the American Enterprise
Institute
on February 26, 2003
- Press
Briefing by Ari Fleischer
- Presidential press briefing on October 1, 2002
- Suggests the possibility of Iraqis assassinating Saddam
Hussein
- Iraq
Liberation Act - 1998
- Provides up to $97 Million in funding to support a transition
government in Iraq
- H.R. 4655, Public Law 105-338 (signed Oct. 31, 1998)
- Senate Foreign Relations
Hearing
- Hearings to Examine Threats, Responses, and Regional
Considerations
Surrounding Iraq
a post-Saddam Iraq
- Text version (downloaded from GPO web site) includes prepared
statements
and full text of testimony
- PDF Version (4.2
MB)
UNITED STATES OCCUPATION
- Baghdad
Bulletin
- Biweekly magazine in English created by University of Michigan
graduate
- Articles on the culture, health, politics, utilities, and services
in
post-War Iraq
- Last issue on the web
- CIA Report:
Iraqis Losing Faith in U.S. (MSNBC)
- According to highly secretive CIA report, resistance to U.S. is
growing in Iraq due to increased guerrilla attacks on the U.S. and U.S.
retribution
- Associated Press report dated November 12, 2003
- Iraq After
Saddam (CBS)
- Latest news articles
- Interactive feature on humanitarian crisis, economic plans, and
governance
- New
Iraq (CNN)
- News and features on the transition of power, daily life in Iraq,
and
the economic costs of rebuilding
- Archived in July 2007
- Biographies of Iraqi and U.S. key players
- Alphabetic
List of Casualties includes those killed after May 1, 2003
- Post-War
Iraq (Washington Post)
- On-going news articles
- Explanation of governing structure
- National
Intelligence Estimate: February 2007
- Public portion of a classified document released on February 2, 2007
- Sees the Sunni-Shia crisis only worsening in the next 18 months;
includes Shia-Shia violence, al-Quaida, and crime
- Future outcomes include a partition of Iraq, a Shia strong man, or
anarachy
- Rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops to worsen situation since Iraqis
will be unable to handle it for next 18 months
- Another copy
- Budget and
Economic Outlook: An Update (CBO)
- Congressional Budget Office projects a total budget deficit of $480
billion in FY 2004 before budget situation improves
- Does not include the costs of rebuilding Iraq
- Released August 2003
- Congressional Hearings
- Senate
Armed Services
- Initial hearing on President's $87 billion budget request held on
September 25, 2003
- Prepared statements of Paul Bremer and Gen. John Abizaid
- Use Congressional Universe
(UMich Only) for additional material
- House Armed
Services Committee
- Initial hearing on President's $87 billion budget request held on
September 25, 2003
- Prepared statements of Paul Bremer, Gen. John Abizaid, and Paul
Wolfowitz
- Use Congressional Universe
(UMich Only) for additional material
- Cost of War in
Iraq
- Running cost of the Iraq war in the United States as a whole
- May be broken down by per person or per household
- Compares war costs with the cost of hiring teachers, granting
college
scholarships, public housing, children's health, and public
education
- Economic
Costs of the Iraq War (Columbia University)
- Article by Linda Bilmes of Harvard and Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia
- Three-year assessment of war costs, including military costs, the
economic costs of personnel injury, and oil prices
- Estimated
Costs of a Potential War with Iraq (CBO)
- Congressional Budget Office report released on September 30, 2002
- Estimates a monthly cost of $6-$9 billion per month for a war with
Iraq
- Provides troop assumptions
- Rebuilding
Iraq (CNN)
- Business news on rebuilding Iraq
- Some information on costs to U.S. government
- Iraq Study Group Report
- Bipartisan Baker-Hamilton Commission classifies situation in Iraq as
grave
- Recommends removing combat role for U.S. troops in early 2008,
training Iraqi forces and dialog with neighboring countries
- Report released on December 6, 2006 at
- Iraq Study
Group
- Members of the group, advisors, procedure, and timeline
- Coalition
Provisional
Authority
- Laws, regulations and orders covering Iraq, May 15, 2003-June 28, 2004
- List of Iraq ministries with web links when available
- Commercial solicitations, press releases
- Updates on progress toward restoring order (e.g. police stations
open
- Biography of Ambassador Bremer
- Political
Transfer Agreement
- Fundamental Law (bill of results) to be adopted by Feb. 28, 2004, a
Transitional National Assembly elected May 31, 2004, and vote for
constitution/new government by Dec. 2005
- Agreement between the Iraqi National Governing Council and U.S.
