A.V.M. Air, 73
ABC News Channel, 3
Abdelnour, Fakhry, 297–299
Abdel-Rahman, Omar (“Sheikh Omar”), 224
lobbyist extraordinaire, 9–10
Abu Ghraib, 293
Accountability
Government Accountability Project, 316
UN system lacking, 133–137, 214
UN’s lack of, internationally, 282, 294
Afghan v. Yemenite, 146–147
Afghanistan, 223–224, 261, 262, 269
African Middle East Petroleum (AMEP), 295, 298
Afsane, 35
Ahmad, Sultan Hashim, 157
Ailes, Robert, 223
Albright, Madeleine, 28–29, 44, 158
Alcatel telecom firm, 229
Algeria, 255
Allawi, Ali, 278
Allies (World War I), 77
Amanpour, Christiane, 241–242
AMEP. See African Middle East Petroleum
American Enterprise Institute, 273
American oil companies, 84
Chevron, 274
Delta, 269
Shell, 299
See also United States
Amnesty International report (2001), 56–57
Angola, 237
on anti-UN propaganda, 184–185
background of, 129–130
Baghdad mission by, 156–161
buck passing by, 137
called upon to step down, 290–291
“Hammarskjöld moment,” 161–162
ordering investigation, 284–285
weapons inspection deal by, 70
Anti-sanctions activities, 41–42, 51, 172, 175–177, 221
in Baghdad, 132
Arab Club of Britain, 178
Arab League, 156
Arabs
Kurds’ ethnic rivalry with, 310
Lawrence of Arabia, 267
Sunni Arab doctors, 310
Sunni Muslims, 77
Sunni terrorists, 251
See also specific Arab nations/persons
Araud, Gerard, 231–232
Armitage, Richard, 233
Arnett, Peter, 39
Arthur, Holbrooke, 43
Ashcroft, John, 220
Asplund, Bo (“Boo!”), 148, 151–154, 192
mission statement by, 149–150
Associated Press, 4
Atatürk, Kemal, 77–78
playing stupid, 228
Prime Minister investigated, 290
Australian Wheat Board, 228, 290
Austria, 72
Ayoub, Muwafaq (“Bumblebee”), 298–300
Aziz, Tariq, 28–29, 174–176, 240
Benjamin’s letter to, 177
on Genmar Resources GMBH, 270–272
Aznar, José Maria, 235
Baghdad, 265
Annan, Kofi, mission in, 156–161
anti-sanctions demonstrations in, 132
Bunny Huggers left in, 164–168
Jordanian embassy bombing in, 257, 260
trade fairs in, 221
UN interagency meeting in, 43–47
UN’s senior managers in, 198–199
See also Halliday, Denis; Hussein, Saddam; Sponeck, Hans von
Baghdad Hunting Club, 295, 297
Bahai Kurds, 77
Bahamas, 269
Baker, James, 66
Balkans, 253
Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP), 229, 230, 276
See also Paribas
Barnes, Fred, 1
Barzani, Massoud, 86–87
on UN in Kurdistan, 88–90
Barzani, Mustapha, 91
BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation
“Be your own man,” 21, 154, 316
Bell, Gertrude, 267
Benjamin Committee for Iraq, 175
Benjamin, Jean-Marie, 171–173, 175–177
Voices in the Wilderness, 174
Berger, Sandy, 162
Biden, Joseph, 235
Bierce, Ambrose, 182
Big Ben to Baghdad, 178
Bin Laden, Osama, 223–224, 262, 263, 269
Biological weapons, 41, 42, 219–220, 234
Bionda, Alain, 175–176
Bishopric, Suzanne, 229–230
Blackmail, 98
Blair, Tony, 235
Blix, Hans, 246–247
Blue Helmets, 137
BNP. See Banque Nationale de Paris
Bogart, Humphrey, 97
Boidevaix, Serge, 274
Bombing
Albright on U.S.’s, 28–29
B-52 bombers, 92
of Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, 257, 260
U.S., on Iraq, 22, 28–29, 65–66, 92–93, 164–168
See also Terrorism
“Boo!” See Asplund, Bo (“Boo!”)
