Press Coverage

Calling a madman's number US News & World Report So Saddam is ready to play the old shell game of inspections again. Why not? The man's a master at it, after all–now you see it, now you don't. All that's really...
The greater nuclear danger New York Times While the Bush administration has been pushing hard for military action to neutralize Iraq before it gets nuclear weapons, Washington has been moving much more slowly to eliminate...
Blair's report warns New York Times London published a long-awaited report on Iraq on Tuesday, asserting that the regime of President Saddam Hussein was continuing to expand stockpiles of chemical and biological...
NPR All Things Considered - Terry Taylor NPR - All Things Considered - September 24th 2002 JOHN YDSTIE, host: Iraq wasted no time today responding to the British report. At a news conference in Baghdad just hours after it was released,...
BBC - Olivia Bosch - Iraq weapons inspections BBC - September 20th 2002 To watch the broadcast, click on the attachment at the bottom of the page. Iraq has told the UN it is ready to readmit weapons inspectors, four years...
LA Weekly - Terence Taylor - A Big Threat LA Weekly - September 20th 2002 A Big Threat LAST WEEK THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based think tank, released its dossier, "Iraq's Weapons of...
NPR All Things Considered - Terence Taylor NPR - All Things Considered - September 19th 2002 One of the key dangers administration officials have focused on in recent weeks is that Saddam Hussein could obtain a nuclear weapon. Now a...
BBC - Terence Taylor - The man from the UN BBC - September 18th 2002 Colonel Terry Taylor, a former UN inspector, spent six years investigating whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Despite denials and attempts to obstruct this...
What has he got? London Review of Books ... The IISS assessment is an exemplary piece of work. It is clearly written and contains a full history both of the Iraqi programmes and of the UN inspectors' work...
Times - Olivia Bosch - Interview Times - September 17th 2002 As the UN's weapons inspectors prepare to return to Iraq, a former inspector from the mid-1990s describes how accountants are just as important as chemists in...
Iraq: Is it about oil? BBC Online The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz says that the threats against Iraq are really about oil. "The aim of the American policies is the oil in the Gulf" is how he puts...
Saddam shops for arms Sunday Telegraph The threat of invasion is spurring Iraq into a military shopping spree in an attempt to strengthen Saddam Hussein's hand before a United States-led military attack on his...
A question of timing Sunday Times Apart from the predictable response by Saddam Hussein's underlings, there has been overwhelming support for the Iraq strategy set out by George Bush in his speech to the United...
Let's have an explanation Independent on Sunday In the countdown to war, the focus shifts to the United Nations. This is progress of sorts. Last month, it appeared as if the divided US administration was heading for the...
Confronting Iraq Economist TO HEAR his many critics tell it, George Bush had serious charges to answer this week before the United Nations court of international opinion. The leader of the free world stands...
Iraq's arsenal Economist Perhaps The IISS's assessment Nuclear/radiological • Does not possess facilities to produce fissile material in sufficient amounts for nuclear weapons.•...
Two last chances on Iraq Financial Times President George W. Bush this week in effect issued two ultimatums: one to Saddam Hussein and the other to the United Nations. Mr Bush told the UN General Assembly on Thursday...
Document against Iraq gives little new data International Herald Tribune The White House has released a document as evidence that it is time to overthrow Saddam Hussein that summarizes his regime's abuses of Iraqis and its past use or...
NPR Weekend Edition Saturday - John Chipman NPR - September 14th 2002 To hear the interview, click here (follow the link from this page) SCOTT SIMON, host: This week, a report from the International Institute for...
White House spells out case CNN Report is titled 'A Decade of Deception and Defiance' WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the Bush administration makes its strongest bid yet for international and domestic support for action...