Word: iraq
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Both sides would probably use missiles, and in consequence there would probably be a large number of civilian casualties. The Israeli aim presumably would be a fast, decisive strike against Syria to avoid a three-front war, with Egypt, Jordan and Iraq joining forces to crush them...
...camps. In addition, the P.L.O. has an official military branch, the Palestine Liberation Army, with 17,000 full-time soldiers, who are based mainly in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The six fedayeen groups...
...trying to get him back in). Prior to the Rabat summit, he warned against the dangers of "capitulating" to the U.S. and Israel on the Palestine issue, and threatened to set up a new radical liberation group that would oppose the P.L.O. Habash's hard stand was backed by Iraq, which, along with Libya, forms part of the so-called rejection front, which stands
...expands." In answer, Iranians point out that they share a 1,100-mile border with the Soviet Union; and the Russians, they argue, have never really given up their interest in gaining control of Iran's oilfields some day. Iran also has an inimical and testy neighbor in Iraq, which has been massively supplied with Soviet weaponry. The forces of the two states frequently clash head-on along the border. In the most recent skirmish last spring, Iran lost 42 men in a fierce firefight but killed at least 39 Iraqis in return...
...hardliners, such as Iraq and Libya, insist that only armed struggle can persuade Israel to yield. Syria's President Hafez Assad was willing to negotiate a settlement but insisted that it be a once-and-for-all deal worked out in a Geneva conference. Then there were the moderates, headed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat who supports U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's gradualist approach-"a little more territory for a little more peace...