Word: iraq
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...scene, several bombs exploded within 275 yds. of her convoy. This was nothing new for TIME's Beirut bureau chief. Marlowe has been perilously close to the action since she joined TIME in 1989. Her datelines include some of the world's most dangerous places: Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Somalia, Algeria. Fluent in French and Arabic, Marlowe has one inflexible rule for covering civil wars: "I've learned how crucial it is to show that I don't take sides...
...Jones is also hinting at a Middle East connection. For one thing, he is floating the idea that on the day before the bombing, Vince Cannistraro, the retired head of CIA counterterrorism operations, tipped the FBI to a terrorist attack planned by a Middle Eastern nation, possibly Iraq, against a U.S. facility, possibly the Murrah building. Not quite, corrects Cannistraro, who says the tip came to him on April 19, after the bombing, from a Saudi Arabian source he considered untrustworthy. Although he passed it on to the feds, it was with the warning that it was problematic. "Jones called...
Another challenge, according to Baker, is countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in countries such as North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya...
...administrator for the large electrical utility Energoinvest. "If we wanted to go anywhere, we had money for it. We would go skiing or on picnics every weekend." Kruno, who served as a director of technology at Energoinvest, says he turned down offers of high-paying jobs in Libya and Iraq because he and his family could not consider leaving their beloved Sarajevo. "We are Europeans," says Rabija. "Who would want to live where you have to keep your face covered?" Kruno called his wife a Sarajevo patriot. "When we would go to the coast for vacations, we would stay only...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Iraq has rebuilt its military into a formidable, highly-skilled force that is now the foremost short-term threat in the Persian Gulf, the chief of the U.S. Central Command said Tuesday. General Binford Peay III appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to request that the lawmakers not reduce U.S. military forces or decrease their overseas presence. Peay described Iraq's army as the most modernized and most powerful in the region, despite the fact that it has less than half the 51 divisions it had before the Persian Gulf War. "What we have in Iraq...