Iraq Disarmed : The Story Behind the Story of the Fall of Saddam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekéus, Rolf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006.

Hussein, Saddam.

United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq--History.

United Nations.

Disarmament--On-site inspection--Iraq.

Disarmament.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Causes.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991.

Weapons of mass destruction--Iraq.

Weapons of mass destruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

The quest to disarm Iraq took place between two wars--one justified and right, the other a dreadful mistake, a violation of international law that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. With these unvarnished words, Rolf Ekéus begins his political-thrilleresque story of the disarmament of Iraq--and the machinations that ultimately led to the fall of Saddam Hussein and the rise of ISIS. After Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and the war that followed, the UN Security Council ruled that Iraq must rid itself of all weapons of mass destruction. The difficult, politically sensitive, and dangerous task of accomplishing this rested with the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM), led by Ekéus, one of Sweden's most seasoned diplomats. This was a radical experiment in UN governance--essentially conveying to one individual the power to conduct a disarmament program, with oversight only by the Security Council. What followed were a succession of tense conversations with the Iraqi leadership, often-dangerous inspections, complex destruction processes, negotiations with Security Council representatives, and diplomatic maneuvering by world leaders. The recounting of these events lies at the heart of Ekéus's personal narrative of disarmament history in the making, a narrative that adds substantially to the evidence that UNSCOM's mission was successful and the 2003 war clearly illegal. Crafted not in the interests of a political agenda, but rather for the sake of historical accuracy, Iraq Disarmed serves today as a sobering cautionary tale.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

copyright page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Ch1- Iraq: Revolution, Oil, and War

Iraq in the Middle East

Kuwait War, 1991

Cease-Fire

UNSCOM and the IAEA

Between Two Wars

Ch2- The Building of UNSCOM

The UN in New York

Photo: A complicated communication system: New York-Bahrain-Vienna-Baghdad

Financing

Cooperation with the Security Council

Organizational Introduction

Headquarters

Air Support

Photo: UNSCOM's high-altitude plane for aircraft surveillance, U-2, based in Saudi Arabia

Bahrain

Baghdad

Ch3- Moving to Action

The First Crisis

The Security Council's First Crisis Meeting

First Meetings with Tariq Aziz and Hussein Kamel

Hussein Kamel-Saddam Hussein's Son-in-Law

The "Intrusive" Security Council Resolution 707

Photo: UNSCOM helicopter and inspection staff in Iraq

Ch4- The Map and the Reality

Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Program

Ch5- Long-Term Monitoring and Verification

Missiles and Chemical Weapons, Found and Counted

High-Level Meetings and High-Level Missions

Photo: Tim Trevan, John Scott, and Olivia Platon accompany me on a visit to the al-Muthanna plant for the destruction of chemical weapons

Ministry of Agriculture-Failure or Success?

Bahrain-Habbaniyah Flight Crisis

Photo: I try to avoid stepping on a mosaic of President George H.W. Bush' sface at the entrance to the Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad

Madeleine Albright-the New Ambassador

A New UN Secretary-General

Photo: With UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1995)

The Camera Crisis and the Missile Issue

Ch6- The Saddam Clause

Monitoring Inspections Are Accepted

Baseline Inspections Under Resolution 715

March Confrontation.

Photo: Thousands of chemical and biological bombs, warheads, and missiles were found. Here, a member of UNSCOM's team inspects a mustard gas bomb

Ch7- Secrets and Lies

The Mystery of the Biological Weapons

Russian Intelligence Information

Review of Iraq's Policy on UNSCOM/IAEA

The Gulf States

The October Crisis

The Fight Against Terrorism

The Situation in December 1994-Five Stars for UNSCOM

Saddam's Conversations on Tape

The Disclosure-Biological Weapons

Photo: The destruction of chemical weapons followed rigorous safety regulations

Changes in the Security Council

Finally, Recognition of the Existence of Biological Weapons

Saddam Threatens to Cancel Cooperation

Iraq's Weapons Strategy

New Bioweapons Crisis

Ch8- Hussein Kamel's Defection

Iraq's Confession

Photo: One of many meetings with Tariq Aziz

Meetings in Jordan with Hussein Kamel

Evaluation of the Hussein Kamel Drama

The End for Hussein Kamel

The International Reaction

A New Political Dimension

The Security Council's View

The End of Chemical Weapons

Nuclear Weapons-the Crash Program

The Search for the Unknown

Ch9- Working with Israel

Photo: A gyroscope fished out of the Tigris River

Meeting with Ehud Barak

The Document Hunt

To Iraq, Carrying Bomb Threats

Inspection Arrangements

Photo: Press conference in Baghdad on June 22, 1996, following the signing of the agreement reached with Tariq Aziz. An image of Saddam Hussein adorns the wall behind me

Reception in New York

Shades of American Politics

UNSCOM Under Pressure

Continued Search Operations

The Commitments of the Middle East Region

Ch10- Is the Job Done?

Photo: A Scud missile prepared for destruction

Poison, Guns, and More

Demonstration

A Spy of Our Own

My American Spy

IAEA's Concerns.

The Last Term of 1997

Daily Inspection Problems

Ch11- Say Goodbye to the Weapons

More About Helicopters and Stopped Inspections

The Last Security Council Meeting

The Assignment Ends

Profile of a Leader

Ch12- On the Path to Disaster

The Secretary-General's Envoy

Continued Intervention by the Secretary-General

The Secretary-General's Baghdad Mission

UNSCOM Returns to Baghdad

The Annan-Butler Crisis

Baghdad Under Attack

New Reports of Espionage

Photo: Iraqi territory from UNSCOM's high-altitude plane with an ironic greeting from the Iraqi side

Attempts to Harmonize the United States, the UN, and UNSCOM

Ch13- The End of UNSCOM, the Beginning of UNMOVIC, and the Second Iraq War

Why Was UNSCOM Disbanded?

UNMOVIC's Chairman

UNMOVIC Realized

A New US Administration on the Way

Iraq and the 9/11 Terrorist Attack on the United States

UNMOVIC Starts Its Inspections

Reports to the Security Council-Blix, Powell, Blix

The Mathews Plan

The Second Iraq War and the Rise of ISIS

The Evaluation of the Weapons Issue

Ch14- Iraq's Catch-22

Index

About the Book.

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Other Format:

Print version: Ekéus, Rolf Iraq Disarmed

ISBN:

9781955055741

OCLC:

1344542878