Jan 22 France, Germany Unite Against Military Action in Iraq By PBS News Hour As U.S. forces continue to deploy in the Persian Gulf region, France and Germany announced they would work to prevent any U.S.-led military action against Iraq. Continue reading
Jan 21 France Pushes E.U. to Oppose War Against Iraq France, the current chair of the United Nations Security Council, said Tuesday it would ask European Union nations to unite in opposition to early military action in Iraq. Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch Saddam Hussein in Exile Experts discuss the growing movement by the international community to drive Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein into exile. Continue watching
Jan 20 Watch Saddam Hussein In Exile? Jim Lehrer discusses the possibility of exiling Saddam Hussein with the chief diplomatic correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, a retired Egyptian diplomat and columnist for the Egyptian magazine Al-Mussawar, and the former CIA Middle East specialist and senior research… Continue watching
Jan 17 U.S. Calls Iraqi Warhead Discovery "Troubling" A White House spokesman on Friday called United Nations weapons inspectors' discovery of empty chemical warheads in Iraq "troubling and serious," and said Baghdad had not declared the warheads in its weapons report as required by U.N. rules. Continue reading
Jan 16 U.N. Inspectors Interview Scientists, Uncover Warheads In separate operations Thursday, United Nations weapons inspectors questioned two Iraqi scientists at their homes and found 11 empty chemical missile warheads described as being in "excellent condition."… Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch More Time Margaret Warner discusses the inspection timeline with a chief inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Iraq from 1991-92, and the director of policy studies at Notre Dame University's Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch Background: More Time Spencer Michels reports on setting a timetable for inspectors in Iraq. Continue watching
Jan 13 U.N. Team Says Iraq Inspections Could Take a Year United Nations weapons experts said Monday that they may need up to a year to complete their inspections in Iraq, as thousands of U.S. troops continue to be deployed to the Gulf region ahead of a potential confrontation with Baghdad. Continue reading
Jan 09 U.N. Inspectors Say They’ve Found No "Smoking Gun" in Iraq Chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix told the U.N. Security Council Thursday that his inspection teams had not found any "smoking guns" after visiting some 125 Iraqi sites. Continue reading