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...meddling. Throughout this century, the Kurds have unsuccessfully waged rebellions lasting decades against the governments of Turkey, Iraq and Iran but their lack of unity always undermined their purpose. The Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s only made matters worse. During the bloody 8-year conflict, Iraq supported the Iranian Kurds opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran, in turn, supported the Iraqi Kurds opposed to Saddam Hussein. Throughout, Saddam's regime waged a merciless war on Kurds, including the notorious chemical weapons attack on the northern Iraqi city of Halabiya in 1988. The Kurds united in rebellion against the Iraqi...
Your article on the search for aircraft sabotage [AFTERMATH: FLIGHT 800 CRASH, Aug. 5] included a reference to the May 9, 1976, crash near Madrid of an Iranian air force plane that was the same model as TWA Flight 800. You mistakenly said this leased aircraft was a Continental Airlines Boeing 747-100. The aircraft in question was never in Continental's fleet. It was leased to the prerevolutionary Iranian air force by another U.S. air carrier. NED WALKER, Vice President for Corporate Communications Continental Airlines Houston...
...enemy of our generation." In fact, the law inflicts its punishment on America's allies, doing virtually nothing to prevent states from supporting terrorists but imposing sanctions against companies in Turkey as well as Italy, France, Germany or any other nation that makes a major investment in the Iranian or Libyan petroleum business...
Turkish officials say they are not investing in Iran but simply buying its gas, just as Japan purchases Iranian oil. The Turks are probably right, revealing how little practical impact on its prime targets the controversial new law is likely to have. Even so, Iran counterattacked last week, filing a complaint against the sanctions at an international tribunal in the Hague...
...Helms-Burton law, which permits Cuban Americans to go to court in the U.S. to sue foreign companies "trafficking" in their property seized by the Castro regime, and Iran-Libya sanctions, which bar U.S. financing and export rights to foreign firms making new investments in Libyan or Iranian oil and gas, are something different. They threaten to punish private individuals outside the U.S. who do not obey laws passed by Congress...