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

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 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
COVER: 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. Inside the showdown

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

NOVEMBER 16, 1997
IMPACT: TIME/CNN Chat
Transcript of chat with biotechnologist Dr. Raymond Zilinskas, a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, and currently an associate professor at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1996
SLAMMING SADDAM AGAIN
The U.S. claims victory as the dictator is pummeled by missiles. But there's more than one war going on.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1995
SADDAM SPILLS SECRETS
He reveals more on weapons of mass destruction.

MAY 23, 1994
NO LONGER FENCED IN
Saddam is back in business as usual, wriggling out of the international embargo and rebuilding his weapons-procurement network.