Re: UN resolutions and Desert Fox (98) and Sept 96attacks on Iraq

[e. ahmet tonak]

According to the following document from MERIP, the US and Britain have  referred to UNSC 688 to justify their periodic bombing.  In the forthcoming issue of MERIP Marc Lynch of Williams College will have an article on the "Using and Abusing the UN,  Redux" (December).

http://www.merip.org/iraq_backgrounder_102202/iraq_bckground_merip_screes.pdf

ken hanly wrote:

Were there ever any specific UN resolutions giving authority for these
attacks? Or were they just carried out unilaterally by the US (and UK) to
punish Iraq for its "transgressions"?

Cheers, Ken Hanly




  

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