UBS to hand over frozen Iraqi money

March 24, 2003 1:55 PM Switzerland�s largest bank, UBS, has said it will transfer frozen Iraqi-held deposits in the United States to US authorities. UBS said the funds, blocked in 1990 under United Nations sanctions, had been confiscated by the US Treasury and would be transferred to the US government soon. The confiscation is part of an order last week from the Treasury Department to 17 banks in the US. The total money involved, said to be about $1.74 billion (SFr2.41 billion) without interest, comes from transactions between US oil firms and the Iraqi state oil company, the UBS spokesman added. He declined to reveal how much cash was involved in UBS�s case but confirmed it was likely to be in the millions of dollars. [...] Swiss News

271454Z AUG 97SUBJ: RUSSIAN AVIACONVERSIA PORTABLE GPS AND GLONASS JAMMER SYSTEM (U) SUMMARY: (U) CONFEX - THE RUSSIAN FIRM AVIACONVERSIA MARKETED AND DISPLAYED ITS PORTABLE GPS AND GLONASS JAMMER AT THE MOSCOW AIR SHOW '97, 19-24 AUG 97, IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. THE 4-WATT JAMMER JAMS CIVILIAN AND MILITARY FREQUENCIES OF GPS AND GLONASS UP TO A RANGE OF 200 KM. PROTOTYPE AT THE SHOW - LOOKING FOR BUYERS. TEXT: 1. (U) THE REPORTING OFFICER (RO) SPOKE WITH DR. OLEG ((ANTONOV)), DIRECTOR OF AVIACONVERSIA (ADDRESS - 103009 MOSCOW, TVERSCAYA, D.27-2, OFFICE-88, TELEPHONE/FAX +095 2995454) ABOUT THE GPS/GLONASS JAMMER AT THE MOSCOW AIR SHOW '97, IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. THE JAMMER SHOWN IN ENCL 1 AND 2 IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL - THIS IS NOT A CONCEPT. DR. ANTONOV SAID THAT HIS COMPANY WAS WITHIN A WEEK OF FINALIZING THE NEXT GENERATION GPS/GLONASS JAMMER THAT REDUCES THE SIZE AND MASS OF THE JAMMER BY SLIGHTLY OVER 50 PERCENT. DR. ANTONOV SAID THAT HE HAS ALREADY RECENTLY MARKETED THE JAMMER IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SAID HE HAS SEVERAL POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS THERE. HE DECLINED TO ELABORATE FURTHER AS TO WHO MAY HAVE ALREADY CONTRACTED FOR HIS JAMMER. DR. ANTONOV SAID THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE SIGNAL JAMMERS WAS BEYOND THE TECHNICAL ABILITY OF HIS MIDDLE EASTERN CUSTOMERS. HE SAID THAT BESIDES RUSSIA, ONLY FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY, ITALY, SWEDEN/NORWAY, AND POSSIBLY ISRAEL ARE ABLE TO BUILD THESE SOPHISTICATED SIGNAL GENERATORS. TO INSURE THE BOX WAS ACTUALLY FUNCTIONAL, THE RO ASKED FOR DR. ANTONOV TO DEMONSTRATE THE SYSTEM. DR. ANTONOV AGREED TO AND BEGAN TO CONNECT THE POWER SUPPLY. WHEN TH RO ASKED IF HIS JAMMING MAY INTERFERE WITH AIRCRAFT IN THE