TIME provides a look back at Saddam Hussein's on-going game of deception with UN weapons inspectors.

January 11, 1999
BAGHDAD BRIEFING
After riding out strikes, Saddam shoots back

DECEMBER 28, 1998
WHAT GOOD DID IT DO?
The air assault battered Iraq, but it hasn't wiped out the threat posed by Saddam's secret lethal arsenal

NOVEMBER 30, 1998
OUR MAN IN BAGHDAD
Saddam's demise could actually hurt his oil-producing neighbors

NOVEMBER 16, 1998
HOW FAR CAN YOU GO?
The world's bad boys need a real threat to keep them in line

MARCH 2, 1998
SELLING THE WAR BADLY
As Washington's Foreign-policy stars are shouted down at Ohio State, U.S. war plans fail to score points with allies.

FEBRUARY 23, 1998
STRATEGY
How the U.S. planned an attack on Iraq earlier this year.

FEBRUARY 16, 1998
TIME TO OFF SADDAM?
It's a simple solution to the Iraq problem. But risks make it an unrealistic option for the U.S.

NOVEMBER 24, 1997
EYEBALL TO EYEBALL
In the gravest international crisis of his presidency, Bill Clinton may have to go it alone. While his allies balk, the President is threatening air strikes to force Iraq's Saddam Hussein to open the doors to U.N. biological-weapons inspections.

NOVEMBER 17, 1997
HIDDEN KILLERS
These are the weapons Iraq intends to keep after the inspections end.