Book of Esther, 128
Borat, 27
“Bottom-up review,” 109–111, 113
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 156, 300–301
Sevan and, 130
list of takers, 265–270
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 242
Ministry of Defense, 19
“missing” documents, 278
on UN Resolution #1441, 237
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 3, 234
British Ministry of Defense, 19
“Bumblebee.” See Ayoub, Muwafaq
Bunny Huggers (UN humanitarian observers), 41–42
interagency meeting of, 43–47
non-evacuation of, 164–168
See also UN observers in Iraq
Burnett, John, 256
Bush administration, 67, 231, 277
during run-up to war, 246–247
See also Bush, George W.
DeLay “unknown” to, 10
in Qatar, 246
on tightening of sanctions, 222
Butler, Richard, 60
B-52 bombers, 92
Cambodia, 253
Cambone, Stephen, 246
Cambridge Against Sanctions in Iraq (CASI), 174
Cameroon, 237
Casaroli, Agostino, 174
CASI. See Cambridge Against Sanctions in Iraq
Catholic priest, 171–175
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 290
See also Spy(s)
Chalabi, Ahmad, 82, 266, 267, 277
Chalabi, Tamara, 266
Chechnya, 261
Chemical weapons, 41, 110–111, 168, 240
Chevron, 274
China, 278
embassy in Belgrade, 166
Chirac, Jacques, 158, 161, 240–242
Chlorine gas, 110–111
Christian Kurds, 77
Christie, Agatha, 313
Churchill, Winston, 267
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
Cindy. See Spikes, Cindy
Cipro, 220
census of, 29n
chemical weapons used on, 168
defrauded, 4, 85, 123–126, 192, 266, 268, 272–273, 279
food/water for, 29, 30, 106–111, 131–132
front companies v., 123–126, 130–132
human dimension of war, 4, 238
international theft from, 278
medicines for, 30, 44, 107, 131–132, 198, 243, 280
parade burials of, 132
sanctions damaging, 173
“vulnerable groups,” 143
See also Fraudulent companies
Clausewitz, Carl von, 67
Clinton administration, 4, 92–93, 155, 162, 221
attack on Iraq, 165
Boutros-Ghali disliked by, 130
Iraq Liberation Act signed by, 169
Oil-for-Food monitoring by, 30
sidestepping UN, 236
Clinton, Bill, 276–277
Clinton, Hillary, 275
Clooney, George, 120
CNN news channel, 35, 117, 167, 220
Baghdad cook watching, 163
Iraqis watching, 162
narrow focus of, 245–246
no comment by, 28
Coalition Provisional Authority, 29, 254, 279
Coconut, 89–90
Columbia University, 151
Communist terrorist groups, 82
Concert of Europe, 294
Conflict resolution seminar, 151
Congress (U.S.), 4, 12, 30, 169, 269
delegation to Saipan sweatshop, 8–9
Connery, Sean, 25
ball of snow v., 192
Cowboys (UN inspectors), 41–42, 163
interagency meeting, 43–47
See also UN weapons inspectors
Crimes against humanity, 58
Crossette, Barbara, 181
Currency exchange, 230
See also Sevan, Benon V.
