Word: iraq
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...Many Republicans fear signing such a pact would leave America weak as countries around the world secretly build chemical weapons. But failure to pass the treaty would be seen as a serious setback for U.S. foreign policy, notes TIME's Doug Waller. "The U.S. would join pariah states like Iraq, Iran and North Korea that have refused to ratify." Signed by 164 nations thus far, and ratified by 75, the pact will take effect April 29 regardless of whether it is ratified...
Successors to the leftist People's Mujahedin, which helped overthrow Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the soldiers of the rebel force are bivouacked in five camps in the barren salt desert of Iraq, just out of range of Iranian artillery. Critics call them pawns of the Iraqis, who are said to have given the resisters money and arms in addition to a generous swath of desert land. They also say Rajavi hardly represents a democratic alternative to the current regime...
Western experts doubt claims by the N.C.R. that it is funded by the Iranian exile community, contending that Saddam pays for its operations. Most of the N.L.A.'s armor and other equipment, they say, was captured from Iran toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988. The Massouds "are simply not a viable alternative to the current regime because of their ties to Iraq," says Eisenstadt. Clawson says the People's Mujahedin's radical-left politics is also out of step. "Their day is past," he says...
...cannot tell that from the bustle of military activity at the Zahra Rajabi training base in southern Iraq, where volunteers get their basic training. Commander Mehdi Madadi says he has seen a 500% rise in new recruits in the past year. "We are seeing young people come across the border in groups of 15 and 20," he says. "They don't remember the Shah or know much about the People's Mujahedin. They just have no hope and no future...
...kind of caught me at a bad time, Jeffrey," I said. "I just sent the IRS a check as my contribution toward one of those fancy new F-22 jet fighters that's going to keep us technologically way ahead of potential enemies like Iraq and Afghanistan, at least until we start selling them to Iraq and Afghanistan...