Costs of Containment. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates
contributed a total of $37 billion to the $61.1 billion in incremental costs of Desert Storm, all
of which has been paid. From the end of the Gulf war until the end of FY2000, the Defense
Department has incurred about $8 billion in costs to contain Iraq and provide humanitarian
aid to the Kurds. Of that, about $1.14 billion was spent in FY2000, and just under $100
million was spent for Operation Desert Fox. About $1.1 billion was spent in FY2001, and
an FY2001 defense appropriation (H.R. 4576, P.L. 106-259, signed August 9, 2000)
provided $3.938 billion in emergency spending for operations over Iraq and in Bosnia and
Kosovo.) The Department of Defense, under the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act
of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5859a), assisted UNSCOM by providing U-2 surveillance flights
(suspended since the December 15, 1998 UNSCOM pullout), intelligence, personnel,
equipment, and logistical support, at a cost of about $15 million per year. (See CRS Issue
Brief IB94040, Peacekeeping: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement.)