VICINITY, DR. ANTONOV SAID THAT WHILE SOME PILOTS USE GPS AS PART OF THEIR NAVIGATION PACKAGE, GPS IS NOT LISTED INTERNATIONALLY ANYWHERE AS AN AIRCRAFT COMPONENT AND INDICATED ITS NAVIGATION USE CONSEQUENTLY DID NOT NEED TO BE RESPECTED. AT THIS POINT, THE RO DID NOT WANT TO BECOME POTENTIALLY PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY AVIATION MISHAP THAT MIGHT RESULT. INSTEAD OF TURNING ON THE JAMMER, THE RO ASKED DR. ANTONOV TO UNSCREW THE BACK ASSEMBLY AND HEAT SINK SO THAT THE RO COULD INSPECT THE COMPONENTS. DR. ANTONOV TOLD THE RO THAT THE JAMMER HAD TWO MODULES. THE FIRST MODULE CONTAINED FOUR SIGNAL GENERATORS THAT INDIVIDUALLY JAMMED THE FREQUENCIES OF CIVILIAN GPS, MILITARY GPS, CIVILIAN GLONASS, AND MILITARY GLONASS. AS DR. ANTONOV WAS STARTING TO UNSCREW THE PLATES, THE RO KNEW THAT HE WAS LOOKING AT A FUNCTIONAL DEVICE. 2. (U) THE GPS/GLONASS JAMMER HAS AN OUTPUT POWER OF 4 WATTS AND CAN EFFECTIVELY DENY USE OF GPS IN AN AREA RANGING AS FAR AS 150-200 KM. DR. ANTONOV SAID THAT HE HAS ALREADY WORKED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RUSSIAN MILITARY WITH DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS FOR HIS JAMMER SO THAT IT CAN BE USED TO DIRECTIONALLY JAM WHILE MAINTAINING SAFE AREAS FOR FRIENDLY FORCES TO ACCESS GPS OR GLONASS. THE COEFFICIENT OF ANTENNA AMPLIFICATION RANGES FROM 2-5, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF ANTENNA USED. THE ELECTRICAL INPUT SUPPLY IS EITHER BATTERY OR DC LINE VOLTAGE. DR. ANTONOV PRODUCED BOTH 15 V AND 6 V SUPPLIES THAT RAN OFF OF 230 VOLTS LINE INPUT. THE JAMMER DISSIPATES 25 WATTS WHEN IN USE AND WEIGHS BETWEEN 8-12 KG WITHOUT BATTERIES, DEPENDING ON THE CONFIGURATION. IN THE FRONTAL VIEW OF THE JAMMER SHOWN IN BOTH ENCL 1 AND 2, TWO KNOBS CAN BE SEEN AT THE BASE. THE LEFT KNOB IS FOR FREQUENCY MODULATION, AND RANGES FROM 0-6 MHZ. THE RIGHT KNOB IS FOR "VELOCITY CHANGE OF MODULATION" AND RANGES FROM 44-270 HZ. A PORTION OF THE ABOVE DATA IS CONTAINED IN ENCL 3, WHICH IS IN RUSSIAN. THE RO HAD ENCL 3 LOOSELY TRANSLATED, VERBALLY. 3. (U) DR. ANTONOV SAID HIS NEXT TESTING WOULD BE ON AN AIRBORNE PLATFORM, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY. HE SAID THAT, IN A PREVIOUS TEST, FOUR TYPES OF GPS AND GLONASS DEVICES, TO INCLUDE ONE PRODUCED BY MAGELLAN, WERE SUBJECTED TO JAMMING AT REMOTE DISTANCES AND ALL THE NAVIGATION DEVICES FAILED IN THE FACE OF THE JAMMING. HE SAID THAT HE HAD STRONG INDICATIONS THAT HIS TEAM, WORKING WITH THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, SUCCESSFULLY JAMMED A DEVICE WITH P-CODE CAPABILITY. WHEN THE RO ASKED FOR MORE DETAIL ON THIS, DR. ANTONOV WOULD NOT ELABORATE. ac11.org