Daily News Building, 201
Darth Vader, 214
Dearlove, Richard, 250
Declaration of Human Rights, 294
Delay, Tom, 10
Delta Oil, 269
Delta Shuttle, 1
Demining. See Minefield operations
Mousavizadeh of, 315
See also Soussan, Michael; Torben
Derbandikhan Dam, 95–97
Desert Storm operation. See Operation Desert Storm
Diplomats, lying v. preserving peace, 133–136
Dohuk, 77
Double-O’s, 112–113
facilitating fraud, 272–273
Downing Street Memo, 250
Dubai, 241
Dysentery, 107
East Timor, 252–253
Economic sanctions (on Iraq), 4, 29, 56, 199
Baghdad demonstrations against, 132
enforcers v. alleviators, 41–42
United Nations sanctions committee, 51
UN’s 661 Committee on, 51
See also Bunny Huggers (UN humanitarian observers); Cowboys (UN inspectors); Oil-for-Food operation
Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC), 275
Electrical power generation, 92, 108
Derbandikhan Dam, 95
Elfverson, Christer (“Smiley Face”), 192, 260, 266, 282
Sevan v., 239
Spikes v., 194–197
Enron scandal, 294–295
EOTC. See Education Outside the Classroom
fighting in, 92–93
Euros, 230
Fallujah, 263–264
FAO. See Food and Agriculture Organization
Fawzi, Ahmad, 159
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
of Iraqi authorities, 4, 48, 78, 98–99
peshmerga, 99–100
UN personnel living in, 98–99
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 17, 290
See also Spy(s)
Finland, 97
Firzli, Elias, 172
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 43, 111
“Food basket,” 107
Food, in Iraq, 30, 106, 109–111
industrial supplies v., 107, 131–132
Ford Foundation, 130
Fox News Channel, 1, 3, 223, 250–251, 285
embroiled in blame game, 3
Grandes Ecoles of, 226
invested in Hussein’s regime, 231–235
on Iraq’s WMD, 232–234
“missing” documents, 278
nuclear reactor sold to Iraq, 240–241
stakes in Oil-For-Food, 155–156
See also specific French companies
Franks, Tommy, 246
Fraudulent activities, 268
Clinton/Bush administrations aware of, 4, 85
Iraqi regime’s, 124, 192, 193, 201–202, 228
See also Hussein, Saddam; specific nation
Fraudulent companies, 123–124, 131–132, 192, 193, 201–202, 228
UN mandate v., 125–126
in chain of command, 202
Freedom
Kurdish, 79–80
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 49, 84
of speech, 134
Freedom of Information Act, 240
Front companies, 123–124, 130–132
UN mandate v., 125–126
F-16 fighter jets, 73
Galloway, George, 177–179, 268–269
Gates, Robert M., 66–67
General Assembly (United Nations’), 35–36
Genmar Resources GMBH, 271
See also Lukoil
Genocidal program, 180
Germany, 269
companies involved in kickbacks, 290
Ghana, 130
Gingrich, Newt, 30
Golytsin, Vladimir, 123
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 315
Gourevitch, Philip, 129
Government Accountability Project, 316
Grandes Ecoles (great schools), 226
Greece, 72
Green Zone, 266
Guernica, 36
Guillet, Bernard, 271–272
Guinea, 237
Gulf War, sanctions on Iraq after, 4, 29
Habaniya airport, 38–39
evacuated from Baghdad, 167
Spikes v., 207–212
Halliday, Denis, 30, 38, 65, 261
as anti-sanctions activist, 173–174, 183
“bottom-up approach” of, 109–111, 113
on minefields, 101–102
resignation of, 163–164, 179, 180
Sevan v., 26–27, 31, 44–47, 138
on Torben, 42
See also Humanitarian report (on Iraq)
Hamdoon, Nizar, 128–129
“Hammarskjöld moment,” 161–162
Hamza, Mariam, 178–179
Hankes-Drielsma, Claude, 285
Health-care system, 62–65, 310
See also Medicines
Heathrow airport, 28
Helmsley Hotel, 288
Heritage Foundation, 273
