Word: iraq
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...attacks may be launched. So far, no Iraqi planes have taken up the challenge. The United States launched the missile attacks after Iraqi forces went into action last weekend, supporting one Kurdish faction against another in a military campaign the U.S. condemns as brutal. While international condemnation of Iraq's actions has been strong, support for the U.S. retaliation has been mixed. Britain, Germany and Israel approve of the U.S. move, while France and sometime Iraqi ally Russia deplore the missile strikes. The most telling effect of international disapproval is the hold up in Iraq's return to the world...
CAIRO: Unlike the broad Arab coalition that supported the U.S during Operation Desert Storm, most Arab nations view Tuesday's attacks on Iraq with consternation. Egypt and Syria said that they fear the U.S attacks will make an already bleak situation in Iraq worse. "The developments do not augur well for the people of Iraq or stability in the region," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa. Egypt, he declared, was "really disturbed" by the situation. Syria's Foreign Ministry issued an even stronger statement, calling the attack "an action that violates the U.N charter and international law." Only Saudi Arabia...
...forces launched missiles into Iraq in retaliation for attacks on Kurd cities, the Kurds remain just as far from realizing their fleeting dream of statehood and continue to be used as pawns in the larger political maneuverings of the region. An estimated 20 million Kurds live in the mountainous regions where the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq meet. The 2,000-year Kurd history has been plagued by feuds and infighting that have left Kurds, the world's largest ethnic group that has been unable to achieve statehood, vulnerable to outside meddling. Throughout this century, the Kurds have...
...Barbra Streisand. Ryan ascends to the top spot when a Japanese airplane plunges into the U.S. Capitol, killing the President, his Cabinet and most members of Congress. Jack's the only guy left, and before he can say middle-class tax cut he has to start battling united Iran-Iraq forces, right-wing militia, a new worldwide plague, terrorists and aggressive TV journalists. "I don't know what to do," he says to himself in a typically Clancyesque moment of self-reflection. "Where's the manual, the training course for this...
...loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam's firing squad." The hijackers took over a Sudanese jetliner initially headed to Amman, Jordan and forced the pilot to fly to London after a stop...