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6. What do the UN introduce in 1996?

  • Oil for Food
  • Unlimited oil exports
  • More WMD inspectors

7. What does Saddam fear about UNSCOM?

  • They are working with the CIA
  • They are finding more WMD
  • They are corrupt

8. Who does Bush And encourage to overthrow Saddam?

  • Shiites and Westerners
  • Kurds and Shiites
  • Sunnis and Kurds

9. How big is Iraq's army in the 1990s?

  • 350,000 - still the biggest in the Arab world
  • 300,000 - second and biggest in the Arab world

10. How many countries were in the UN coalition?

  • 34
  • 38
  • 37

11. Why do the Iranian government help the Kurds in Iraq?

  • They want Iran to strengthen under Kurdish control
  • They want to weaken Saddam's rule
  • They want the Kurds to move to Iran

12. What percentage of the Iraqi population are Kurdish?

  • 25%
  • 20%
  • 10%

13. When is oil discovered in Kuwait?

  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1960s

14. What UN resolution immediately demands Iraq withdraw from Kuwait?

  • 642
  • 660
  • 678

15. Why do the US then lead their forces into Iraq?

  • Saddam used WMD on Western prisoners
  • Saddam had torched Kuwait's oil wells
  • Saddam was limiting oil supplies

16. What resolution gives a deadline to withdraw of 15th January 1991?

  • 678
  • 660
  • 642

17. What is the problem in 1988-1990 with Saddam's army?

  • They blame him for the defeat in the war
  • They are moving to join Iran's forces
  • They are not strong enough

18. Who claimed he had been given the job of hiding WMD?

  • Saddam's son-in-law
  • Chemical Ali
  • Al-Zawahiri

19. How much of it's food did Iraq import?

  • 70%
  • 50%
  • 60%

20. When do Britain withdraw from Kuwait?

  • 1960s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s