Holbrooke, Richard, 285
House International Relations Committee, 2
Howard, John, 290
“Humanitarian need,” 108
Humanitarian report (on Iraq), 28, 30, 40, 109, 111–115
money distribution spreadsheet in, 116–117
See also Oil-for-Food operation
Albright on, 29
Amnesty International report on, 56–57
bargaining with, 3
buying loyalty, 266
chemical weapons used by, 41, 110–111, 168, 240
communicating via CNN, 162–164
during Desert Storm, 39
dividing international community, 30, 60, 227–228, 236–237
euros paid to, 230
fall of, 251
front companies and, 123–126, 130–132
Iraqi civilians scripted by, 28, 30
New York Post article on, 2
oil sales benefiting, 72–74, 221
palace access denied by, 155–158
Philips on, 21
profiting through smuggling, 84
propaganda machine of, 177, 179–180, 181
secret list kept by, 265–270
U.S. campaign to unseat, 219–220, 222–225
UN Resolution affecting, 235–236
UN’s business relationship with, 47, 157, 169, 170, 230
welfare of Iraqi people v., 131–132
See also Economic sanctions (on Iraq); Iraq; UN weapons inspectors
Hussein, Uday, 295
Hypocrisy as virtue, 171
Idealist v. realist, 316
India, 269
fraudulent activities by, 4
Industrial machinery, 131
“Innocent until investigated,” 120
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 242
Iraq, 65, 80, 92, 169, 174, 175, 193, 228, 230, 231, 232–234, 240–241, 246–247, 251, 266, 276, 309, 310
ancient, 37
as cake to divide up, 254
census, 29n
collusion with Russia, 69–71
democracy in, 263
economic sanctions on, 4, 29, 41–42, 51, 56, 132, 172–175, 199, 221
food in, 29, 30, 106–111, 131–132
government, 50, 101–102, 124, 192, 193, 201–202, 251, 262–263, 266, 267, 286
health-care system, 62–65, 310
invading v. occupying of, 224
Iran’s war with, 100
modern state of, 267
nuclear, 240–241
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 49, 84
phone lines rebuilt in, 229
post U.S. invasion, 312
relations with North Korea, 48
Revolutionary Command Council of, 50
rotten infrastructure of, 4
Russian collusion with, 60–71
security contractors in, 311
U.S. bombing of, 22, 28–29, 65–66, 92–93, 164–168
U.S. objectives for, 243
UN’s humanitarian report on, 28, 30, 40, 109, 111–115, 116–117
UN’s managing economy of, 136
water in, 29, 106–108, 109, 111
See also Civilians, Iraqi; Economic sanctions (on Iraq); Hussein, Saddam; Kurdish people; Kurdistan; Oil-for-Food operation; Weapons of mass destruction; specific people/places
Iraq Liberation Act, 169
Iraq Oil Ministry, 266
Iraq: The Birth of Time, 175
Iraq war (2003), 66
Bush administration’s run-up to, 246–247
Iraqi Central Bank, 230
Iraqi Governing Council, 251, 266, 267
Kurds in, 286
Iraqi Health Minister, conducting kickbacks, 124
It Doesn’t Take a Hero (Schwarzkopf), 156
Ivanov, Igor, 234
Jean Paul II (pope), 176
Jewish heritage, 128
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 222
Kant, Immanuel, 315
Kareem, Fakhri, 266
Kay, David, 247
KDP. See Kurdistan Democratic Party
Kerik, Bernard, 258
KGB (Russian national intelligence and state security agency), 82
See also Spy(s)
Kickbacks, 2, 192, 193, 201–202, 228
companies involved in, 290
Philips on, 124–125
The Kid. See Soussan, Michael (author)
Kissinger, Henry, 140
Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler professional services (KPMG), 269, 277
Kosovo, 236
Koysanjak, 91
KPMG. See Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler professional services
Al-Kurdi, 260