Administrator Paul Bremer on November 15, 2003
- Key Media Articles
- Abuse
of Iraqi POWS by GIs Probed (CBS)
- Article about Dan Rather's interview with General Mark Kimmitt on
Sixty Minutes II, April 28, 2004
- Six soliders to undergo court martial for abusing prisoners in
Iraq
- Iraq Abuse
Photos Spark Outrage (BBC)
- BBC news report of the abuse incident with videos from CBS
- New
Details of Prison Abuse Emerge (Washington Post)
- Photos and videos of prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib
- Leaked to the
newspaper and published on May 21, 2004
- Prisoner interviews
- Article may require free registration
- New Yorker Articles by Seymour Hersh
- Prison
Visits by General Reported in Hearing (Washington
Post)
- Lawyer for Sgt. Chip Frederick alleges that General Ricardo Sanchez
saw the abuse at Abu Ghraib
- Article dated May 23, 2003
- ACLU Torture
FOIA
- Full text of unpublicized investigations on torture of U.S.
prisoners in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and the United States
- Obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and released on
December 14,
2004
- Army Inspector General
Detainee Operations Report
- Report lists 94 cases of prisoner abuse
- Released July 2004
- CACI
- Civilian contractor for intelligence operations in Iraq
- Geoffrey
Miller Press Briefing
- Summary of comments by new general in command of Iraq detainee
operations
- Assures human rights compliance
- Independent
Panel to Review DOD Detention Operations
- Determined that night operations at Abu Ghraib were unruly
- Various officers responsible for the environment up the chain of
command
- Former Secretary of State James Schlesinger chaired the panel
- Released August 24, 2004
- Another copy
- International
Committee for the Red Cross Report
- Investigation
of Intelligence Activities at Abu Ghraib, Executive Summary
(Washington Post)
- Known as the Fay Report and released on August 25, 2004
- Finds widespread abuse of prisoners by military intelligence
personnel
- Another copy
- LEGAL ADVICE
- Bush
Administration Memoes on Torture (Washington Post)
- Compilation of memoes from the Justice Department, Defense
Department,
Rumsfeld, legal counsels and President Bush on torture interrogation at
Guantanamo, January 2002 - April 2003
- Washington Post dated June 22, 2004
- Use requires free registration
- Justice Dept. Memo on Torture
- President Bush's Reaction
- Prisoner
Abuse: Patterns from the Past (National Security
Archive)
- CIA interrogation training manuals from the 1963 and 1983
- Memo dated 1992 warning then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney that
Spanish language manuals meant for training intelligence officers in
Latin
America had objectionable material
- Regulations
Covering Prisoner Interrogation
- Rumsfeld Testimony Before
Congress
- Taguba
Report (MSNBC)
- U.S.
Military in Torture Scandal (Guardian)
- Article blames civilian interrogation contractors for
abuse and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners
- See also Prisoners of War
- Occupation
Watch
- Numerous English-language news on humanitarian crisis, rebuilding
Iraq, oil, military events
- Special focus on contracted reconstruction
- Iraq
Index:
Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in post-Saddam
Iraq (Brookings)
- Troop deaths by cause, civilian casualties, Iraqi armed forces,
insurgents, car bombs
- Telephone subscribers, length of waiting time at gas station,
internet subscribers, life expectancy, water and sewer connections
- Also includes public opinion polls on U.S. occupation issues broken
down by religion
- Reports began in November 2003 and are updated weekly
- Measuring
Stability and Security in Iraq
- Defense Department quarterly report to Congress beginning July 2005
- Describes political, economic and security developments in Iraq
- Includes statistics, particularly on the military and Iraqi
security forces
- Recommends changes in policy
- November
2006 Report released the day Robert Gates was sworn in as
Secretary of Defense
- Al-Zarqawi
- Baghdad Blast
Kills Iraqi Leader (BBC)
- News report that Ezzedine Salim, Iraqi Governing Council President,
was killed in a suicide bomb blast on May 17, 2004
- Declassified
Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate, Trends in Global
Terrorism, Implications for the United States, April
2006
- Released by President Bush on September 26, 2006 after parts leaked
to the press
- Suggests Iraq has become a recruiting ground for terrorists and
they have adapted their efforts
- Lists causes for the increased violence
- Jihadists will lose some recruits if fail in Iraq
- Fallujah Contractors
- Jordanian Embassy
- Mosque
at Najaf (CNN)
- Blast killed at least 75 and the Ayatollah al-Hakim
- Aimed at Shiites after Friday prayer services on August 29,
2003
- Nicholas Berg
- United Nations
Headquarters
- The UN Headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel was bombed on
August 19, 2003
- At least 17 were killed, including UN Special Representative Sergio
Vieira de Mello
- Secretary
General's Statement
- War
Casualties (CNN)
- War and post-war casualties listed alphabetically by last name
- Includes date of death and circumstances
- Global
Posture Review of the United States
- Senate Armed Services hearing held on September 23, 2004
- Senator Jack Reed read into the record part of the Defense Science
Board's estimate of limited manpower in Iraq
- Full report is classified; Senator Reed's statements no available
on
the internet as of Sept. 25, 2004
- Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's opening remarks included on Senate web
site
- Bush
Address to UN on PostWar Cooperation
