Preface to the new edition -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Iraq and surrounding regions -- Introduction -- 1. A glimpse of terror -- 2. Peace as a career -- 3. To disarm Saddam -- 4. The summons -- 5. What honeymoon? -- 6. The Russians make their move -- 7. The resistance stiffens -- 8. Kofi Annan goes to Baghdad -- 9. Road map to nowhere -- 10. The five-dollar bet -- 11. The final deception -- 12. Desert Fox and the twilight of UNSCOM -- 13. Sons of UNSCOM -- 14. Conclusion: the principle of the exception -- Notes on sources -- Index.
Summary
This book is a record of the incomplete attempt by the United Nations Security Council to disarm Saddam Hussein of his weapons of mass destruction in the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
