Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz's spokesman, Charles Redman, quoted the secretary as saying the attack would not dissuade the United States in its efforts to stem Bolivia's thriving cocaine trade...
...detailed report mentioned nine Iraqi soldiers poisoned in a battle zone, allegedly in a mustard gas attack by Iran...
...detailed report mentioned nine Iraqisoldiers poisoned in a battle zone, allegedly in amustard gas attack by Iran...
...origins of the gulf war have grown somewhat obscure over the years. Most authorities blame Iraq for staging the first direct attack, in September 1980, though many concede that Baghdad was mightily provoked by persistent Iranian efforts to stir trouble within Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim minority. After fighting more than three years to recapture its enemy-held land, Iran invaded Iraqi territory in 1984. Eventually, it squeezed off the Shatt al Arab waterway in southern Iraq, the country's only entrance to the gulf. At one point in the conflict, Iran held large areas of territory, notably in southeastern...
...shootdown gave relatively moderate political figures a chance to argue the futility of continuing a war that, they insisted, the U.S. would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions. Tehran has long complained about U.S. warships' protecting gulf shipping from Iranian attack. Iran has accused Washington, correctly, of providing military intelligence to Iraq and more recently charged, altogether incorrectly, that U.S. troops helped reclaim the Fao peninsula. Says a U.S. military analyst: "Iran needed a fall...