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Baghdad suspends oil exports to protest
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U.N. Security Council approves revised sanctions program against Iraq
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July--
Iraq again rejects weapons inspections proposals after talks with U.N.
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September--
US President George W Bush tells skeptical
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at a UN General Assembly session to confront the "grave and gathering
danger" of Iraq - or stand aside as the US acts. In the same month
British Prime Minister Tony Blair publishes a dossier on Iraq's
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November--
UN weapons inspectors return to Iraq backed
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resolution which threatens serious consequences if Iraq is in "material
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enhanced inspection regime for Iraq's disarmament to be conducted by
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comprising a "currently accurate, full and complete declaration" of the
regime's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq denies
in the declaration that it has any weapons of mass destruction.
Listen to All Things Considered's coverage of the
release of Iraq's weapons declaration.
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in 1997, and that it "is not enough to create confidence" that Iraq has
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