Editorial: Lies, Lies and More Lies

24 March 2003 Yesterday the US-led army invading Iraq � without UN approval, without international backing � woke up to the reality of ground combat. They learned first-hand that the Iraqi people do not want to be �liberated� by them, and that the Iraqi Army is likely to fight to the very last. Resistance continues in Umm Qasr, a small port city just inside Iraq which the US claimed to have taken days ago; and independent reports say that in Nassiriyah up to 20 American armored personnel carriers and tanks were taken out by the Iraqis. What is not in doubt is that dozens of American soldiers may have been killed yesterday. More than a dozen were taken prisoner. The bodies of the dead were shown on Iraqi television. So were the frightened faces of Iraq�s first prisoners of war. Those who have been getting their news exclusively from US networks probably have not seen these images. Priority was given to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose denials slowly turned as the day progressed into grudging admissions. Rumsfeld finally commanded the airwaves alone, after having bullied several major American networks � CNN, Fox and MSNBC � into not showing the images of the US prisoners of war and the dead. He did this by referring to the Geneva Convention. Footage of the captured soldiers constituted �propaganda�, Rumsfeld asserted. At the same time, he managed to cast doubt on the fact that the captured were indeed American. Rumsfeld�s newfound affection for the Geneva Convention is remarkable, given that there were images broadcast continuously the day before on US news networks of long lines of Iraqi prisoners surrendering, in US President George W. Bush�s words, �gleefully, enthusiastically�. The US does not believe that the prisoners now being held at Guantanamo Bay are prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. Pictures of the men there, shackled and living in cages, were distributed by the Bush administration to the world�s media. The US Army yesterday said that it considers the images of the US prisoners of war shown on Iraqi TV �disgusting.� For those who have seen them, they invoke a complex mixture of emotions, including pity and surprise; but disgust is not among them. Real war is an ugly business, and the US is now engaged in a real, complex war. All the signs are that the Iraqis do not want the Americans on their land, and are not going to give them as a present their vast oil reserves. The war, it would appear, is going to be protracted, and things are going to get messier. The messier things get, the greater will be the need for clear, objective coverage from those who are covering it. The US troops are fighting in the name of the US government. The US media, however, are not a paid-up, fully trained extra battalion of the US Army whose job it is to help the troops to victory. Rather, their job is to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth. So far, they have told little but lies. Arab News

The prisoners, who identified themselves as being from the 507th maintenance company, were wearing military uniforms. They looked dazed and frightened. They were asked to give their views on the war. Asked why he had come to Iraq, one said he "was told to come here". He said he had come to fix "broken stuff". Asked why he was fighting Iraqis, he said: "They don't bother me, I don't bother them." He said he did not "want to kill anybody". When asked how many officers were in his unit, he replied: "I don't know sir." Asked why he had come to Iraq, another said: "I follow orders." http://www.a42.de:2342/filez/aljazeera.mpg

Consider the GPS jammer that 22-year-old Romain Lievin built while a student at France's ESISAR-INPG Grenoble engineering school. Lievin's GPS jammer may eventually be available commercially. Here's a photo of one of his prototype circuit boards.One "hobby" GPS-denial system that I found on the Web uses a Motorola MC145151 PLL-based frequency synthesizer, a Micronetics M3500-1324S VCO module, and a Fujitsu MB506 divide-by-256 pre-scaler. The VCO feeds the pre-scaler, generating a 1.575 GHz signal that's divided down and routed to one port on the PLL's comparator. The reference is an oscillator running an El Cheapo 10 MHz crystal. Ultimately a signal is derived that's in the audio range, where it's easy to deal with. No strip-lines in that domain, eh? Augmenting the PLL is a hash generator based on Zener diode noise. A 12-cent 2N2222 transistor amplifies the noise. This develops broadband crud out to 100 MHz. In this home-workshop GPS jammer, the hash is filtered and then boosted by a ubiquitous National Semi LM386 audio amplifier IC, and then mixed with the VCO's error-tune signal. The result? RF looking like random noise centered on 1.57542 GHz. [...] Russian Capitalism At Work Is this improbable? Maybe so, but my ears perked up when I caught a blip on the evening TV news about portable GPS jammers that are being sold to the Iraqis by the Russians. Presumably these units come from the Moscow-based Aviaconversiya Ltd. electronics company. The company has been flaunting its handheld GPS jammers at military hardware and air shows since 1999. Claimed to be able to jam American GPS and Russian GLONASS satellite transmissions, the Aviaconversiya emitters strike me as true spy-vs.-spy products. By the way, a Web search reveals that Aviaconversiya is on a list of hundreds of U.S. Department of Defense contractors whose contracts exceed $25,000. (Curious, don't you think?) So just what does Aviaconversiya's little battery-powered $40,000 box do? Well, for starters, it delivers a hefty 8 W of microwave RF into its high-gain Yagi antenna. That gives a user possible GPS denial out to hundreds of miles. If fitted with an omnidirectional antenna instead of the Yagi beam, the Aviaconversiya system is touted as capable of preventing a cruise missile from finding its mark. http://www.chipcentre.com