- Speech given to the General Assembly on September 23, 2003
- Encourages UN to rebuild the Middle East by ensuring democracy in
Iraq, providing humanitarian aid, eliminating weapons of mass
destruction, and fostering a separate Palestinian state
- Kofi Annan's Address to
UN
- Speech given to the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2003
- Criticizes pre-emptive strikes but encourages UN to support the
rebuilding of Iraq
- Over
340 Tons of High Explosives Missing From Iraq
- UN press release of October 25, 2004
- Report from IAEA head Mohammed ElBaradei that explosives lost over
past year through theft and looting
- Coalition
Provisional
Authority
- Laws, regulations and orders covering Iraq since May 15, 2003
- List of Iraq ministries with web links when available
- Commercial solicitations, press releases
- Updates on progress toward restoring order (e.g. police stations
open
- Biography of Ambassador Bremer
- One
Hundred Days of Progress in Iraq (White House)
- One hundred signs of improvement of Iraq since major combat
operations
ended
- Divided into 10 categories, including security, infrastructure,
women,
cultural issues, children, and democracy
- Published by the White House on August 8, 2003
- President's
Post-War Strategy (White House)
- Address to the Nation on September 7, 2003
- Strategy to eliminate terrorists in Iraq, reconstruct Iraq with the
international community, and move toward self-governance
- Expected cost: $87 billion
- President's
Thanksgiving Trip to Baghdad (White House)
- Address President Bush gave to troops in Baghdad on November 27,
2003
- Surprise visit on Thanksgiving
- State
Department
- Extensive news on reconstruction efforts and humanitarian programs
- Links to business programs
- President's
Announcement
- Announcement on November 8, 2006 of Donald Rumsfeld's departure as
Secretary of Defense
- Announcement of Robert Gates' appointment
- Rumsfeld
Memo of Options for Iraq War
- Classified memo written by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to
President Bush on November 6, 2006, two days before his resignation was
announced
- Includes reduction of bases, beefing up Iraqi security, suspending
reconstruction funds from terrorist hotbeds, creating an employment
program for youths
- Printed by New York Times, December 3, 2006 (Section 1, p. 28,
Column 1)
- National
Strategy for Victory in Iraq
- Outlines short, medium and long-term benchmarks to be met in Iraq
before a U.S. pullout of troops
- Defines political, economic and security issues
- The appendix defines eight objectives and specific actions the
United States is taking
- Report released by the National Security Council in November 2005
- Another copy
- Surge Strategy
- New
Way Forward in Iraq
- Outline of President Bush's strategy released January 10, 2007
- Points include: let the Iraqis lead; help Iraqis protect the
population; isolate extremists; create space for political progress;
diversify political and economic efforts; and situate the strategy in a
regional approach, and a surge of 21,500 troops
- Petraeus/Crocker Testimony to House Armed Services
Committee/September 10, 2007
- President's
Address to the Nation
- House
Con Res 63, disapproving the surge in Iraq, passed by a
roll call
vote on February 16, 2007
- S.
574, expressing the Senate's disapproval on the surge, was
set aside on February 17, 2007 after the vote
on cloture failed
- Surge Strategy and Assessments
- Congressional Deadline Bills (2007)
- H.R.
1591 provides Iraq War appropriations pending a
U.S. withdrawal
in September 2008
- S.
965 calls for withdrawal by March 31, 2008
- Bob Woodward's State of Denial claims the Bush
Administration, released on Sept. 30, 2006, was less than candid about
the reality of Iraq
- Bob
Woodward: Bush Misleads on Iraq
- Partial text of Bob Woodward interview with Mike Wallace on October
1, 2006
- For long-term access, University of Michigan affiliates should use
LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic, Guided News Search, News Transcripts, CBS, the
date and
Woodward's name
- Five
Myths in the Woodward Book
- Released by the White House on September 30, 2006
TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT
June 28, 2004
- Web Sites
- Officials
- President - Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar
- Prime Minister - Ayad Allawi
- Vice President -- Ibrahim Jaafari
- Vice President -- Rowsch Shaways
- Agriculture -- Sawsan Sherif
- Communication -- Mohammed Ali Hakim
- Culture -- Mufeed al-Jazaeri
- Defense -- Hazem Shalan al-Khuzaei
- Education -- Sami Mudahfar
- Electricity -- Ayham al-Samarie
- Finance -- Adil Abdel-Mahdi
- Foreign Minister -- Hoshiyar Zebari
- Health -- Alaa Alwan
- Higher Education -- Tahir al-Bakaa
- Housing -- Omar Farouk
- Human Rights -- Bakhityar Amin
- Immigration and Refugees-- Bascal Essue
- Industry -- Hajim al-Hassani
- Irrigation -- Abdul-Latif Rasheed
- Interior -- Falah Hassan al-Naqib
- Justice -- Malik Dohan al-Hassan
- Labor -- Leila Abdul-Latif
- Oil -- Thamir Ghadbhan
- Planning -- Mahdi al-Hafidh
- Provincial Affairs -- Waeil Abdel-Latif Women's Affairs --
Nermin Othman
- Public Works -- Nesreen Mustafa Berwari
- Science and Technology -- Rashad Mandan Omar
- Sport and Youth -- Ali Faik Alghaban
- Trade -- Mohammed al-Joubri
- Transportation -- Louei Hatim Sultan al-Aris
- Minister of State -- Qassim Dawoud
- Minister of State -- Mahmoud Farhad Othman
- Minister of State -- Adnan al-Janabi
- Draft
Resolution (CNN)
- Highlights of resolution proposed by U.S. and UK on May 24, 2004
- Calls for UN Peacekeeping force under U.S. command for one year
- Revised
Text (June 1, 2004)
