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  • Security Council Ends UNMOVIC
    Arms Control Today
    September 1, 2007

    On June 29, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution officially terminating the mandate of UN inspectors tasked with verifying and monitoring Iraq’s disarmament. The inspectors had not been able to visit Iraq since a U.S.-led coalition invaded the country in 2003. The United States and United Kingdom assured the council that Iraq had been disarmed. Others, however, warned of the dangers posed by the country’s residual weapons capabilities. (Continue)
  • Iran-Iraq Chemical Warfare Aftershocks Persist
    Arms Control Today
    July 1, 2007

    Almost two decades after the end of the Iran-Iraq War, the conflict’s chemical weapons legacy lingers in the streets of Ramadi and in courtrooms throughout the world. Iranian, Kurdish, and U.S. victims of Iraq’s chemical weapons are seeking judicial redress. At the same time, the Iraqi special tribunal has sentenced three key perpetrators to death. (Continue)
  • Security Council May Close Iraq Inspection Unit
    Arms Control Today
    June 2, 2007

    The United States and other permanent members of the UN Security Council are drafting a resolution that would officially terminate the mission of UN inspectors tasked with verifying and monitoring Iraq’s disarmament, Ben Chang, a spokesperson for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, told Arms Control Today May 22.

    Speaking to reporters May 15, Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. permanent representative to the UN, did not mention a resolution but did say that “the time has come to move to bring this to a close appropriately. And I believe that there is an emerging consensus to do that.” (Continue)
  • Problems With Iraq, Weapons Persist
    Arms Control Today
    December 1, 2006

    The United States has lost track of thousands of weapons provided to Iraqi troops, according to an Oct. 28 report from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Several days later, the office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte suspended public access to a website containing information from captured Iraqi documents apparently relevant to building unconventional weapons. (Continue)
  • Senate Intel Panel Releases Two Iraq Reports
    Arms Control Today
    October 1, 2006

    The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released two reports Sept. 8 as part of the second phase of its inquiry into pre-war U.S. intelligence concerning Iraq’s suspected chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs.

    One report compares pre-war U.S. intelligence assessments with information gathered following the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The other report evaluates the intelligence community’s use of information obtained from individuals associated with the Iraqi National Congress (INC), a group comprised of Iraqi exiles who opposed Saddam Hussein’s regime. (Continue)
  • Iraq Strives to Join Chemical Weapons Pact
    Arms Control Today
    July 1, 2006

    More than three years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Baghdad is apparently making progress in its efforts to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). But the fate of the UN organization charged with dismantling Iraq’s chemical weapons program has yet to be determined. (Continue)
  • Pentagon Details Hussein's Pre-Invasion Efforts
    Arms Control Today
    May 1, 2006
  • Three Years Later, Iraq Investigations Continue
    Arms Control Today
    April 1, 2006
  • Report Confirms Iraq Used Sarin in 1991
    Arms Control Today
    January 1, 2006
  • Senate Iraq Intel Probe Stalls Again
    Arms Control Today
    January 1, 2006
  • Iraq Intel Back in Senate Spotlight
    Arms Control Today
    December 1, 2005
  • Prewar Nuclear Myths and Realities: Chronology of Bush Administration Claims that Iraq Attempted to Obtain Uranium from Niger
    Press Room
    November 21, 2005
  • U.S. Failed to Secure Iraq Materials
    Arms Control Today
    October 1, 2005
  • LOOKING BACK: The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
    Arms Control Today
    September 1, 2005
  • The Robb-Silberman Report, Intelligence, and Nonproliferation
    Arms Control Today
    June 1, 2005