Arab rivalry with, 310
chemical weapons used on, 110–111
electrical engineers, 96–97
home from Europe, 311
proverb of, 75
role in Iraqi government, 286
self-rule of, 79
Sevan v., 81–82
electricity shortage in, 90, 92–93
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, 87, 93
UN Security Council on, 83–85
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), 82, 87, 91, 92
Kurdistan Student Union, 91
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), 82
Lathem, Niles, 2
Lawrence of Arabia, 267
Lebanon, 4
Levin, Carl, 84
Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 275, 277
Lindenmayer, Elizabeth, 127–128
Lloyd’s Register of London, 118, 291
for law-breaking companies, 3
Lone, Salim, 261
Lukoil, 72
See also Genmar Resources GMBH
Lynch, Colum, 277
Macalester College, 130
Mafia hangout, 194
“Make your enemies!”, 154
Malaysia, 72
Maps of Middle East, 113
De Margerie, Christophe, 228
Mariam Appeal foundation, 178–179, 269
Medicines
distribution of, 30, 44, 198, 243, 280
industrial supplies v., 107, 131–132
Memorandum, 145
Mengesha, Yohannes, 12, 23, 138–139
Mérimée, Jean-Bernard, 228, 270–271
Minefield operations, 76–77, 100–101
Mitterrand, François, 235, 242
Moore, Charles, 84
Morillon, Philippe, 137
Mossad (Israeli national intelligence agency), 82
See also Spy(s)
Mousavizadeh, Nader, 315
Movies, as exports of corruption, 222
Mukhabarat (Iraqi secret service), 65, 230
See also Spy(s)
Murder on the Orient Express (Christie), 313
Muslim Brotherhood, 269
Myanmar, 255
M1 Abrams tanks, 156
Nadler, Fred, 301
Nahr Omar oilfield, 228–229
Nasredin, 27–28
Nassim, Fahdal, 255
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Alliance
The New Republic, 294
New York District Attorney’s office, 290
New York Post, 2–3
New York University (NYU), 219
The New Yorker, 129
New Zealand, 269
NGOs. See Non-government organizations
Ninewah, 143
No Exit (Sartre), 146
Non-accountability
Government Accountability Project, 316
Non-government organizations (NGOs), 34, 97, 257, 316
North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO), 78, 82
troops in Bosnia, 130
North Korea, 48
Nutrition, 109–110
NYU. See New York University
Office of Legal Affairs (OLA), 123, 124, 130–131
See also Oil-for-Food operation
Oil companies, American, 84, 269, 274, 299
Oil overseers, 112–113
Oil-for-Food operation, 3, 12, 23, 29–31, 33, 40, 50, 63–64, 155–156
CIA finds corruption in, 247
expanded, 30, 70, 103, 118–119, 131–132, 157, 166
implicated in fraud, 266
infighting within, 111, 194–197, 198–199, 200, 206, 225
Iraqi people defrauded via, 4, 85, 123–126, 192, 266, 268, 272–273, 279
in Kurdistan, 83
medicine through, 30, 44, 131–132, 198, 243, 280
regulations governing, 123
used for terrorist support, 270
See also Humanitarian report (on Iraq)
Oil-voucher system, 71
OLA. See Office of Legal Affairs
“On Perpetual Peace” (Kant), 315
OPEC. See Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Companies
Operation Desert Fox, 50, 70, 168–169
Operation Desert Storm, 19, 32, 39, 66, 97, 160
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 49, 84
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC), 202, 301
Osirak facility, 241
Pakistan, 269
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 270
Palm restaurant, 194
Paper Flow Paranoia (PPF), 144–145, 151, 205
Parade burials, 132
Paranoia, 144–145, 147, 151, 205
Paribas, 229
Park, Tongsun, 301
Parton, Robert, 292
“Pasha.” See Sevan, Benon V.