- Final Text of UN Sovereignty Resolution
(S/Res.1546)
- UN
News on Iraq
- News releases and resolutions about UN's roles in Iraq
- Includes Lakhdar Brahimi's negotiations on a new government, Oil
for
Food investigation, UNMOVIC and UNSCOM reports
PERMANENT GOVERNMENT
- Cabinet
Members (August 2006)
- Stephen Hadley Memo on Nuri al-Malaki
- Classified memo written by National Security Advisor on November 8
and leaked to the press on November 29, 2006
- Explores possible reasons by Nuri al-Malaki unable to control
violence in Iraq and steps to improve the ground situation
- Memo printed in the New York Times, November 29, 2006,
Late Edition, Section A, p. 19 but not on its web site
- University of Michigan affiliates should search LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic for the New York Times, Nov. 29, 2006 with the
following keywords in the headline: national security adviser's
and iraq
SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE
- Speeches
- Defense
Department Briefing
- Text of presentations by Ambassador Paul Bremer and General Ricardo
Sanchez made in Baghdad on December 14, 2003
- Includes slides of Operation Red Dawn, pictures of Saddam after
captured, and questions/answers during the press conference
- Statute
of the Iraqi Special Tribunal
- Rules for Iraq war crimes trials
- Issued by the Iraqi Governing Council on December 10, 2003
- Saddam Hussein's Arraignment - July 1,
2004
- Trial of
Saddam Hussein (Law Library of Congress)
- Very clear description of historical context, court procedures,
indictment, and appellate decision
- Includes related treaties, additional readings and web sites
- Trial
Summary (Court TV)
- Verdict
(BBC)
- Summaries of the verdict and sentences delivered on November 5,
2006
- Saddam's Farewell Letter
- Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30, 2006, at 6:05 a.m.
Iraqi time
- CNN
Coverage
- Timeline of Saddam's downfall
- Videos and pictures of the execution from Iraqi television
- Some of the images are graphic
INTEREST GROUPS
- Bin Laden Address to Iraq (Feb. 11, 2003)
- Excerpts
(CNN)
- English excerpts of tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera
- Encourages Iraqi people to launch suicide attacks against Americans
but also suggests Saddam could be considered an infidel
- See also America's War
Against Terrorism
- Gore
Speech on Iraq
- Former Presidential candidate Gore's speech to the
Commonwealth Club on September 23, 2002
- Believes U.S. should finish war on Al-Qaeda first
- Scott
Ritter
- Text of CNN interview with former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter
- Ritter addressed the Iraqi National Assembly on September 8, 2002
- Said U.S. invasion of Iraq would be a dramatic mistake
- Gallup Organization
- Summary results of most current public opinion polls
- Gallup Poll, 1935 to present, also available in the Graduate
Library Reference Room
as HN 90.P9 .G18
- Year
After Iraq War (Pew Research Center)
- Public opinion poll of U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia,
Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan on all aspects of Iraq War and
relations
with U.S.
- Covers opinions at various dates between April 2002 and March 2004
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, effectiveness of war on
terrorism,
which agency best to reconstruct Iraq
- Favorability ratings of Bush, Blair, Annan and Bin Laden
- Includes Christian and Muslim breakdowns
- Pew Research
Center
- Text and statistics of U.S. public opinion polls on politics,
public
policy, and the press
- Current issues include Election 2002 issues and President Bush's
clarity on Iraq
- Polling
Report
- Biweekly periodical with public opinion polls on
politics, business, and culture
- October 2002 poll on handling of Iraq
- Polling
the Nations, 1986+ (UMich Only)
- Indexes public opinion survey questions in foreign countries
- Choose data base; at the NEXT screen, type in keyword search
- Searches may be refined
- Data includes the full text of the question, brief results, and a
citation to the article
- Roper
Center/Public Opinion
- Primarily information about
the
Center
- Searchable catalogs of its public opinion polls, the Latin American
Survey Data Bank and the Japanese Survey Data Bank
- Roper polls can also be searched in Academic
Universe
(UMich Only) in the Reference/Polls and
Surveys section
- Alternative Sources
on
the U.S.-Iraq Conflict
- Alternative news sources and discussion lists
- Weblink to numerous war opposition groups
- American
Friends
Service Committee
- Resource guide on Iraq and the effect of economic sanctions
- Articles on opposing the war and on a post-war Iraq
- International Action
Center
- Notices of anti-war marches
- Articles and brief opinion pieces on the war
- Organization founded by Ramsey Clark
- Win Without
War
- Coalition of 32 anti-war groups with Martin Sheen as a media
spokesperson
- Organized a virtual march on Washington
- Web sites recommends ways Saddam could be disarmed without war
- Links to related groups
Official
Records
| Document |
Definition |
Index |
Full Text |
| Official Records |
Debates |
Access
UN*,
1948+
UN
Speech Index, 1983+ |
Access
UN*, 1990+ if vote
UNODS*, 1992+ (password in
DocCen)
DocCen in paper and fiche |
| Resolutions |
Legislation |
Access
UN*,
1948+ |
Access
UN*, 1990+
UNODS*, 1946+ (password in
DocCen)
UN Web Site
--GA, 1963+
--SC, 1946+
DocCen in paper and fiche |
| Voting Records |
Country Votes on Resolutions |
Voting
Records
--SC, 1946+
--GA, 1983+ |
Voting
Records
--Security Council, 1946+
--General Assembly, 1983+ |
| Mimeographed (Masthead) |
Letters and Drafts |
Access
UN*,
1948+ |
UN Web Site,
some, 1990+
