Word: baathist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-range guns. They also have Soviet antiaircraft missiles, and can fill the skies with ! antiaircraft flak when attacked. Six of the Guard's nine core divisions are spread in an arc along Kuwait's northern border with Iraq, while one remains in Baghdad to protect Saddam's Baathist government. Their importance to Pentagon planners has been apparent since the second day of the war, when they began absorbing massive air strikes...