| A | B |
| humanitarian | Supporting human rights and decency |
| coercion | forced to do something |
| militia | army of civilians |
| rendition | sending prisonr to other country for torture |
| P.O.W. | prisoner of war |
| Baath Party | Saddam Hussein's organization |
| embargo | blocking trade |
| OPEC | organization that determines oil suppy and prices |
| U.N. Resolution 660 | Condemned Iraqi invasion of Kuwait |
| U.N. Resolution 661 | Placed embargo on Iraq as result of Kuwaiti invasion |
| UNSC | United Nations Security Council |
| UNSCOM | responsible for finding weapons in Iraq |
| ICC | Respoinsible for trying war criminals |
| insurgent | person who opposes those in power |
| Geneva Conventions | International humanitarian lawss |
| Abu Ghraib | Prison in Iraq |
| Kurd | Ethnicity in the North of Iraq |
| Shia | Majority ethnicity in Iraq |
| Sunni | Minority ethnicity in Iraq/former ruling party |
| Saddam Hussein | Military Dictatory in Iraq |
| Nuremberg Trials | ICC tribunal against Nazi war criminals |
| Covert | undercover |