| Description |
xxiv, 262 pages : map ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. A glimpse of terror -- 2. Peace as a career -- 3. To disarm Saddam -- 4. The summons -- 5. What honeymoon? -- 6. The Russians make their move -- 7. The resistance stiffens -- 8. Kofi Annan goes to Baghdad -- 9. Road map to nowhere -- 10. The five-dollar bet -- 11. The final deception -- 12. Desert Fox and the twilight of UNSCOM -- 13. Son of UNSCOM -- 14. Conclusion. The principle of the exception |
| Summary |
The West may face no greater enemy than Saddam Hussein, and yet, as Richard Butler makes clear in The Greatest Threat, the West would rather bury its head in the Mesopotamian sands than deal with the problem. As the head of UNSCOM, the United Nations Special Commission that was supposed to regularly inspect Iraq for weapons violations after the Gulf War, Butler was the West's "sheriff" - the one person on the ground with the authority to shut the Iraqis down if he caught them cheating. And he was not the type to surrender to the Iraqis, not when he knew what was at stake. But Butler's authority was undermined behind his back. As he reveals in this outspoken, finger-pointing, newsbreaking book, Kofi Annan agreed to Hussein's outrageous demands and then claimed victory. Russia's foreign minister took secret payoffs from the Iraqis in exchange for his support. The French, eager to do business with the dictator, undercut American efforts to force Hussein to comply. And the result is that, despite Iraq's supposed defeat, Saddam Hussein has very likely resumed building nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could be used against Israel, Turkey, or even the United States. The Greatest Threat is arousing, disturbing reading for anyone interested in American foreign policy, in the breakdown of controls on weapons of mass destruction, or in the precarious state of international relations |
| Analysis |
United Nations |
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Nuclear disarmament |
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Unconventional weapons disarmament |
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International defence relations |
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Iraq |
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Chemical weapons |
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Biological weapons |
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Australian diplomats |
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Autobiography |
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Richard Butler |
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UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) |
| Notes |
Also published as: Saddam defiant |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-248) and index |
| Subject |
United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq.
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Arms control -- Verification -- Iraq.
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Security, International.
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Weapons of mass destruction -- Iraq.
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World politics -- 1989-
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123951
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| LC no. |
00029098 |
| ISBN |
1891620533 |
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1586480391 paperback |
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