UNODS*, 1992+ (password in
DocCen)
DocCen in paper and fiche |
*Campus-Licensed Web Site
- Definition
- Texts of General Assembly, Security Council, and
Economic and Social Council proceedings
- Includes speeches by delegates and resolutions
- Each set has own index by subject and country for each year
- Identify UN series number (e.g. A/45/PV.12, S/RES/242) and ask
at Documents Desk for
assistance in locating paper copy or microfiche
- Example of General Assembly
Index
- Indexes
- Access
UN
(UMich Only)
- Index to United Nations documents issued since 1948
- Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document
(official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
- Provides citations to United Nations microfiche and paper records
located in the Documents Center
- Includes the full text of General Assembly plenary meetings (A/PV)
since 1993 (48th session) and its committees (e.g. A/C.2/46/SR.1)
since
the 45th session, 1990, when they contain voting records
- Debates in Full Text
- Access
UN
(UMich Only)
- Includes the full text of General Assembly plenary meetings (A/PV)
since 1993 (48th session) and its committees (e.g. A/C.2/46/SR.1)
since
the 45th session, 1990
- Full text of earlier years for General Assembly and full text of
current
Security Council debates in paper and on microfiche in the Documents
Center
- UN Optical Disk
System has
debates in full text since 1992 but is only available by signon in the
Documents Center
- Resolutions in Full Text
UN Web
Site
- Full text of General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and
Security Council Resolutions since 1973
- United
Nations Speech Index
- Indexes speeches in the General Assembly, Economic and Social
Council, Security Council and Trusteeship Council since 1983
- Index by country or keyword
- Sample search by country, subject and session:
Choose keyword
russia* 54 kosovo
- Data includes speaker, country, subject, date, record number, and
agenda item number
- Does not link to the full text of document
- Speeches are also indexed since 1948 in Access
UN
(UMich Only)
- United
Nations Voting Records
- Country voting records on Security Council resolutions since
1946
and General Assembly resolutions since the 38th Session (1983)
with a
possible one-year time delay
- Searchable by resolution number or keyword
- Data includes votes name of resolution, resolution number,
agenda
item number, and voting records for individual countries
- Note: the arrangement is by resolution rather by
country
- Additional Sources of UN Voting Records
- United
Nations
Roll Call Data, 1946-1985 covers General Assembly; in
SPSS
format; ICPSR membership only
- Nations on Record (Doc. Cen. JX 1977.8 .V6
N28) has General Assembly roll call charts, 1945-86
- General Assembly Sessional Index, 1975+ (in
Documents Center UN Collection) and Security
Council Sessional Index, 1976+ (in Documents Center UN
Collection) have similar charts
Mimeographed
publications
- Definition
- Draft letters and resolutions submitted by delegates to UN
- Index
- Access
UN
(UMich Only)
- Index to United Nations documents issued since 1948
- Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document
(official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
- Provides citations to United Nations microfiche and paper records
located in the Documents Center
- Includes the full text of General Assembly plenary meetings (A/PV)
since 1993 (48th session) and its committees (e.g. A/C.2/46/SR.1)
since
the 45th session, 1990
- CD-ROM Index to United Nations Publications
- Indexes all mimeographed publications and Official Records
beginning 1971
- Level 1 is a keyword index (e.g. China and "human rights")
- Level 2 permits field limitations by subject, date, country author
and type of document
- Guide to the
Readex CD-ROM
- Full Text of Mimeographed Publications
- Many but not all are located on the United Nations
Web Site
- Full text in microfiche or paper in the Documents
Center
- United Nations
Web Site
- Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member
countries)
- Press releases, daily highlights
- General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and
resolutions
- Does NOT include debates; see paper copy in Documents Center
- Indexed by keyword and type of document
- Major conference documents, catalog of UN sales publications,
audio-visual material
- United
Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection
Commission (UNMOVIC)
- Body replaced UNSCOM in 1999 and is involved with 2002 inspection
negotiations
- Web site includes quarterly reports and historic documents
- United Nations
Special Commission (UNSCOM)
- Mandate and membership
- General Assembly and Security Council resolutions relating to
UNSCOM
- Various reports on weapons inspection
- Latest semi-annual report
- Replaced by UNMOVIC
- International
Atomic Energy Agency
- Responsible for the nuclear component in the Iraqi weapons
inspections
- Results of the October meeting in Vienna for renewed inspections
- Previous inspection activities
PRIMARY PLAYERS - OTHER INTERNATIONAL
AGENCIES
- International Atomic Energy
Agency
- Agency that is inspecting Iraq's nuclear weapons
- Full text of documents and debates from the IAEA's latest
conference
- Organizational information and access to the IAEA's bibliographic
data base
PRIMARY PLAYERS - MIDDLE EAST
- Arab Net
- Overview, history, business, cultural, government, and tour
information for each Arab country
- Government information includes summaries of the national
structure,
foreign policy, education, health, and the military
- News in Arabic and links to related web sites
- Background
Notes on Countries of the World (U.S. State Dept.)
