02797nam a22003017a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001700102041000800119050002900127100002800156245008900184246004900273260005900322300004900381500002000430505041100450520139800861600003402259610005602293650003002349650004202379650003402421650004002455BJBSDDR20260824115012.0ta260709s2023    cou||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781955055703  a195505570X  bengcBJBSDDR  aeng14a414 DS 79.755bE36i 20231 aEkéus, Rolf, d1935- 10aIraq disarmed : bthe story behind the story of the fall of Saddam / cRolf Ekéus 30aStory behind the story of the fall of Saddam  aBoulder, Colorado : bLynne Rienner Publishers, c2023  axiii, 306 pages : billustrations ; c24 cm   aIncludes index.0 aIraq: Revolution, Oil, And War -- The Building Of UNSCOM -- Moving To Action -- The Map And The Reality -- Long-term Monitoring And Verification -- The Saddam Clause -- Secrets And Lies -- Hussein Kamel's Defection -- Working With Israel -- Is The Job Done? -- Say Goodbye To The Weapons -- On The Path To Disaster -- The End Of UNSCOM, The Beginning Of UNMOVIC, And The Second Iraq War -- Iraq's Catch-22.  a"The quest to disarm Iraq took place between two wars―one justified and right, the other a dreadful mistake, a violation of international law that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths." With these unvarnished words, Rolf Ekéus begins his political-thrilleresque story of the disarmament of Iraq―and the machinations that ultimately led to the fall of Saddam Hussein and the rise of ISIS.

After Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and the war that followed, the UN Security Council ruled that Iraq must rid itself of all weapons of mass destruction. The difficult, politically sensitive, and dangerous task of accomplishing this rested with the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM), led by Ekéus, one of Sweden's most seasoned diplomats. This was a radical experiment in UN governance―essentially conveying to one individual the power to conduct a disarmament program, with oversight only by the Security Council.

What followed were a succession of tense conversations with the Iraqi leadership, often-dangerous inspections, complex destruction processes, negotiations with Security Council representatives, and diplomatic maneuvering by world leaders. The recounting of these events lies at the heart of Ekéus's personal narrative of disarmament history in the making, a narrative that adds substantially to the evidence that UNSCOM's mission was successful and the 2003 war clearly illegal.14aHussein, Saddam, d1937-2006.24aComisión Especial de las Naciones Unidas (UNSCOM) 4aDesarme xVerificación  0aArmas de destrucción masiva zIrak  4aCrisis Iraq-Kuwait, 1990-1991 4aGuerra de Irak, 2003-2011 xCausas