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General news sources / Breaking news
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk
CNN
http://www.cnn.com
C-SPAN
http://www.c-span.org
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/default_asp.htm
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com
CyberJournalist.net
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/features/iraqcoverage.html
Iraq: Denial and Deception (White House
website)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/index.html
United States Department of State: Iraqi
news
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/iz/index.htm
Government Views of Iraq
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/Iraqbib.html
United States Department of Defense: Pentagon Reports
http://www.defendamerica.mil/
DefenseLink - from U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/
From the U.S. State Department's Foreign Press Center
http://fpc.state.gov/c7688.htm
General Information about Iraq
Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/research/projects/iraq/war.htm
Iraq Country Study
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/iqtoc.html
World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html
Focus on Iraq
http://www.fpif.org/iraq/index.html
From "think tank without walls" made up of international network of analysts.
Camden County Homeland Security
page
http://www.co.camden.nj.us/homeland.html
New Jersey Domestic Preparedness
Task Force
http://www.state.nj.us/lps
New Jersey Office of Emergency
Management
http://www.state.nj.us/njoem/
United States Department of
Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/
Homeland Security Advisory System
(color system for terrorist threats)
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29
Federal Emergency Management Agency
http://www.fema.com
United Nations website
http://www.un.org/
Resolution 1441
http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/UN1441.pdf
Iraq Action Coalition (IAC)
http://iraqaction.org/
The American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee
http://www.adc.org/
American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/default.htm
Operation Dear Abby
Send a greeting via e-mail through at either
http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/ or
http://www.OperationDearAbby.net
Operation Uplink
Donate a calling card to help keep service members in touch with their
families at
http://www.operationuplink.org/
Military Relief Societies
Make donations to
Operation USO Care Package
Donate at
http://www.usocares.org/
American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services
http://www.redcross.org/services/afes/
Talking to Kids About War
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
http://www.talkingwithkids.org/twk-news-terror-dom-tips.htm
AAP Offers Advice on Communicating with Children
about Disasters
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/disastercomm.htm
American Psychiatric Association -- Helping
Children Cope with A National Tragedy
http://www.psych.org/public_info/childrentragedy.cfm
Articles on Dealing with Terrorist Attacks
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/thought/terrorist_attacks.html
Talking to Kids About Terrorism or Acts of War - from the NYU Child Study Center
http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/talking_kids_about_terrorism_or_acts_war
Terrorism and Children
http://www.ces.purdue.edu/terrorism/
Helping Children After a Disaster
http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/disaster.htm
National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violence.cfm
America Responds
http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Usgresponse.shtml
National Mental Health Association
http://www.nmha.org/reassurance/children.cfm
Family Education Network
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,4-4412,00.htm
Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging
Infections
Links to literature reviews, reporting procedures, hotlines, and
much more. Specific diseases mentioned include anthrax, smallpox, plague,
botulinum (the bacterium that causes botulism), and tularemia.
http://bioterrorism.slu.edu/
Butler, Richard,
The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Growing Crisis
of Global Security, PublicAffairs Books, 2001.
Butler, the former chairman of UNSCOM, details Saddam Hussein's
efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the U.N.'s unsuccessful
efforts to disarm him.
Hamza, Khidhir,
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and
Biological Weapons Agenda, Scribner, 2000.
A key scientist in Iraq's nuclear weapons program tells how he
and his colleagues came within months of giving Hussein a nuclear bomb. Hamza,
who defected to the West in 1994, says the Iraqi dictator would have nuclear
weapons today if he had fissile material.
Mackey, Sandra,
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, W.W. Norton, 2002.
A longtime observer of the Middle East predicts that if Saddam
were deposed Iraq could descend into the kind of genocidal violence seen in
Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Tripp, Charles,
A History of Iraq, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
A senior lecturer at the University of London explores Iraqi
history from its days as a territory of the fading Ottoman Empire.
Articles
Note: You may need your
library barcode number to view some of these articles.
Baker, James A.,
“The Right Way to Change a Regime,”
The New York Times, Aug. 25, 2002, p.
A9.
The secretary of State during the 1991 Persian Gulf War argues
the Bush administration needs to build an international coalition in its pursuit
of regime change in Iraq. Found in Custom
Newspapers Database
Gordon, Philip H., Martin S. Indyk and Michael E.
O'Hanlon,
“The Iraq
Ultimatum,” Slate, Sept. 9, 2002.
Senior fellows at the Brookings Institution argue that the U.S.
should make one more attempt to pressure Iraq to agree to intrusive and
long-term weapons inspections.
Ricks, Thomas E.,
“War Plans Target Hussein Power Base,”
The Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2002,
p. A1.
Ricks outlines a new Iraq scenario being considered at the
Pentagon: an attack that targets Hussein's power base and only involves 100,000
troops.
Warrick, Joby,
“Uncertain Ability to Deliver a Blow; Iraq Cobbles Together Weapons Systems with
Mixed Results, Analysts Say,” The Washington Post, Sept. 5, 2002, p. A1.
The article details Iraqi efforts to find ways to deliver
chemical and biological weapons, including bombs and missiles.
“Iraq: A New Approach,” The
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 2002.
http://www.ceip.org/files/publications/iraq/mathews.htm
The report makes an argument for a “coercive-inspections” regime
in Iraq backed by 50,000 troops.
War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences,
and Alternatives
http://www.amacad.org/publications/monographs/War_with_Iraq.pdf
This December 2002 report examines the
political, military, and economic consequences to the United
States of war with Iraq. From the Committee on International
Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Opens directly into PDF file; Adobe Acrobat Reader required.
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