Word: coupes
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...Musharraf claimed an overwhelming mandate to govern the country for another five years after results of a referendum gave him 95% of the vote. But the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that polling irregularities, including multiple voting, "exceeded our worst fears." Musharraf seized power in a military coup in October...
...Iraqi dictator once and for all. But while there is plenty of will, there still is no clearly effective way to move against Saddam. Senior Administration officials at the highest levels of planning say there are few good options. Saddam's internal security makes a successful coup unlikely. The Iraqi opposition is weak and scattered. And this is a war that the rest of the world, with the possible exception of Britain, is not eager for America to wage. While key allies in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, would be more than happy...
...smoothest regime-change scenario - a coup from within Saddam's own military ranks - is the least likely. At least six such coups have been attempted in the past decade, and all have failed miserably. With internal intelligence and security services at his disposal, Saddam has recently stepped up the pace of military purges, shifting around or simply executing any popular, effective officer who posed a potential threat. That leaves classic warfare as the only real alternative to a proxy...
Administration officials said that they had already tried several times to support a coup, with no success. Iraq is a “horrific police state” where a conspiracy has little chance of success, as one American official said. Hussein has thrown out United Nations weapons inspectors, and he has recently been moving surface-to-air missile batteries into the no-fly zones, endangering American and British aircraft that patrol the area. Hussein has used chemical weapons on his own people, and fired missiles at Israeli cities during the Gulf War—even though Israel took...
...Musharraf's first step in reining in the ISI was to dump its chief, Ahmed. He and the President were once close friends and fellow plotters in the 1999 coup that brought Musharraf to power. But former comrades say that Ahmed experienced a battlefield epiphany up in the Himalayan peaks during the 1999 Kargil offensive against India. After that, he began to pursue his own radical Islamic agenda. At a Cabinet meeting, he once yelled at an official: "What do you know? You don't even go to prayers...