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Iraq resources
| This page is a collection of sites that look promising for
subjects we might need in researching and especially checking stories
about war in Iraq and its aftermath. It's a work in progress: If you know
of better sources, or if you have problems with one of these, please let
Pete Zicari, Tom Gaumer or one of the news research staff know, so we can
make updates. Thanks! |
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Official reports and documents (Thanks to Betsy
Sullivan)
White House
CIA report: 10/2002 assessment: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm
United
Nations
11/8/2002 Security Council resolution No. 1441:
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/15016.htm
British government reports: 9/2002 dossier: http://www.pm.gov.uk/files/pdf/iraqdossier.pdf
1/2003
how Iraq hides stuff: http://www.pm.gov.uk/files/pdf/Iraq.pdf
UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
(current group of arms inspectors) main Web site.: http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/
UNSCOM reports: http://www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/s/990125/index.html
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Comprehensive
Regional information
- Library of
Congress country studies Outline of history and facts. A good place to
start
- CIA
Factbook: Map and short facts.
- World News Network
News and some background.
- Columbia University's site ...
Gulf2000 is not directly on point for Iraq, but has maps and a large amount of
background on the whole region, and many links to other possible sources.
- University of
Texas Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Austin, more information,
including maps.
- American Kurdish Information
Center -- The American Kurdish Information Network aims to fulfill two
needs: to hold a mirror to the events that are taking place in the Kurdish
regions of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria and to give Americans access to
collected materials on the subject.
- Accessible experts
at Duke University. Other possibilities: Dr.
Stephen Zunes of the University of San Francisco and Richard Falk, professor of International
Law at Princeton University (609-258-4864).
- Ascribe.org offers a
list of knowledgeable people who are associated with various colleges around
the country. Click on a topic at the left side of the page for lists of people
you might want to call. A few items require an IRE membership to retrieve.
Several people around the PD have IRE memberships and can help you.
- CWRU's
Faculty Experts list includes possible sources on Israeli/Palestinian
issues and middle eastern archaeology, among many other things. (This list
will grow).
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Search tools and other:
- Albawaba.com
web search: Arab Web search, has links to Iraqi sites noted here, but also
some offbeat things such as a site on music. Here's main page.
- Iraqlinks.com: A general-interest
site run by a Web design firm in Lebanon.
- New York University's info
for journalists seems to present mainly news stories we can get via Nexis
or the AP, but it's recommended by ...
- University
of Michigan's Near East pages: Exhaustive, like many University of
Michigan sites. A mother lode if you're looking for something hard to find.
- Library
of California's collection of online articles on Iraq. You can enter a
more specific search if you need.
- Terrorism
library Sizeable collection of links maintained at Boston College. Easy to
read.
- Gary Price's Resource
Shelf: Web resources on all topics, but you can search at lower left for
"iraq." The result will be very specific material from heavyweight
sources,possibly more than you need to know.
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Translations from and to Arabic:
- Al Misbar.com
Translation page requires Arabic alphabet not on our computers, but site is
also a portal.
- Transliterations:
We may be better off finding a consensus of media spellings than trying to
roll our own, but this is one of a number of sites on the subject.
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Images:
"Live" images can give you an unexpected sense
of a place. I can't find webcams from Iraq itself. A couple from the region,
plus a satellite, give you a sense of a place that's nothing at all like
Ohio:
Dubai
tourism:... United
Arab Emirates ... Indian weather
satellite includes Arabian peninsula. You can see clouds, anyway ... Western Wall, Jerusalem. Dawn there is
about 11:30 p.m. here in winter.
Maps
Various maps at the University of Texas. Includes street maps.
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Other voices
- Iraq Journal Democracy Now!, an
independent radio and TV news hour on Pacifica radio stations as well as other
public radio stations coordinates this collection of reports. It includes
video, audio, and print articles, (free to nonprofit media; commercial media
are asked to pay to use reports, but can quote with attribution).
- Middle
eastern news A well-researched guide to Middle East news sources compiled
by a pro-Palestinian activist.
- The
Guardian Online The Guardian's (Manchester, England) view of the world.
Generally not pro-U.S.
- Iraqi mission to the U.N.
- EPN
World Reporter This is a search request that should point you to EPN World
Reporter's Iraq info. Strip off the request test to go to home page.
- Antiwar.com Highly partisan site has
extensive links to other partisans; it has potential for checking names and
making connections you might not notice from the middle of the road.
- Electronic Iraq Partisan
site that quotes international newspapers for a different slant on events.
- ZMag:
One of the biggest progressive sites.
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USAF.com A source
of pictures of planes, for identification. We have Jane's books in the News
Research Center, too.
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U.S. Army Official site,
not too useful, but here are
lists
of bases and units
Islam
Muslim Answers:
Religious argument in defense of Islam vs. Christianity. May help identify
sensitive questions. Site gives an impression of the passionate feelings with
these topics can carry.
Al-Islam.org
... Considerably less polemic.
The Qu'ran and
more Religious tracts and translations.
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