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The following links are external. MENIC does not maintain these sites, and is not responsible for their content.
Interim Transitional Government / Coalition Provisional Authoirity:
- Coalition Provisional Authority - Official website of the transitional authority. Provides information on the work of the CPA, the Iraqi ministries and the Office of Human Rights and Transitional Justice, including contact addresses, documents, budget, daily news and press information. With a biography and speeches of Presidential Envoy to Iraq and Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority Paul Bremer, and links for related organizations and programmes.
- Central Bank of Iraq - Includes information on the daily dollar auctions, the governor, and the rebuilding of Iraq's financial architecture.
- Embassy of Australia in Baghdad
- Embassy of the United States in Baghdad
- Iraq Project Contracting Office - contracting for and delivering services, supplies, and infrastructure identified within the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF)
- Ministry of Health - Offers an overview on the health care system in the country. Includes news and a monthly newsletter.
- Ministry of Trade - Offers news, ministerial instructions and press releases.
- Al Jazeera: Iraq Under Occupation - collection of articles, editorials, and resources from the Arabic news network's English language website
- Amnesty International: Iraq - the human rights group's collection of position papers on recent events in Iraq
- CNN.com: War in Iraq - collection of news articles and resources from CNN about the conflict
- Members of the Iraq Governing Council - Profiles from BBC online
- The New York Times: The Struggle for Iraq - a collection of articles and resources on the war in Iraq (requires free registration)
- Occupation Watch - website established by a coalition of groups opposing the U.S. occupation and dedicated to "monitoring the economic and reconstruction policies under occupation, including the activities of international corporations, and advocate for the Iraqis' right to control their own resources."
- Rebuilding Iraq - U.S. Department of Commerce site featuring links and news related to the reconstruction effort in post-war Iraq
Iraqi Political Parties and Groups:
- Assyrian Democratic Movement - representative body of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac community in Iraq.
- The Constitutional Monarchy
Movement ARA ENG -
Supports the restoration of the monarchy destroyed in 1958. Provides a biography
of Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein, information on the goals of the movement, press
releases and links for related articles.
- The Faili Kurds ARA ENG
- Iraqi Communist Party ARA ENG FRA SVE
- Iraqi Forum for Democracy- a non-profit political action group that believes in non-violent means to achieve its aims.
- Islamic Dawa Party ARA - Shi'i Islamic party
- Islamic Dawa Party ARA - Shi'i Islamist party
- Iraqi National Accord ARA ENG
- Iraqi National Coalition ARA ENG - a coalition of anti-Baathist groups working to establish a democratic Iraq
- Iraqi National Congress
- Iraqi National Front ARA ENG
- Iraqi National Party ARA
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Iraqi Turkman Front
- Kurdish Democratic Party --
Features information about the Party, its publications, activities, Radio Voice
of Kurdistan and Kurdistan TV both run by KDP. Also includes information about
Kurdistan National Assembly, Kurdistan Women Union (KWU), and Kurdish culture.
- Kurdistan Islamic Union
- Kurdistan Toiler's Party KUR
- Movement Sacred National Defense ARA ENG
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan --
A political party aiming to achieve self-determination for the Kurdish people
in Iraq. The site includes news, publications, folklore and music.
- The Supreme Council for Islamic
Revolution in Iraq ARA ENG --
Official website of the Shi'i party
- The Socialist Party of Kurdistan ENG GER KUR TUR
- Turkoman People's Party ENG FRA KUR TUR
- Worker Communist Party of Iraq ARA ENG KUR
UN Monitoring and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
- IAEA Iraq Nuclear Verification Office
- Iraq Country Page - U.S. Department of State
- Iraq: Failing to Disarm - report from the U.S. Department of State
- IraqResearch -- online depository of documents and information related to the ongoing conflict between the United States, the United Nations and Iraq
- Iraq Special Collection - features reports and analysis on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. From the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
- Iraq Special Weapons Guide - presents details of the reported state of Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs.
- Iraq WMD Dossier Statement - from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (PDF) - features the text of the British government's assessment of Iraq's weapons programs.
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs - features the text of a October 2002 CIA report. Includes information on Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological, and ballistic missile programs.
- Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs U.S. State Department white paper, released February 13, 1998.
- UN Iraq Page
- United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
- UN Office of the Iraq Programme "Oil for Food"
Other Resources on Politics and Government in Iraq:
- After Saddam Hussein: Winning a Peace if it Comes to War by Ray Salvatore Jennings. Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, February 2003
- Between Impediment and Advantage - Saddam's Iraq by Amatzia Baram. Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, October 2003
- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Crisis in Iraq - extensive collection of articles, analysis, links, information on the situation with an emphasis on reconstruction and nation-building efforts.
- Council on Foreign Relations: Iraq Resource Center - includes articles, publications, interviews, transcripts and videos, as well as a timeline for events in Iraq, CFR experts, background information and related links.
- Establishing the Rule of Law in Iraq Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, April 2003
- Global Terrorism After the Iraq War Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, October 2003
- Iraq Report - from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Iraq Research and Documentation Project --
- A multi-media database on the government, politics, and civil society of
modern Iraq, including government documents, maps, citizen testimonies and
other reference materials. From Harvard University.
- Iraq Under Sanctions --
Articles on sanctions, Iraq's relations with its neighbors, Saddam Hussein's
family and the ruling elite in the country.
- Islamic Politics in Iraq After Saddam Hussein by Graham E. Fuller. Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, August 2003
- Muslims, Islam, and Iraq - Maintained by Dr. Alan Godlas at the University of Southern Georgia, this site's purpose is to inform the public in a scholarly manner both about Islam and Muslims in Iraq, as well as about the relationship of the war in Iraq to Islam and Muslims, including Shi'ites, Kurdish Sunnis, and Arab Sunnis. Excellent "who's-who" section for beginners.
- Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf by Daniel Byman and Jerrold Green (PDF files at rand.org)
- The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq by Ray Salvatore Jennings. Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, May 2003
- Thinking Out Loud: Policies Toward Iraq Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, February 1999
- Would an Invasion of Iraq Be a "Just War"? Abstract online as HTML; full text PDF available for download. Published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, January 2003
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