[Web]
- Summarizes a country's history, economy, and foreign policy
- Updated on a staggered basis every few years
- The latest edition of the paper copy is in the Map Library as
G59.U58
- CIA
World Factbook
- Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity,
politics, and
economics
- The corresponding paper copy is in Doc.Cen. G 122 .U56--Doc.Ref.
[Library]
- Encyclopedia of
the
Orient [Web]
- Multimedia encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa from
ancient times to the present
- Identifies people, places, and events with hotlinks and maps
- Country descriptions include the populations of major
cities
- Mideast Web for
Coexistence
- Detailed current maps of the Middle East and broad historic maps
spanning thousands of years
- Historic peace documents
- Brief economic, demographic and health data for Middle East
countries
- Model
League of Arab States
- Excellent guide to members of the Arab League and related states
- Considerable information about individual countries
- Background information on the League
- Information about Model League of Arab Nations simulations
- Near
East Division (University of Michigan Library)
- Links to major Near East studies centers, professional
organizations, and news sources
- Description of the University of Michigan Near East
Collection
- Religious Composition based
on CIA World Factbook:
| Country/Group | Shia Muslim | Sunni Muslim |
| Afghanistan | 19% | 80% |
| Egypt | * | 90% |
| Gaza Strip | * | 98% |
| Iran | 89% | 9% |
| Iraq | 60-65% | 32-37% |
| Jordan | 2% | 92% |
| Kuwait | 25% | 60% |
| Lebanon | 35% | 25% |
| Pakistan | 20% | 77% |
| Saudi Arabia | 22% | 78% |
| Syria | 16% | 74% |
| Turkey | * | 99% |
| United Arab Emirates | 16% | 80% |
| West Bank | * | 75% |
| Al-Quaida | * | 100% |
| Fatah | Secular | Secular |
| Hamas | * | 100% |
| Hezbollah | 100% | * |
Related
Sources
- Iran
Weekly Press Digest
- Internal, economic, and foreign affairs news summary
- Current selected articles available without a subscription
- Mission to
the United Nations
- Text of statements made to the Security Council beginning 1994
and General Assembly beginning 1996
- "Iran in United Nations Resolutions"
- Includes links to Iranian news sources
- Text in English
- Jerusalem
Post (Internet Edition)
- Full text of current edition
- Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
- Primary documents on the peace process
- Timeline and status of the Wye Agreement
- Facts about Israel
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations
- Description of the United Nations issues regarding Israel and
historic UN documents
- Geopolitics and the countries with which Israel has
diplomatic relations
- Israel does not have diplomatic relations with Iraq
- Jordan Times
- Last week of political and economic news
- Covering the Iraq situation
- National Information
Center
- Subject approach to Jordanian government, culture, business,
environment, industry, and transportation
- Links to government agencies
- Text in English
- Kuwait Ministry of
Information
- Full text of Constitution and biographies of leaders
- Brief descriptions of the government, international relations
policy,
arts, and education
- News releases beginning October 1996
- Text in English
- Web site down, Sept. 2, 2003
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations
- Speeches before the United Nations
- Historical background on Kuwaiti issues at the UN
- Security Council resolutions related to Kuwait and voting
records
- Conventions signed by Kuwait and information about the
mission
- Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
- Press releases and statements on Turkish foreign policy
- Government organization and structure
- Information on Turkish economics, politics society, and
tourism
Related
Sources
- Permanent Security Council Member
- Chinese
Embassy (Washington, D.C.)
- Substantial information on Chinese foreign relations and
public policy issues (human rights, Taiwan, Hong Kong)
- Economic statistics, education information, and travel
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations (Geneva)
- Press releases on Chinese policy, including human rights
- Embassy to the United
States
- Cultural and statistical information
- Tracing German ancestors
- Government includes section on foreign
policies such as Middle East, United Nations, and former Soviet
Union
- Permanent Mission to
the
United Nations
- Statements and speeches in English
- Germany elected as temporary member of the Security Council in
2003
- Permanent Security Council Member
- Embassy
to the United States
- Description of the Russian government and 1995 civil code
- How to obtain Russian visa
- Press releases on foreign policy, including material on Iraq
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations
- Statements made before the Security Council, Economic and Social
Council, and General Assembly in English and Russian
- Permanent Security Council
Member
- Foreign and Commonwealth
Office
- Annual report and background briefs on British foreign policy
- Travel and consular advice
- House
of Commons
- Full text of debates, oral questions, and written answers
beginning
October 23, 1996 (Hansard's)
- Searchable by keyword, speaker, type of document, and date
- Members, committees and officers of the House of Commons
- House
of Lords
- Full text of Hansard's House of Lords debates beginning June 10,
1996
- Members of the House, bills, committees, and officers
- Mission to the United
Nations
- Statements made to the General Assembly, 1997+, and Security
Council
- 10
Downing Street
- Biographies of previous prime ministers and current cabinet
officials
- Prime Minister's speeches, interviews, and press releases
Additional
countries
- Foreign
Embassies Worldwide [Web]
- Links to foreign embassy web sites and gophers in the United
States,
Canada, and other selected countries
- Foreign
Governments (UMich) [Web]
- Annotated list of foreign index, foreign relations, and
parliamentary web sites
- Political Resources
on the Net (Italy)
- Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections, political
organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by country
- Searchable by country or world region
- Web site has extensive coverage and merits high ratings
Constitution
Government
(Hussein)
- Interim Government covered
separately on this web page
- Intelligence
Agencies
- Brief descriptions in English
- Ministry
of Foreign
Affairs No longer active. Link
maintained
for historical context.
