Word: iraq
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...attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs and, U.N. inspectors believe, he is working to amass a stock of nerve gas and germ weapons. Finally--and this is crucial--he himself is the problem. Iraq experts agree that any successor, no matter how thuggish, would be less powerful, less malevolent, less dangerous. Isn't it moral--as with Hitler in 1938--to take this one life before he takes thousands more, or hundreds, or even...
Privately, many Arab officials and dissident Iraqis urge assassination on their American contacts as the cleanest way to return Iraq to some kind of normality. But Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says that "no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The prohibition grew out of widespread disgust over disclosures of U.S. plots to kill Castro and a scheme to depose Chile's President Salvador Allende that helped lead to his death...
...Americans last week. In the shadow of the World Trade Center, the target of a bombing in 1993, New York City began the week with a drill involving 600 police, fire fighters and FBI agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating two CIA employees in 1993. The day after that, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the "mastermind" of the World Trade Center bombing, and his driver were found guilty in a federal...
Even before the U.S. went to war in the gulf, the CIA was eyeing the bioweapons threat apprehensively. In a now declassified study sent to the White House in September 1990, the agency warned that Iraq could use "special forces, civilian-government agents or foreign terrorists to hand-deliver biological or chemical agents clandestinely." Saddam would hardly produce such weapons if he never intended to use them. And when might he unleash them? The CIA thought it would be when he felt his survival was in danger. "He would want to take as many of his enemies with...
...interview with TIME last week, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz brushed off any suggestion that his government might engage in terror attacks. "No," he said, "we are not in the business of terrorism. You know that." But then he went on to speculate that various groups might sympathize with Iraq's plight and strike on their own. "There are," Aziz said, "people in other countries who are not satisfied with the situation about Iraq. If a military attack is waged against Iraq, that will increase the resentment against the Americans, and more people would be in that mood...