Iraq disarmament crisis
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In the Iraq disarmament crisis of the early 2000s, Iraq, led by president Saddam Hussein, was pressured by the United States and its other adversaries to destroy alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass
A UN weapons inspector in Iraq in November 2002
A diagram of Iraq's alleged mobile weapons laboratories, as presented to the United Nations by Colin Powell in 2003
Saddam Hussein in 1979
The Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility in Baghdad on 10 March 1991, after it was bombed by the U.S. in the Gulf War
1998 bombing of Iraq
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The 1998 bombing of Iraq was a major bombing campaign against Iraqi targets, from 16 to 19 December 1998, by the United States and the United Kingdom. On 16 December 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton
Iraq disarmament crisis
…inspectors from doing their job and in at least one case, took documents from them. A Tomahawk cruise missile being fired by the U.S. at Iraq during Operation Desert Fox in 1998 U.S. support for regime change in Iraq On 29 September 1998, the U.S. Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act supporting the efforts of Iraqi…
A Tomahawk cruise missile is fired from an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during Operation Desert Fox in December 1998.
A B-1B is loaded with bombs at Dyess AFB on 17 December 1998.
Two F/A-18C Hornet pilots on board USS Enterprise discussing the results of an air strike conducted on 17 December
Gen. Anthony C. Zinni briefs reporters at The Pentagon following Operation Desert Fox, 21 December 1998.