Aviaconversiya

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US accuses Russians of aiding Iraqi defence

The United States believes Russian technicians are helping Iraq jam crucial satellite signals needed to guide bombs and military aircraft as US, British and Australian troops advance on Baghdad, a senior US official said. The official says Washington has evidence personnel from a Russian firm are in Iraq attempting to help set up and operate a sophisticated system that interferes with the US global positioning technology. "The system is complex and there is evidence that they (Russian technicians) have been trying to bring this system online and help the Iraqis operate it," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "We are extremely upset and have raised this at very senior levels with the Russians." The official stressed there is no indication the Russian Government was involved in the efforts but said Moscow had been "extremely unhelpful" in addressing the US concerns. The official confirmed a report in The Washington Post newspaper that said complaints about the sales of the jamming devices by the Moscow-based firm, Aviaconversiya, began in June 2002. At the time, the official said, the Russians denied the company even existed despite the fact it maintained an Internet site and was the subject of extensive media coverage in Russia. "It was ridiculous but now it's gone beyond that," the official said. "It is grotesque." Google Sez

There was ignorance to contend with everywhere. It came in the form of journalists who were simply out of their depth, as when one BBC presenter confused Friday with �Ramadan�. He then went on to confuse rain in northern Iraq with a sandstorm in the south. Of course, the cultivation of comprehensive ignorance is part of the United States� campaign to limit access to information to the absolute minimum. In the name of security, �embeds� may know what is going on, but they are forbidden from reporting it. And those reporters working independently of the US military are kept far away from events � their passes revoked, their movements limited, at the whim of a commander. The Committee for the Protection of Journalists yesterday announced that the Al-Rashid Hotel is Baghdad � a makeshift base for Western journalists � was being evacuated after news filtered through that the US was likely to bomb it. [...] Areabnews.com

The design of TV news in this situation is next to useless. There are multiple feeds coming from different sources, and the directors choose to fill the screen with huge text bullet points, and pig ignorant talking heads instead of showing us what we need to see. You can get more information, more efficiently and fluidly from your desktop, and its this idea that needs to be translated directly to news during a crisis with multiple news sources. The presenters are largely irrelevant as visual elements, as are the pundits. They should be relegated to voice only, as is the case on Euro News. Each of the multiple feeds that are being collected should be shown live in a series of boxes; when one becomes "hot" it should then fill the screen. A persistent box for bullet points and a very thin scrolling headline should be at the bottom of the screen. In this way, the viewer misses nothing, can choose its own focus of attention, and get the hot feed in high res when needed. All of this dull explanation of munitions can be done on the web; it is absolutely pointless to keep repeating the specs of the bombs on television. This was actually done while the live search for a downed pilot was continuing in *real time*. AJN has the pace right; they cut to places all over the world, and all throughout Iraq. They are at RAF Fairford when the B52s take off, they are in Pakistan to cover the demonstrations there - in fact, they seem to be everywhere at once, while the totality of western media is locked in the studio, forced to take feeds from AJN! AJN is doing the job that western media *should* be doing. They are doing it with 100% efficiency, and lightning speed. Welcome to the future, where the west is relegated to the sidelines as an impotent witness while the "Third World" leaps forward to become the dominant culture and disseminator of truth in the world. Incredibly, the western media always cautions viewers when they are retransmitting "Arab TV", the subtext being "Arabs are liars by nature". This is being said of LIVE FEEDS and not EDITED FOOTAGE. How can a LIVE FEED be a lie? Do they really think that no one is paying attention when they say these things?!

