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  Resolution #1441

  Resolution #1500

  Resolution #1538

  Riza at helm of

  rules of game for

  sexual harassment at

  -speak

  turf wars within

  Vieira de Mello in

  Volcker Committee’s influence on

  WMD hunting in Iraq

  younger staff at

  See also General Assembly; Oil-for-Food operation; Weapons of mass destruction; specific agency; specific personnel

  United Nations Charter

  on using force

  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

  United Nations Guards Contingent in Iraq (UNGCI)

  See also Torben

  United Nations Refugee Agency

  United Nations sanctions committee

  United States (U.S.)

  American Enterprise Institute

  Ashcroft

  Berger

  bombing Iraq

  campaign to unseat Hussein

  Congress

  embroiled in blame game

  v. France on WMD issue

  France v.

  Iraq Liberation Act of

  toward Iraqi civilians

  Joint Chiefs of Staff

  made in

  objectives for Iraq

  oil companies

  Operation Desert Fox

  Operation Desert Storm

  Operation Iraqi Freedom

  Pentagon

  Ramadan in custody of

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Rumsfeld

  Schultz

  Schwarzkopf

  war on Iraq

  “war on terror,” 219-220

  WMD as policy premise

  See also specific American companies/persons/agencies

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  UNMOVIC See also UNSCOM

  UN’s Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)

  UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission)

  See also UN weapons inspectors

  UN-speak

  “bring it on!”

  “get lost,” 125

  “spying,” 218

  “truth,” 147

  Urbillium

  Ustinov, Peter

  Vatican Bank

  Viagra

  Vieira de Mello, Sergio

  De Villepin, Dominique Galouzeau

  sparking anti-French sentiment

  Voices in the Wilderness

  Volcker Committee

  standards of proof used by

  UN managerial culture revealed to

  UN reforms sparked by

  Volcker, Paul

  setting up shop

  Volvo

  “Vulnerable groups,” 143

  VX gas (nerve agent)

  Wall Street Journal

  War

  both World Wars

  civil, in Kurdistan

  human dimension of

  Iran v. Iraq

  Persian Gulf War

  U.S. on Iraq

  “war on terror,” 219-220

  World War I

  See also Bombing; Weapons

  Warner, Margaret

  Water, in Iraq

  Watson, Fiona

  Weapons

  AK-47 rifle

  biological

  chemical

  “dual-use” items

  F-16 fighter jets

  minefields

  M1 Abrams tanks

  Tomahawk cruise missile attack

  See also Cowboys; Hussein, Saddam

  Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

  economic conditions v. hunting

  France v. U.S. on Iraq’s

  human dimension of war v. hunting

  inspectors corroborate Iraq’s

  Operation Desert Fox v.

  U.S. army’s hunting

  See also Bombing; Weapons

  WFP. See World Food Program

  Whistleblower

  WHO. See World Health Organization

  Wilson, Charlie

  Wilson, Woodrow

  WMD. See Weapons of mass destruction

  Wolfowitz, Paul

  Woodward, Bob

  World Food Program (WFP)

  World Health Organization (WHO) 51

  Wotton, John

  Yanna

  Yemen

  Yemenite v. Afghan

  Yukos

  Zahn, Paula

  Zarif, Farid

  Al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

  on democracy in Iraq

  Al-Zawahiri, Ayman

  Zinni, Anthony

  Zoroastrian Kurds

  Zozik Arilines

  Zureikat, Fawaz

  1 Twenty-three million was the figure we used in 1997. It was based on an outdated and probably erroneous census, but it was the best figure available then. By the time of the invasion in 2003, Iraq’s population was estimated at twenty-four to twenty-five million.

  2 Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 43.

  3 James J. Barnes, prepared witness testimony, hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, “United Nations Oil for Food Program,” May 14, 2003.

  4 “After the Attacks; Reaction From Around the World,” New York Times, September 13, 2001.

  5 Bob Woodward, Bush at War (New York: Simon & Shuster, 2002), p. 49.

  6 Woodward, Bush at War, p. 38.

  7 John Burnett, “Waiting for the Inevitable in Baghdad,” New York Times, August 20, 2003.

  8 Report of the Independent Panel on the Safety and Security of UN Personnel in Iraq, October 20, 2003.

  9 Neil MacKay, “Former UN Chief: Bomb Was Payback for Collusion with US,” Sunday Herald, August 24, 2003.

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  Backstabbing for beginners : my crash course in international diplomacy /

  by Michael Soussan.

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  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  eISBN : 978-0-786-72694-3

  1. United Nations. Oil-for-Food Program. 2. United Nations. Oil-for-Food

  Program—Corrupt practices. 3. Humanitarian assistance—Iraq. 4. Food

  relief—Iraq. 5. Economic sanctions—Iraq. 6. Petroleum industry and trade—

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