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...about lining their pockets or gaining power than protecting their constituents and the law, our quality of life will surely degenerate. When President Richard Nixon abandoned honesty and attempted to rig his chances of winning the presidency, he came closer than any man has ever come to staging a coup and subverting our democracy...
...Kurdish leaders ought to be joining hands to secure their independence from an increasingly shaky Saddam, who escaped yet another coup attempt earlier this month. Instead Kurds are killing one another, and northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across...
Early in March, an elaborate coup plot against Saddam was hatched that required the cooperation of the feuding Kurds. But within hours of the attack, the entire plan collapsed. In the first stage, as planned, Talabani's 10,000 troops launched an opening skirmish against the Iraqi army's 5th Corps along the Kurdish border near Kirkuk. Barzani, who has a force of equal strength, refused to get involved in the coup. Shi'ite insurgents next failed to undertake their strike against Iraqi forces in the southern part of the country, and an Iraqi armored division that was to mutiny...
...which has provided limited financial backing to Iraqi dissidents, was alerted by the Iraqi National Congress in February that the coup would soon take place. But the agency was skeptical. Talabani and the other plotters could not keep their mouths shut about the planning. The week before the coup, even reporters were picking up rumors that it was imminent. "If the press knew about the coup, you could be sure Saddam knew," said a U.S. intelligence analyst. He did. The week before the coup attempt, Saddam put his entire military on full alert. He never set foot in Tikrit. Samaraii...
...officials -- and quite a few others -- knew of plans for a coup last weekend against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, Saddam seems to have been among the cogniscenti. Led by Wafiq Samaraii, who headed Iraqi intelligence during the Gulf War but later lost his post in a purge, the plot was to be carried out by major sections of the Iraqi military, with simultaneous attacks mounted in both northern and southern Iraq. First reported by The New York Times this morning, the coup would have united Iraq's main opposition group with army contingents and Kurd and Shiite forces throughout...