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...goals. Although Security Council resolutions forbid Iraq to possess or develop weapons of mass destruction, they place no such ban on his conventional-arms industry. Using a clandestine technology-procurement network never fully dismantled, Saddam continues to buy spare parts for T-72 tanks in China and Russia, antitank and air-defense missiles from Bulgaria, and may now be turning to West European firms for critical electronics for his air force. At the same time, he has pressed forward with Iraq's ballistic-missile research at newly built laboratories. With a leaner and meaner fighting machine of about...
...want to think. I don't want ..." His hand sweeps the room; the chaotic debris indicates that he connects to very little. A wall calendar is still open to October 1992 -- the month the apartment's original inhabitants fled. Their delicate demitasse cups lie shattered under a carelessly tossed antitank missile...
...General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's facing down the U.N. and the U.S., other clan heads are feeling more courageous about holding onto their weaponry, and the U.N. is considering seizing the supplies by force. Included in the caches are armed personnel carriers, artillery pieces, mortars and the type of antitank weapons that have been effective in shooting down U.S. Blackhawk helicopters...
...difficult to get too huffy about the deal after reading Brian Keenan, Terry Waite and Terry Anderson on their years in chains and filth. Is a hostage worth 300 TOW antitank missiles or 50 Hawks? We know the argument: rewarding terrorism breeds more terrorism. But what if the hostage is your son, brother or husband, suddenly stripped of humanity and lost in a world that reads like Kafka with kaffiyehs...
...difficult to get too huffy about the deal after reading Brian Keenan, Terry Waite and Terry Anderson on their years in chains and filth. Is a hostage worth 300 TOW antitank missiles or 50 Hawks? We know the argument: rewarding terrorism breeds more terrorism. But what if the hostage is your son, brother or husband, suddenly stripped of humanity and lost in a world that reads like Kafka with kaffiyehs...