- Saddam's statements on United Nations sanctions and U.S. aggression
- Outlines United States war crimes
- Discussion of human rights situation in Iraq
- Archived
web page from July 18, 2002
- National
Assembly No longer active. Link
maintained
for historical context.
- List of committee assignments
- Selected speeches
- Presidency
No longer active. Link maintained
for historical context.
- Official biography of Saddam Hussein
- Speeches from 1999 to within the last three months
- English and Arabic
- Mission to
the United Nations No longer active.
Link maintained
for historical context.
- Selected speeches and press releases
- Laws, regulations and orders covering Iraq since May 15, 2003
- List of Iraq ministries with web links when available
- Commercial solicitations, press releases
- Updates on progress toward restoring order (e.g. police stations
open
- Biography of Ambassador Bremer
Political
Parties
News
- Iraq
Daily
- English-language news about Iraq and the Middle East with a Western
flavor
- Iraq
News Agency No longer active. Link
maintained
for historical context.
- Pro-government news against U.S. war and sanctions
- Iraq-Report
- Weekly news summary about Iraqi politics since 1998
- Reporting appears to be objective
- Issued by Radio Free Europe, a U.S. government project
- World
News Connection
- Iraqi news translated from Arabic to English
- Use a structured search with the SOURCE as
Baghdad
Secondary
Sources
- Background Note:
Iraq (State
Department)
- Summary of Iraq's history, economics, politics
- Includes Iraq's relations with other countries dating back to 1977
- Updated as of December 2001
- Iraq: A
Country Study
- Detailed history of Iraq plus geography, politics, culture and
religion
- Coverage of political parties, Kurdish problem, and Iran-Iraq War
- Searchable and browsable
- Army Area Handbook dated 1988
- Model League of Arab
States
- Background information, State Department reports, maps, membership
in
international organizations
- Speech by Saddam Hussein on anniversary of revolution
- Additional research materials
- Sources of
Revenue for Saddam and Sons (pdf) (Coalition for
International Justice)
- Report claims that Saddam's money coming from oil exports to
neighboring countries and outside the
Food for Oil program
- Released September 2002 in pdf format
- Federal
Agency Web Sites
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Includes search engine
- Google Government Search
Engine
- Web search engine devoted exclusively to sites with .gov and .mil
extensions
- Excellent for federal policy papers
- USA.gov
- Official federal government gateway
- Consumer-oriented approach by citizen, business, and government
- Good keyword search engine for identifying current
documents
- Declassified
Documents
Reference System (UMich)
- Full text of hundreds of Presidential, Congressional, and other
federal government documents related to foreign and domestic affairs
- Indexed by author, subject, type of declassification
- Text in HTML or gif format
- Declassified memoes on Iraq, 1958-98
- Corresponding paper index located in the Documents Center
(Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .Z7 D34) and microfiche in the Serials Room
- The
retrospective fiche is MICRO-F397; the current fiche is MICRO-F
X194
- Digital
National Security Archive (UMich Only)
- Full text of declassified federal documents issued during the Cold
War period
- Many of the documents issued by the State Department, Defense
Department, and Central Intelligence Agency
- Subjects include:
Afghanistan
Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
El Salvador
Intelligence Community |
Iran-Contra Affair
Iranian Revolution
Iraqgate
Military Uses of Space
Nicaragua |
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Philippines
Presidential Directives
South Africa
Soviet Estimate | |
- Searchable by a combination of collection, subject, keyword,
creator,
recipient, classification, document type, and date
- In searching a space ; space is equivalent to or; an
and must be used in a different box
- Example: nuclear ; atomic ; plutonium ; uranium
[as
keyword] - health [as subject]
- Text in pdf or gif format
- Declassified
Documents and Other Sources for Secrets (Michigan State
University)
- Descriptive background on document declassification
- Links to federal web sites with declassified material
- Annotated links to non-government web sites
- Central Intelligence
Agency
- Speeches and press releases
- Several CIA publications, including World FactBook and Chiefs of
State
- DefenseLINK
(Dept. of Defense)
- Defense Department speeches and press releases searchable by
date or keyword
- Links to Defense Department agencies
- Department of State
Foreign Affairs Network
- State Department speeches and foreign policy
- Arranged by region and subject
- Most information begins 1993/94
- Search engine accessible through toolbar at top of page
- Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic
Papers, 1861- (JX 233 .A3)
- Full text of declassified diplomatic documents and
correspondence
- Latest volumes are 1968
- Web
Version has selected volumes beginning 1958 and include
Johnson Administration policy on Iraq
- Intelligence
Community
(Federation of American Scientists)
- Presidential Executive Orders and Directories, Defense Department
Directories, laws and regulations affecting American intelligence
- Links to official intelligence community web sites with
FAS model web pages
- National Security
Agency
- Brief information about the agency
- United
States Information Agency
- Compiles news and State Department policies about the Middle East
- English and Arabic
- U.S.
