Introduction .....................................................................................................................
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Acknowledgements ............................................................................................
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UK Iraq
strategy ..............................................................................................................
23
Iraq’s
invasion of
Kuwait ...........................................................................................
24
Resolution
678
(1990) ..............................................................................................
25
The 1991
Gulf Conflict ..............................................................................................
27
Resolution
687
(1991) ..............................................................................................
28
Legacy of
the 1990-1991 Gulf Conflict .....................................................................
30
Internal
repression .............................................................................................
30
Diplomatic
isolation ............................................................................................
31
The
strategy of
containment .....................................................................................
32
The
northern No-Fly
Zone ..................................................................................
33
The
southern No-Fly
Zone .................................................................................
34
The legal
basis for the No-Fly
Zones .................................................................
34
Arms
embargo ....................................................................................................
36
Economic
sanctions ...........................................................................................
36
Enforcement
at
sea ............................................................................................
38
Deterrence
by forces stationed in the
region .....................................................
38
Iraq’s
weapons of mass
destruction ................................................................................
39
Assessments
of Iraq’s WMD capability before the Gulf Conflict ...............................
39
Provisions
of resolution
687 ......................................................................................
44
Iraq’s
response to resolution
687 ..............................................................................
46
The
discovery of Iraq’s nuclear
programme .............................................................
48
Concealment
of WMD
activities ................................................................................
52
The
defection of Lieutenant General Hussein
Kamil ................................................
57
Events
leading to the withdrawal of
UNSCOM .........................................................
66
Dr
Albright’s Georgetown
speech .............................................................................
71
UNSCOM
activity ......................................................................................................
72
UNSCOM
report, April
1997 ...............................................................................
72
A change of
tactics .............................................................................................
75
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