Pasqua, Charles, 271
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), 87, 93
Pearl Harbor, 222
Perle, Richard, 222
Peshmerga (those who do not fear death), 99–100
Peter Principle, 136
PFLP. See Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Philips, Trevor (“Spooky”), 52, 55, 85, 101, 119, 266, 267–268
Benjamin meets, 172–173
on kickbacks, 124–125
mandate from, 21
plagued by spies, 17
Sevan’s nickname for, 45
on Soussan’s resignation, 217
straight talk from, 14–15, 16, 18–20
Picasso, Pablo, 36
PKK. See Kurdistan Workers Party
Plame, Valerie, 277
PLO. See Palestine Liberation Organization
Poirot, Hercule, 313
Political bloodbath, 3
Pollack, Kenneth, 222
Poncet, Denis, 309
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), 270
Powell, Colin, 222, 226, 232–234, 244
PPF. See Paper Flow Paranoia
Preston Gates law firm, 9–10, 37
Annan, Kofi, on anti-UN, 184–185
UN’s failure at, 185
Protein, 109–110
PUK. See Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
See also Russia
Al Qaeda, 255, 258, 260, 262, 264
Qatar, 241
Quai d’Orsay, 231
Ralph Lauren shirts, 8
Ramadan, Taha Yassin, 56–61, 64, 76, 273
inflated prices on imports, 193
in U.S. custody, 279
Reagan, Ronald, 240
Republic of Mahaban, 87
Republic of Turkey, 72, 78, 82
Iraqi oil sold in, 83
Torben’s escape to, 123
Resolutions, 109
#986, 149
#1153, 118
#1500, 252
#1538, 289
See also United Nations (UN)
Reuters, 4
Revolutionary Command Council (Iraqi), 50
Rich, Denise, 275
Rich, Frank, 10
Rich, Marc, 275
Richardson, Bill, 118
steering UN ship, 183–184, 202
Rumsfeld, Donald, 222, 240, 293
Russia, 3, 4, 155–156, 222, 231, 236, 273, 278
A.V.M. Air of, 73
expanded Oil-for-Food and, 68
Iraq collusion with, 69–71
See also Putin, Vladimir
Sachs, Susan, 278–279
Safwan Airbase, 156
Al Sahaf, Mohammed Said, 49–50, 52, 55, 256, 296
Saipan sweatshop, 8–9
Salon, 294
Sanctions. See Economic sanctions (on Iraq)
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 146
Schmid, Alex P., 262
Schultz, George, 240
Schwarzkopf, Norman, 156–157
Second Armored Cavalry Regiment, 256
Security contractors, 127, 311
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 129
Sephardic Viking, 128
September 11, 2001, 219–220, 222
Serbian army, 136–137
Sevan, Benon V. (“Pasha”), 22–24, 78, 126–127, 182, 259, 285–287
African Middle East Petroleum of, 295, 298
bar dancing, 99
Boutros-Ghali with, 130
communication issues of, 25–26
Cypriot aunt of, 300
declining interviews, 279
Elfverson v., 239
Halliday v., 26–27, 31, 44–47, 138
on Hussein’s payroll, 293–296, 298–300
on kickbacks, 124–125
Kurdish demands v., 81–82
on Mengesha, 138–139
oil overseers with, 112–113
Philips v., 45
post–Volcker Committee, 313
Ramadan’s meeting with, 58–61
Soussan’s farewell to, 218
Spikes v., 304
as UN personnel security coordinator, 33
Sexual harassment, 209–210
Sheldon, Hugh, 222
Shell Oil Company, 299
militias, 310
Shultz, George, 240
Sibneft, 72
Siemens engineering conglomerate, 290
Sign language, Iraqi, 309
Silicon Valley, 224
Sinatra, Frank, 220
661 Committee (UN sanctions committee), 51
“Smiley Face.” See Elfverson, Christer
Society for Support of Iraqi Children, 276
SOS Enfants Iraq (SOS Iraqi Children), 275
