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SECTION 6.5
PLANNING AND PREPARATION FOR A POST-SADDAM
HUSSEIN IRAQ, JANUARY TO MARCH 2003
Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 309
Second round of inter-agency talks, Washington, 22 January 2003 ............................. 309
Follow-up to the inter-agency talks ............................................................................... 326
The UK Common Document ................................................................................... 327
Post-conflict discussions with the French ............................................................... 330
UK military campaign objectives ............................................................................. 331
Mr Blair’s talks with President Bush, 31 January 2003 ........................................... 333
Official-level discussions with the US ..................................................................... 340
DFID humanitarian contingency planning ............................................................... 343
Parliamentary discussion of post-conflict issues, 3 February 2003 ........................ 348
Creation of the Iraq Planning Unit ................................................................................. 350
Domestic contingency planning: the Stephens Group ............................................ 355
PJHQ planning seminar .......................................................................................... 357
Preparing for the UK’s “exemplary” role in the South ................................................... 360
Maintaining pressure on the US ............................................................................. 366
Revised UK military campaign objectives ............................................................... 372
Mr Blair’s meeting on humanitarian issues, 13 February 2003 .............................. 376
UN preparations ...................................................................................................... 381
The absence of a “winning concept” ....................................................................... 382
DFID contingency planning ..................................................................................... 389
“Sectorisation” ......................................................................................................... 394
The post-conflict Rock Drill ..................................................................................... 401
Seeking US agreement on the post-conflict role of the UN .......................................... 408
The potential for violence in the South ................................................................... 410
A UN “badge” for post-conflict Iraq ......................................................................... 418
The DIS Red Team ................................................................................................. 420
Obstacles to an “exemplary” UK effort .................................................................... 422
The ‘UK Vision for Phase IV’ ................................................................................... 434
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