Middle East Policy Data Base
- Annual review of foreign policy beginning 1980
- Part of the Middle East Review of International Affairs web
site
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized
(e.g. "affirmative action" AND "college admissions")
- Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)
- White House
- Press briefings, speeches and initiatives of the Bush
administration
- Updated daily except on weekends
- Use the Weekly Compilation above for permanent access
to the
Clinton Administration
- LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
PROCESS
- Chart identifies stages of the legislative process from recognition
of
a problem through bill introduction, committee work, debates, votes,
Presidential action, laws, and regulations
- Quick links to public and library sources of the
information
- JOURNALS
- Congressional
Quarterly
(UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of
Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- National
Journal (UMich Only)
- Weekly periodical focusing on politics in the Executive Branch
since 1977
- Includes presidential-congressional relations
- BILLS
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor, and date
- Provides the full text and legislative status
- THOMAS
- Indexes bills since 1993 by keyword, sponsor and date
- Provides the full text and status
- COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS
- Includes hearings (testimony), committee
prints (research reports), reports
(recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive
Branch communiques)
- Hearings of House International Relations and Senate Foreign
Relations Committees provide
Executive Branch policy as well as expert opinions
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes published hearings (1970+), committee prints (1993+), and
reports (1989+) by subject,
keyword, committee, and date
- Provides an abstract of publications located in the Documents
Center in paper and/or
microfiche format
- Includes the full text of selected testimony beginning 1988
- Non-University of Michigan Users
- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD [Web]
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword,
speaker, and date
- Provides the full text
- THOMAS
- Indexes speeches on the floor of Congress by subject, Member of
Congress, and date since 1993
- COMPILED LAWS IN FORCE
- United
States Code (via
Congressional Universe - UMich Only) [Web]
- Search existing laws in force by keyword or U.S. Code citation
- Updated within days of the passage of a new law
- Provides U.S. Code text as well as references to bill and public
law text
- Locate under Bills, Laws, and Regulations
- United
States Code (via Cornell Law School)
- Text of all laws in force as of January 1996
- Searchable by popular title of law, title and section of the U.S.
Code, or keyword
- Currently the best interface
- PUBLIC LAWS
- Iraq
Liberation Act
- Provides up to $97 Million in funding to support a transition
government in Iraq
- H.R. 4655, Public Law 105-338 (signed Oct. 31, 1998)
- Thomas
- Public Laws beginning 1973
- Search by law number or bill number
- Public
Laws, 1789+ (via Congressional Universe - UMich Only)
- Search for full text of laws by keyword, bill number, Public Law
Number, and Statutes-at-Large number
- Provides full text and bill tracking report
- REGULATIONS
- Code
of Federal
Regulations via Congressional Universe
(UMich only)
- Full text of existing regulations in force
- Searchable by keyword and agency
- Updated every two weeks
- Code of
Federal Regulations (National Archives)
- Searchable by title and keyword
- Updated annually
- Federal
Register via
Congressional
Universe (UMich only)
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and
agency
hearings
since 1980
- Approach by date, agency, type of information, keyword and CFR
citation
- Paper copy in Documents Center for past two years as J 83
.A2
- Federal
Register (via GPO Access)
- Search full text via keyword since 1994
- Check off Federal Register box on initial screen; see search
instructions on
the bottom of the screen
TERM PAPER GUIDES
- Citation Guides
- Guides to various printed citation guides in the Graduate Library
- Web guides to citing various formats, including electronic
- Turabian
Style
Guide
- Writing guide recommended by Professor Tanter
- Description of Professor Tanter's course and its requirements
- Detailed syllabus includes web links to related material and to
readings
- Term papers in text or HTML format
- How to
Create Your Own Homepage (ITD)
- Basic guide to creating a web page for University of Michigan
students
- Web Reference
(Athenia)
- Extensive links to web page design for expert and beginner
- Has search engine for rapid identification of design problem
- News and conference announcements
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Quotations and writing guides
- A+ Research and
Writing (Internet Public Library)
- Step-by-step guide to writing a term paper
- Includes tips such as setting deadlines, number of words per page,
role of brainstorming
- Instructions on researching both in the library and on the
Internet
- Library
Research Guide (UMich)
- Guide to analyzing class assignment, research, evaluating
materials,
writing the paper, and citing sources
- Description with links to web sources and printed materials in the
University of Michigan Undergraduate Library
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Todd Baker, Documents Intern, July 2008
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