Soussan, Michael, 218
New York Post on, 2–3
resignation from UN, 217
Spikes v., 194–197, 200–206, 225
as whistleblower, 1–5
Soy, 109
Spikes, Cindy, 111–116, 151–154, 164, 207–212
controlling faxes, 142–144
as turf warrior, 194–197, 200–206, 225
Sponeck, Hans von, 164–165, 184
accusations on UN policy, 180–181
Soussan’s memo to, 186–187
“Spooky.” See Philips, Trevor
Spy(s)
Double O’s as, 112–113, 272–273
Mills accused as, 181
Muwafaq as, 298
Pentagon, 159
on Philips, 16–17
on Soussan, 217–218
on UN staffers, 97–98
working for Britain, 45
Srebrenica, 136–137
Stalin, Joseph, 87
Stephanides, Joseph, 23
Sudan, 262
Sunni Arab doctors, 310
Sunni Muslims, 77
Sunni terrorists, 251
Sweatshop, Saipanese, 8–9
See also Elfverson, Christer
Swiss magistrate, 123–126
joining UN, 125
Syria, 4, 72, 77, 113, 270, 296
Syriana, 284
Talabani, Jalal, 82, 86, 91–94, 120
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 154
Al Taqwa, 269
Telecom equipment, 131
Terrorism
bin Laden, 223–224, 262, 263, 269
communist groups, 82
Oil-for-Food used for, 270
Al Qaeda, 255, 258, 260, 262, 264
Sunni, 251
terrorism watch list, 269
UN definition of, 262
“war on terror,” 219–220, 222–225
watch list, 269
See also Hussein, Saddam
Texas District Attorney’s office, 290
Thatcher, Margaret, 19
Time magazine, 10
Tomahawk cruise missile attack, 22, 50
Tommy Hilfiger shirts, 8
Tora Bora, 224
escape from Iraq, 123
Total, 272
TotalFinaElf, 228
Transylvania, 140
Traub, James, 159
Treaty of Lausanne, 78
Treaty of Sèvres, 77
Tretyakov, Sergei, 272
Tripp, Linda, 213
Turkey. See Republic of Turkey
“Turkish Delight,” 185
Twain, Mark, 283
U.S. Congress, 4, 8–9, 169, 269
U.S. General Accounting Office, 221
UN. See United Nations
UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), 252
UN Development Program (UNDP), 95–97
UN Guards Contingent for Iraq (UNGCI), 80
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), 255
UN Laissez Passer, 32
UN observers in Iraq, 192, 197, 200–201
fact-checking mechanisms of, 30–31, 44, 198
turf wars between, 198–199
See also Bunny Huggers (UN humanitarian observers)
UN peacekeeping troops, Dutch, 137
UN personnel security coordinator, 33, 256–260
UN Program Management Division, 192, 195, 201, 205
benefiting from illegal revenues, 293
breaking own laws, 4
briefed on UN observers in Iraq, 200–201
“coalition of willing” v. “peace camp” at, 226–227, 240
inefficiency/non-accountability of, 133–137, 214, 282, 294
internally divided, 60
on Kurdistan, 83–85
reform of, 315–316
response to humanitarian report, 118
on sanction lifting, 102–103
wrong focus of, 238
UN weapons inspectors, 29, 41–42, 69–71, 118, 163, 221
Blix as Chief, 246–247
palace access denied to, 155–158
post Desert Storm, 242–243
Resolution #1441 on, 235–236
See also Cowboys
UNDP. See UN Development Program
UNESCO. See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNGCI. See UN Guards Contingent for Iraq; United Nations Guards Contingent in Iraq
UNHCR. See UN High Commission for Refugees
UNICEF. See United Nations Children’s Fund
United Arab Emirates, 241
United Nations (UN), 3, 98–99, 101, 144–146, 192, 279, 280, 291
application processing by, 52–55, 53–54(fig.)