Al Jazeera news, which you can see live on the internet shows regular news conferences by General Al Sahaf and other senior Iraqi staff. While these conferences are going on, each of the news channels, NBC, Sky News, CNN, Fox, Euronews, all show identical, meaningless feeds of dust from the "embedded" journalists and cameras. Iraqi TV is still on the air, and being uplinked / streamed live. It is never cut to by the western news, never re-transmitted, even when it is showing an Iraqi press conference that is being violently shaken by the Shock and Awe bombing. You can watch all of these, non-embedded (free) live feeds online, in real-time. It is clearly pointless to watch western news, since they are locked in to the embedded system. If you are not on broadband, you can even PAY for Al Jazeera news and add it to your Sky package. AJN, on the Astra bird, is giving a totally different picture from the embedded news on the western channels. AJN is showing the many casualties, the destroyed buildings, and is cutting to every Iraqi news conference. It is also conducting interviews with British and American Generals, and re transmitting the news conferences from US Command and Control. To the further shame of the western news agencies, AJN is now clearly the nearest thing to an unbiased news source if you want to find info on this conflict. CNN was kicked out for a reason; you can see this reason yourself when you compare and contrast the coverage of AJN and CNN. There is no excuse for this restriction of what is really happening. AJN, if they were giving away any operational information, would be shut down instantly. They are not doing this. There is no reason why people in the middle east should get the full picture, the blood, guts and devastation, correspondents on the ground all over Iraq and in Baghdad, and everyone in the west get only sanitized "slices" and blurry green 1980s CRT images of what is going on. This divergence of information (and therefore perception); the far east getting the full horror and facts, and the west being effectively blindfolded will only add to the cultural problems in the future; no one in the USA for example, will understand the rage of the Arab world over this, because they will never have seen the carnage unleashed by this action, which every Arab speaking person will have seen again and again. The Arab world appear to bee even more hysterical and irrational, because they will have been properly traumatized by the images of war, which all westerners will be escaping. Once again, western journalists and news organizations have completely failed to do their jobs, and are not only facilitating this total insanity, but are making sure that the misunderstanding between eastern and western cultures is more pronounced than ever before. Well done you FOOLS.

Thank you, President Bush

Paulo Coelho Thank you, great leader George W. Bush. Thank you for showing everyone what a danger Saddam Hussein represents. Many of us might otherwise have forgotten that he had used chemical weapons against his own people, against the Kurds and against the Iranians. Hussein is a bloodthirsty dictator and one of the clearest expressions of evil in today's world. But this is not my only reason for thanking you. During the first two months of 2003, you have shown the world a great many other important things and, therefore, deserve my gratitude. So, remembering a poem I learned as a child, I want to say thank you. Thank you for showing everyone that the Turkish people and their Parliament are not for sale, not even for 26 billion dollars. Thank you for revealing to the world the gulf that exists between the decisions made by those in power and the wishes of the people. Thank you for making it clear that neither Jos� Mar�a Aznar nor Tony Blair give the slightest weight to or show the slightest respect for the votes they received. Aznar is perfectly capable of ignoring the fact that 90% of Spaniards are against the war, and Blair is unmoved by the largest public demonstration to take place in England in the last thirty years. Thank you for making it necessary for Tony Blair to go to the British Parliament with a fabricated dossier written by a student ten years ago, and present this as 'damning evidence collected by the British Secret Service'. Thank you for allowing Colin Powell to make a complete fool of himself by showing the UN Security Council photos which, one week later, were publicly challenged by Hans Blix, the Inspector responsible for disarming Iraq. Thank you for adopting your current position and thus ensuring that, at the plenary session, the French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin's anti-war speech was greeted with applause - something, as far as I know, that has only happened once before in the history of the UN, following a speech by Nelson Mandela. Thank you too, because, after all your efforts to promote war, the normally divided Arab nations, at their meeting in Cairo during the last week in February, were, for the first time, unanimous in their condemnation of any invasion. Thank you for your rhetoric stating that 'the UN now has a chance to demonstrate its relevance', a statement which made even the most reluctant countries take up a position opposing any attack on Iraq. Thank you for your foreign policy which provoked the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, into declaring that in the 21st century, 'a war can have a moral justification', thus causing him to lose all credibility. Thank you for trying to divide a Europe that is currently struggling for unification; this was a warning that will not go unheeded. Thank you for having achieved something that very few have so far managed to do in this century: the bringing together of millions of people on all continents to fight for the same idea, even though that idea is opposed to yours. Thank you for making us feel once more that though our words may not be heard, they are at least spoken - this will make us stronger in the future. Thank you for ignoring us, for marginalising all those who oppose your decision, because the future of the Earth belongs to the excluded. Thank you, because, without you, we would not have realised our own ability to mobilise. It may serve no purpose this time, but it will doubtless be useful later on. Now that there seems no way of silencing the drums of war, I would like to say, as an ancient European king said to an invader: 'May your morning be a beautiful one, may the sun shine on your soldiers' armour, for in the afternoon, I will defeat you.' Thank you for allowing us - an army of anonymous people filling the streets in an attempt to stop a process that is already underway - to know what it feels like to be powerless and to learn to grapple with that feeling and transform it. So, enjoy your morning and whatever glory it may yet bring you. Thank you for not listening to us and not taking us seriously, but know that we are listening to you and that we will not forget your words. Thank you, great leader George W. Bush. Thank you very much. March 8, 2003

