Travers-Larson Iraq Issue Lessons and Resources
From the Chico High School Library


U.N. Security Council Members
U.N. Security Council Information
Global Policy: U.N. and Iraq, Background Information

Regime Change Debate:

Pro and Con: Attempt to Topple Saddam Hussein
Iraq: Is war inevitable?
Recent Developments 
CNN: Showdown Iraq 
PBS News Online Reports and Interviews 
Iraq: Full Coverage (Yahoo News)
Online newspapers from around the world 
Saddam Hussein In the News 
Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 
Iran-Iraq War (Infoplease Encyclopedia) 
Iran-Iraq War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) 
ICE Cases: Iran-Iraq War and Waterway Claims 
Fact Sheet: Chemical Warfare in the Iraq-Iran War 
Perisan Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) 
UNIKOM- UNITED NATIONS IRAQ-KUWAIT OBSERVATION MISSION 
Persian Gulf War- Encyclopedia Americana 
Persian Gulf War (Infoplease) 
Operation Desert Storm 
Fog of War (Persian Gulf) WashingtonPost.com 
frontline: the gulf war | PBS 
frontline: the gulf war: chronology 
Poli 378 - The Gulf War 
Saddam Hussein and His Rise to Power 
BBC News: Saddam Hussein - his rise to power 
Hussein, Saddam- Encyclopedia Americana 
Issue in Depth: Attack on Iraq 
United Nations Sanctions After the Gulf War 
BBC News | DECISION MAKERS AND DIPLOMACY | The UN's Mandate
Chronology of main events
(UNMOVIC) United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 
Replacement of UNSCOM by UNMOVIC.
UNSCOM: Chronology of main events
UNSCOM (United Nations)
NSCOM (United Nations) Basic Facts
Here is a map for reference purposes.

 
 
 
 


Iraq (NTI): Weapons of Mass Destruction 411
This page provides the overview and problem associated with Iraq and the approaches to controlling Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The next two links offer two options, and the the major pro-and-con arguments. Each page offers links to supporting documents. 
U.N. Inspections As An Option: Arguments Pro-Con
Attempt to Topple Saddam Hussein: Arguments Pro-Con



Iraq Lesson | PBS
This is an extensive lesson dealing with the Iraq situation, created by PBS. Resources are also provided in the following link. 
Iraq Resources | PBS

Lesson: Should the U.S. Launch a Preemptive Attack?
This is a lesson with imbedded resources. It was prepared by Alan Shapiro of the Educators for Social Responsibility in the Metropolitan Area. 

TIME Lesson: How Dangerous Is Saddam Hussein? 
A lesson plan created vy TIME magazine. Three articles and a background article to be used as a resource are linked below. 

CNN.com - Inside Saddam's world - May 6, 2002
CNN.com - What Saddam's got - May 6, 2002
CNN.com - "We're taking him out" - May 6, 2002
TIME.com: The Evolution of the Iraqi Threat

Pages With Information Resources On Iraq

CNS - Iraq Special Collection
Iraq-- C-SPAN in the Classroom
Foreign Policy In Focus | A Think Tank Without Walls