U.S.-Iraq War - Selected Web Pages
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Meta-sites: these sites describe and link to sites from multiple types of sources, such as goverments, news organizations, non-profit organizations.
- Iraq War Debate - 2002/2007
Compiled by: University of Michigan Documents Center
URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/iraqwar.html
Last updated: April 30, 2007- Page originally created for a class taught at the University of Michigan.
- Contains links to U.S., international, and foreign government sites, news organizations, and think tanks.
- Some links to resources available only to current University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff.
- Sections include:
- Threat assessments (with sub-sections on chemical/biological warfare, Iraq WMD threat, and Niger uranium)
- Containment strategies
- Projected political aftermath of war
- United States occupation
- Permanent government (including Election 2005)
- Saddam Hussein capture, trial, and execution
- United States Institute of Peace
Compiled by: Jeannette Rankin Library Program, United States Institute of Peace
"In the fall of 2003, Congress assigned the Institute the task of assisting in peacebuilding initiatives underway in Iraq."
Two pages of interest:
- Iraq Web Links
URL: http://www.usip.org/library/regions/iraq.html
Last updated: May 12, 2005- Links to information from media, non-profit, U.S. government, and international governmental web sites, primarily in English, providing information on Iraq concerning conflict, weapons inspections, and post-war reconstruction.
- Includes links to maps, political parties in Iraq, and selected documents and speeches.
- Iraq
URL: http://www.usip.org/iraq/index.html
Last updated: November 2006- Links to USIP programs, reports, events, and online resources.
- Online Resources section has a link to the Oral Histories Project on Stability Operations, a collection of interviews of individuals involved in stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Reports section, http://www.usip.org/iraq/reports.html, including the following reports:
- Syria's Relations With Iraq, April 2007
- Scenarios for the Insurgency in Iraq, October 2006
- Saudi Arabia and Iraq: Oil, Religion, and an Enduring Rivalry, January 2006
- Iraq's Constitutional Process II: An Opportunity Lost, December 2005
- Who Are the Insurgents? Sunni Arab Rebels in Iraq, April 2005
- The Coalition Provisional Authority's Experience with Public Security in Iraq: Lessons Identified, April 2005
- Building Civil Society: An Overlooked Aspect of Iraq's Reconstruction?, July 2003
- Arabic Language Reports section has Arabic text of selected reports available in Reports section.
Compiled by: International Responsibilities Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table (see http://libr.org/SRRT/ for more about the Social Responsibilities Round Table)
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/iraq.html
Last updated: January 10, 2007
- Few, if any, links to government sites or documents.
- Sections include:
- Alternative News, Analysis, and Commentary
- Organizations Concerned with Iraq and the Middle East
- Special Reports on Iraq
- Destruction of the Cultural Resources of Iraq
- Antiwar Organizations
- Demonstrations, Petitions, Letter-Writing Campaigns, and Resolutions
U.S. government information & documents: these sites are maintained by U.S. government agencies, have links to specific U.S. government documents, or reprint U.S. government documents.
- United States Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq
URL: http://iraq.usembassy.gov/
In addition to news from the embassy, and information for U.S. citizens in Iraq, the site has - Iraqi Government Links, http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/iraqigovlinks.html (Some sites are in Arabic.)
- Iraq Election Links, http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/election_links.html
- Government Views of Iraq
Compiled by: Grace-Ellen McCrann, Cohen Library, The City College of New York
URL: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/iraqbib.html
Last updated: April 6, 2006 - Sections of note:
- Abu Ghraib Prison
- Prisons and Detainment Facilities
- Maps
- Congressional Research Service Reports (including a May 2005 report, U.S. Treatment of Prisoners in Iraq: Selected Legal Issues)
- Reconstruction
- Also has links to sites and documents from the United Nations, United Kingdom, and some members of the "Coalition of the Willing."
- Iraq Update
Maintained by: US Department of State International Information Program
URL: http://usinfo.state.gov/mena/middle_east_north_africa/iraq.html - Contains policy statements from State Dept officials; reports, mostly from the State Dept; links to briefings statements.
