According to The Riegle Report, which was delivered to the Senate on February 9, 1994, regarding the health of Gulf War veterans, "On July 30, 1991, Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM), charged with overseeing the elimination of Iraq's chemical and nuclear arsenals, told the Security Council that […]
7/7/1991
“…in July [7] 1991, after confrontations, the Iraqis had sent the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] a note admitting that they had tried several methods of enriching uranium.” – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 5 […]
6/15/1991
“Armed with U.N. Resolution 687, which allowed them ‘unconditional and unrestricted’ access to every corner of Iraq’s missile, chemical, biological and nuclear programs, the U.N.’s weapons inspectors arrived in Baghdad in June 1991.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, […]
6/15/1991
According to Saad Tawfiq, an engineer who worked on a uranium-enrichment program under scientist Ja’afar Dia Jafar in Iraq, in June 1991, “Saad and other members of Jafar’s team were called in to the presidential palace and told by Jafar that the [nuclear] program was over and that they must now get rid of all […]
6/15/1991
“In June 1991 a [UN weapons inspections] team led by David Kay, the chief inspector, which was surveying Iraq’s declared nuclear facilities, visited the Abu Ghraib military camp west of Baghdad [Iraq]. Although the Iraqis had admitted that part of the camp was used for nuclear research, another part of the camp had been commandeered […]
5/27/1991
” ‘If in the end war becomes necessary, as it clearly did in Operation Desert Storm, you must do it right,’ he [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell] said in a speech to veterans at the Vietnam War Memorial [on May 27, 1991]. ‘You’ve got to be decisive. You’ve got to go […]
4/28/1991
“From April 25 to 28, 1991, a congress of terror organizations met in Khartoum [Sudan]. The result was the creation of the Popular International Organization (PIO), a council of fifty members, one representative from each of the countries where an Islamic struggle against infidels was considered necessary.” – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 53 […]
4/25/1991
“In late April [1991] an emergency committee was set up under [Iraqi Foreign Minister] Tariq Aziz to decide how best to defy the UN, with orders from Saddam to save as much of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capability as possible.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Con Coughlin, […]
4/18/1991
“On April 18, 1991, as part of the Gulf War ceasefire agreement, Iraq delivered to UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission on Iraq] details about the quantity and type of its missile and biological and chemical weapons programs. By its own admission, Iraq possessed nearly 10,000 nerve gas warheads, 1,500 chemical weapons, 412 tons of chemical […]
4/15/1991
“In the north [of Iraq], six weeks after the [first Gulf] war ended [mid-April 1991], the United States joined the British and French in establishing a no-fly zone and creating a secure Kurdish enclave to prevent Saddam from slaughtering the Kurds and to stop the significant flow of Kurdish refugees across the border into Turkey.” […]