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"The United Kingdom is playing a full part in the work of the Special Commission, our involvement is known as Operation ROCKINGHAM."
2003 Invasion of Iraq
Operation Rockingham was the codeword for UK involvement in inspections in Iraq following the war over Kuwait in 1990–91. Early in 1991 the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) was established to oversee the destruction of Iraq's weapons of
Scott Ritter later stated that Operation Rockingham had cherry-picked evidence found by the United Nations Special Commission, evidence, he says, that was later used as part of the casus belli for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The activities carried out by the UK as part of Rockingham were detailed in the following white paper (published in July 1992 as Command Paper 1981).
Use of the codeword was referred to in the annual British defence policy white paper "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1991" (published in July that year as Command Paper 1559-I) where at page 28 it states...