- Section 1227 Report on Iraq
AKA: "Presidential report to the United States Congress pursuant to the United States Policy in Iraq Act"
Issued by: the U.S. State Department
URL: http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rpt/1227/apr2006/
Date issued: April 6, 2006 - "The report covers current military, diplomatic, political, and economic measures that have been undertaken to successfully complete the mission in Iraq."
- Available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Reports
Issued by: Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department
URL: http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rpt/
- Includes links to the following periodic reports:
- Iraq Weekly Status Report (first report released July 27, 2005)
- Section 1227 Report on Iraq (first report released April 2006)
- Section 2207 Report on Iraq Relief and Reconstruction (first report released October 2004): "a quarterly report on the use of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds"
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
Maintained by: Multi-National Force--Iraq (MNFI)
URL: http://www.mnf-iraq.com/
Last updated: Updated daily - Information for the press and public from the US-led security forces in Iraq.
- DoD Personnel and Military Casualty Statistics
URL: http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MMIDHOME.HTM
- state
- reason
- operation (statistics include some demographics)
Maintained by: U.S. Department of Defense
URL: http://www.defenselink.mil/
Last updated: updated daily
- Sections include:
- Press Resources (including press releases and transcripts)
- Armed Forces Press Service, including OIF/OEF Casualty Update, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf
- Speeches
Maintained by: U.S. Department of Defense
URL: http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/Index.html (reports issued July 2005-November 2006);
http://www.defenselink.mil/home/pdf/9010_March_2007_Final_Signed.pdf (issued March 2007);
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/9010-Final-20070608.pdf
Last updated: June 2007 (reports issued quarterly)
- Reports submitted quarterly to Congress pursuant to the section entitled “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” of House Conference Report 109-72 accompanying H.R. 1268, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005, Public Law 109-13.
- Assistance for Iraq
Compiled by: United States Agency for International Development (which, along with the Dept of Defense, has primary responsibility for reconstruction in Iraq)
URL: http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/
- Information on Iraq relief and reconstruction efforts adminsistered by USAID.
- Includes a link on Acquisition and Assistance Activities which takes you to lists of USAID contract solicitations, announcements of awards, and information on grants awarded.
- Many parts of the page available in Arabic as well as English.
- U.S. Government Iraq Reconstruction Contracts
Compiled by: U.S. Department of State
URL: http://www.state.gov/e/eeb/cba/iraq/
- Information on contracts administered by
- Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO)
- U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Department of Defense (DOD) Army Corps of Engineers
- Also contains link to Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy
- Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
URL: http://www.sigir.mil/- SIGIR is a temporary federal agency "created by Congress to provide oversight of the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) and all obligations, expenditures, and revenues associated with reconstruction and rehabilitation activities in Iraq. SIGIR oversight is accomplished via independent audits, field inspections, and criminal investigations into potential fraud, waste, and abuse of funds."
- Includes links to reports and Congressional testimony.
- Report on the Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq Together With Additional Views
Issued by: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
URL: http://intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf- Report released May 25, 2007
- Report in PDF format
- See also
- Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq
- Iraq Study Group Report
Issued by: Iraq Study Group. The United States Institute of Peace was facilitating the group with the support of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP), and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
Available from:- GPO Access, a service of the Government Printing Office
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS76748 - United States Institute of Peace
URL: http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html
- Report released December 6, 2006.
- Both sources have report in PDF format.
- Information about the Iraq Study Group available at http://www.usip.org/isg/index.html
- Report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
Issued by: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
Available from: GPO Access, a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office
URL: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wmd/index.html- Report released March 31, 2005.
- Full report (3.3 MB, 618 pages) is available as one single PDF file, or as a collection of smaller PDFs.
- Information about the Commission, its membership, and the Executive Order establishing the Commission available at http://www.wmd.gov/about.html
- Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Duelfer report)
Maintained by: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
URL: https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html
Report released: September 30, 2004
Addenda added March 2005- Report is over 1,000 pages, in three separate volumes.
- Page also links to a 19-page (194 kb) "Key Findings" report.
- Page includes link to addenda added by the Special Advisor in March 2005.
- Available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Also available from
- GPO Access, a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office
URL: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wmd/index.html - University of Michigan's Document Center (in smaller files, 10 MB or less)
URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/duelfer.html
- GPO Access, a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office
- Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq
Issued by: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Report released to public: July 2004
Available from two sources:- GPO Access, a service of the Government Printing Office
URL: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/iraq.html
- Full report available as a ZIP file; documents within the report available as PDFs.
