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UNSCOM - Definition and Overview

United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was a United Nations organisation performing arms inspections in Iraq after the Gulf War.

Its director between 1991 and 1997 was Rolf Ekeus and from 1997 to 1999 Richard Butler. The successor of UNSCOM is the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission.

See also: Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction, Operation Rockingham.

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Example Usage of UNSCOM
IraqInquiryblog: Dowse repeats it was hoped inspections could resume so the FCO's intelligence would improve - 'our insight dropped when UNSCOM left in 1998'
IraqInquiryblog: Dr David Kelly mentioned: Dowse says he provided a rather long history of UNSCOM inspections, which then got subbed down
IraqInquiryblog: Dowse: we lost alot of insight into Iraq when UNSCOM withdrew from Iraq in 1998 - that's partly why we wanted inspectors back there #Iraq
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