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-- Early on, CBS continued its suspect decision making and opted for NCAA basketball instead of war coverage, giving television surfers the incongruous look of embedded reporter stories on one channel and face-painted cheerleaders on CBS. It must be driving Dan Rather nuts. -- In addition to sometimes revealing videophone reporting, this is turning out to be the war of improved graphics, as moving maps, virtual flights over Iraq's landscape and numerous sophisticated analysis of planes, tanks, helicopter and ships used in battle are on display at the networks. -- A good argument could be made that the networks and cable channels have gone to all-war, all-the-time in their coverage -- at the expense of other news around the country -- but each found time for at least two diversions: finance and anti-war protests. In one of the strangest combinations you might see, several channels kept the stock market numbers running in the bottom right hand corner. During the "shock and awe" segment, those number spun upward. [...] My emphasis. SF Gate

More than 1,600 people have been arrested in San Francisco while taking part in protests against the war[...] The Guardian

'Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?'

This list of really astonishing facts keeps popping into my mailbox, questions like 'How much is spent on military budgets per year worldwide?' take a look for yourself. I would greatly appreciate your help in verifying the information. Please email to me at: staff@anitaroddick.com Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq? Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II? A: 86 million Military Budgets: Q: How much is spent on military budgets per year worldwide? A: Over $900 billion Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S.? A: 50% Q: What percent of U.S. military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according the the UN? A: 10% (that's about $40 billion, the amount initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan) Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq? A: 11 years Q: Were the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: No Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999? A: 20 million Chemical & Biological Weapons: Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons? A: Since the early 1980s Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological weapons on their own? A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the U.S. government, along with Britain and private corporations Q: Did the U.S. government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran? A: No Q: How many gallons of Agent Orange did America use in Vietnam? A: 17 million Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War? A: 40 tons Q: What, according to the UN, was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994? A: 700% Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and the September 11th terrorist attacks? A: No Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War? A: 35,000 Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks with plows mounted on the front? A: 6,000 Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991? A: 80% Nuclear Weapons: Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons? A: 8 Q:How many nuclear warheads does Iraq have? A: 0 Q: How many nuclear warheads does the U.S. have? A: Over 10,000 Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons? A: The U.S. Civilian Deaths and UN Sanctions: Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and exports? A: 12 years Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)? A: 38 Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)? A: 131 (that's an increase of 345%) Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions? A: 1.5 million Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997? A: 750,000 Inspections: Q: Who said that by December 1998, "Iraq had, in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history"? A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998? A: 300 Q: How many of these inspections had problems? A: 5 Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ? A: Yes Q: In 1998, how much of Iraq's post-1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled? A: 90% Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in? A: Yes Human Rights Violations: Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988? A: 5,000 Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time? A: 0