authority v. responsibility, 136–137, 139
Baghdad interagency meeting, 43–47
Declaration of Human Rights, 294
Food and Agriculture Organization, 43
on “genocidal program” accusation, 180
Halliday’s resignation from, 163–164, 178, 180
Hussein’s relationship with, 47, 157
ignoring Iraqi non-compliance, 131
incompetence within, 63–64, 198, 255, 283
interagency stand-off, 43–46
internal criticism of, 40–41
Kurds v., 80–81
laws made by, 109
managerial culture of, 132, 133–137
-mandated international coalition, 29, 254, 279
random attacks against personnel, 98
Resolution #986, 149
Resolution #1153, 118
Resolution #1441, 237
Resolution #1500, 252
Resolution #1538, 289
Riza at helm of, 164, 183–184, 138–139, 202
rules of game for, 133–137, 214, 282, 294
sexual harassment at, 209–210
-speak, 18–19, 125, 147, 200, 201, 218
turf wars within, 194–197, 198–199, 200–206, 225
Vieira de Mello in, 239, 252–255, 258–259
Volcker Committee’s influence on, 314–315
WMD hunting in Iraq, 29, 41, 60, 70
younger staff at, 128
See also General Assembly; Oil-for-Food operation; Weapons of mass destruction; specific agency; specific personnel
United Nations Charter, 24, 43–44, 58, 262
on using force, 243–244
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 43, 74, 111
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 43, 111
United Nations Guards Contingent in Iraq (UNGCI), 81
See also Torben
United Nations Refugee Agency, 210
United Nations sanctions committee, 51
United States (U.S.), 84, 108, 237, 256, 278
American Enterprise Institute, 273
Ashcroft, 220
Berger, 162
bombing Iraq, 22, 28–29, 65–66, 92–93, 164–168
campaign to unseat Hussein, 219–220, 222–225
Congress, 4, 8–9, 12, 30, 169, 269
embroiled in blame game, 3
v. France on WMD issue, 232–234
Iraq Liberation Act of, 169
toward Iraqi civilians, 62, 65–67, 238
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 222
made in, 8–9
objectives for Iraq, 243
oil companies, 84, 269, 274, 299
Operation Desert Fox, 50, 70, 168–169
Operation Desert Storm, 19, 32, 39, 66, 97, 160
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 49, 84
Pentagon, 66
Ramadan in custody of, 279
Schultz, 240
Schwarzkopf, 156–157
“war on terror,” 219–220, 222–225
WMD as policy premise, 233–234
See also specific American companies/persons/agencies
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 262
See also UNSCOM
UN’s Office of Legal Affairs (OLA), 123
UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission), 42, 70, 108, 158, 163, 243
See also UN weapons inspectors
UN-speak, 18–19
“bring it on!”, 201
“get lost,” 125
“spying,” 218
Urbillium, 90–91
Ustinov, Peter, 316
Vatican Bank, 176
Viagra, 221
Vieira de Mello, Sergio, 239, 252–255, 258–259
De Villepin, Dominique Galouzeau, 226–227, 231–232, 237, 250
sparking anti-French sentiment, 289
Voices in the Wilderness, 174
standards of proof used by, 292
UN managerial culture revealed to, 132
UN reforms sparked by, 314–315
setting up shop, 288–290
Volvo, 290
“Vulnerable groups,” 143
VX gas (nerve agent), 108, 242, 244
Wall Street Journal, 3
War
both World Wars, 222
Iran v. Iraq, 100
“war on terror,” 219–220, 222–225
World War I, 77
See also Bombing; Weapons
Warner, Margaret, 1
Water, in Iraq, 29, 106–108, 109, 111
Weapons
biological, 41, 42, 219–220, 234, 242, 244
chemical, 41, 110–111, 168, 240
F-16 fighter jets, 73
M1 Abrams tanks, 156
Tomahawk cruise missile attack, 22, 50
See also Cowboys; Hussein, Saddam
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 29, 41–42, 60, 69–71, 118, 155–158, 163, 221, 224, 226, 235–236, 246–247
economic conditions v. hunting, 131
France v. U.S. on Iraq’s, 232–234
human dimension of war v. hunting, 4, 238
inspectors corroborate Iraq’s, 242–243
Operation Desert Fox v., 168
U.S. army’s hunting, 108
See also Bombing; Weapons
WFP. See World Food Program
Whistleblower, 1–5
WHO. See World Health Organization
Wilson, Charlie, 269
Wilson, Woodrow, 60
WMD. See Weapons of mass destruction
Wolfowitz, Paul, 222
Woodward, Bob, 222
World Food Program (WFP), 51
World Health Organization (WHO), 43 51, 88, 130
Wotton, John, 134
Yemen, 72
Yemenite v. Afghan, 146–147
Yukos, 72
Zahn, Paula, 220
Zarif, Farid, 164
Al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, 260
on democracy in Iraq, 262–263
Al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 269
Zinni, Anthony, 168
Zoroastrian Kurds, 77
Zozik Arilines, 311
Zureikat, Fawaz, 178–179