- Page also has links to PDF versions of individual sections of the report.
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
URL: http://intelligence.senate.gov/108301.pdf- Available as 521-page PDF document.
- The Saddam Hussein Sourcebook
Compiled by: National Security Archive
URL: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm
- The National Security Archive, a non-profit organization, obtains selected declassified U.S. documents through the Freedom of Information Act and digitizes them (see http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/the_archive.html for a complete description of the Archive)
- There are links to several reports here, including:
- CIA Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq Weapons
- Saddam Hussein: More Secret History
- Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The U.S. tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984
- Operation Desert Storm: Ten Years After
- Coalition Provisional Authority (U.S.-led body that governed Iraq 2003-2004)
Maintained by: U.S. Department of Defense
URL: http://www.cpa-iraq.org/index.html
Last updated: June 4, 2004. From the website: "Due to the dissolution of the CPA, this site for the CPA-Iraq Coalition will no longer be updated. It will remain available for historical purposes until June 30, 2006." [Note: the site is still available as of December 13, 2006.]- Site went up in July 2003.
- Sections include:
- Press Room (news releases, transcripts of press conferences)
- Updates (including weekly reports on governance, essential services, and economy)
- Documents (including budget and finance documents, minutes of the Program Review Board meetings, and a list of contracts awarded)
- Pillars (statements of U.S. aims in Iraq in the areas of security, governance, essential services, and economy)
- Fact Sheet on the Interim Iraqi Government
- "An Historic Review of CPA Accomplishments"
- Some documents available in Arabic.
- Some coalition documents available by searching DefenseLINK.
- Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership
Issued by: U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Center for Operational Analysis (See http://www.jfcom.mil/about/about1.htm for a description of the Joint Forces Command)
Report released: March 2006
URL: http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2006/ipp.pdf- "Unclassified historical report of military operations conducted in Iraq, reflecting the Iraqi civilian and military leadership’s perspective of events."
Documents relating to abuses at Abu Ghraib prison
Available from: National Public Radio (Information about National Public Radio is available at http://www.npr.org/about/)
URL: http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf (links directly to PDF file)
Available from: The U.S. Army
URL: http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/reports/ArmyIGDetaineeAbuse/
Available from: DefenseLink, from the Department of Defense
URL: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/detainee_investigations.html
- Links to special reports, briefings, news releases, and news articles from Department of Defense.
- Includes links to the following special reports:
- Executive summary of Investigation into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Detention Facility, released July 2005
- Executive summary of Church Report, released March 2005
- Executive summary of Investigation of Intelligence Activities at Abu Ghraib, released August 2004
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Foreign and international government sites: these sites are maintained by foreign governments or international governmental organizations (IGOs), have link to specific foreign or international government documents, or reprint foreign or international government documents.
United Nations sites
United Kingdom government sites
Compiled by: IraqWatch, published by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. See http://www.iraqwatch.org/aboutus/ for more information on IraqWatch.
URL: http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/index.html
Last updated: Not updated regularly after August 2006. Most recent documents from early 2004. For some countries, there are no documents after 2002.
Compiled by: Grace-Ellen McCrann, Cohen Library, The City College of New York
URL: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/iraqbib.html
Last updated: April 6, 2006
Compiled by: United Nations News Service
URL: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=50&Body=Iraq&Body1=inspect
Last updated: updated daily
Developed and maintained by: UNAMI (United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq)
URL: http://www.uniraq.org/default.asp
Archive pages
Maintained by: 10 Downing Street website (official site of the United Kingdom's prime minister)
URL: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page3109.asp
Maintained by: The United Kingdom Parliament
URL: http://www.parliament.uk/useful/sp_iraq.cfm
Last updated: June 2004
Issued by: Butler Review Committee (committee established by the UK's prime minister and chaired by Lord Butler, charged with reviewing the Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction)
URL: http://www.butlerreview.org.uk/index.asp
Last updated: July 14, 2004
Maintained by: Foreign & Commonwealth Office (home page, http://www.fco.gov.uk/)
URL: http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394374
Compiled by: United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
URL: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/InDepth/UkMilitaryOperationsInIraq.htm
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