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Must Reads
Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong
by Kenneth M. Pollack Atlantic Monthly Jan/Feb 2004
A detailed account of why we were so far off in our estimates of Saddam's weapons programs.
Warriors for Hire by Peter Singer Brookings Institution
In Iraq, employees of private military firms are accounting for a growing share of the force and the casualties. Peter Singer writes that this "coalition of the billing" rather than of the "willing" cuts to the heart of the most troubling questions about the Bush administration's handling of the war.
Berlin to Baghdad: The Pitfalls of Hiring Enemy Intelligence
Washington wants to hire ex-Baathists to help rebuild Iraq. The CIA's experience using ex-Nazis to run West Germany's intelligence service should give it pause. By Timothy Naftali
Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004
Hot Documents

Report on Prewar Iraq Intelligence - From the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, July 2004. [PDF]

The Hutton Report - Britain's latest official inquiry into Iraqi pre-war intelligence.

Iraq's Constitutional Challenge, ICG Middle East Report N°19, 13 November 2003
Backgrounders
Iraq Crisis - background and analysis from the Federation of American Scientists.
U.S. Library of Congress Country Study - Iraq - includes a country profile, and sections on Iraq's geography, society, military, economy, and government. From the U.S. Library of Congress.
 
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IRAQ INDEX: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq
Brookings Institution
The Iraq Index is a statistical compilation of economic and security data. This resource will provide updated information on various criteria, including crime, telephone and water service, troop fatalities, unemployment, Iraqi security forces, oil production, and coalition troop strength.
 
Policy Research
Brookings - Iraq
Global Security - Iraq
International Crisis Group - Iraq
Rand - Iraq
 
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DiscoverySchool - Iraq
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Keepmedia: Rebuilding Iraq - realtime database of related articles
 
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