Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web

By Prados, Alfred B.

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Title:	Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web
Author:	Prados, Alfred B.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Summary: Iraq has not fully complied with terms of the cease-fire agreements that followed the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait in early 1991. Several Iraqi violations of cease-fire provisions have resulted in brief military confrontations between Iraq and the United States, supported in some cases by other allied forces. Iraqi violations prompting a U.S. military response have fallen into four general categories: obstruction of U.N. weapons inspection teams, involvement in international terrorist acts, failure to abide by air exclusion zones imposed by the allies over parts of Iraq, and troop movements that could threaten Kuwait or internal targets of repression by the Iraqi Government.

Table of Contents
Contents Cease-fire Terms and Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resolution 686 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Safwan Accords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resolution 687 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other Terms and Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Iraqi Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Weapons Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 No-Fly Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Troop Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Course of the Confrontations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Early Incidents, 1991-1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 January 1993 Confrontation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 No-Fly Zone Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Obstruction of Weapons Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Iraq-Kuwait Border Incursions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Allied Air Strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Iraqi Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Further Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Bush Assassination Attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Alleged Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 U.S. Missile Strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 U.N. Camera Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 October 1994 Troop Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Iraqi Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 U.S. Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Crisis Recedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Iraqi Defections to Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Incursion of August 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Events and Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Aftermath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Further Confrontations: 1997 and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Mounting Crisis over Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The February 23, 1998 Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Force Deployments and Drawdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 International Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Reactions during Earlier Crises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Recent Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .