Word: baghdad
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...Despite Baghdad's success in repelling the latest Iranian attack, President Saddam Hussein has been unable to end the conflict with Iran through either force or negotiation. Some Middle East experts wondered whether his trip to Saudi Arabia last week, an unusual move for a man who does not often venture outside his own country, was a sign of nervousness. After visiting the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Saddam went on to al Ihsa for talks with King Fahd. The two leaders were said to have discussed the gulf war and the Islamic summit conference to be held...
Routine had suddenly turned to terror after the jetliner, a Boeing 737, had been aloft for almost an hour on its 90-minute flight from Baghdad to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Passengers were just finishing a chicken lunch when a man suddenly ran through the cabin toward the cockpit, wildly shouting "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" A plainclothes security officer yelled, "Stop that!," but the battle between as many as four hijackers and half a dozen Iraqi security men had already begun. According to Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into...
...Iranian terrorists of the political benefits of kidnaping. Cornea's captors noted that France had begun to take "serious steps" toward meeting their demands. In June, for example, the French compelled an Iranian opposition leader, Massoud Rajavi, and 300 of his mujahedin followers to leave France for Baghdad. In November France agreed to make an initial payment on a $1 billion loan extended in 1975 by the late Shah to the French nuclear power program...
...Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and Khanaqin, a town northeast of Baghdad...
...that the Iranians are stalling until their pilots have learned to fly the fighter jets that the Chinese agreed to sell Iran last summer. Others wonder whether the Iranian war effort may at last be faltering, a notion that is dismissed by many observers. Says an Iraqi official in Baghdad: "When Khomeini was in exile in Paris, he said he had three enemies: the Shah, Jimmy Carter and (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein. He brought down the Shah, he thinks he brought down Carter through the hostage crisis, and now he's intent on achieving his third...