Word: iraq
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Three days after returning to Iraq, a senior State Department source reports that Hussein Kamel and his brother have been killed by a mob of "hotheads" in Baghdad. The killings follow shortly after news that Saddam Hussein's daughters had divorced the husbands they had defected to Jordan with six months ago. Iraq's official news agency announced the divorces earlier today and cited "betrayal of the homeland" as the wives' main reason. The two men, Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel, had returned to Iraq with assurances of a pardon being granted...
AMMAN, JORDAN: Iraqui Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead...
...participants don't get to choose their country, making for some interesting situations for the participants, said Peter T. Bellanti of D'Youville College in Buffalo, N.Y. His delegation was assigned to represent Iraq...
...YORK CITY: Iraqi representatives arrived in New York to begin negotiations with the U.N. for permission to sell as much as $2 billion worth of oil over the next six months. The U.N. has enforced an oil embargo against Iraq since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq now appears ready to accept the longstanding U.N. offer to partially lift the embargo, allowing limited oil sales. There are strings attached, however: the money can only be used to support Gulf War victims, buy food and medicine for Iraqi citizens, or fund U.N. monitoring operations. Iraq most strenuously objects...
...didn't have a very savory reputation around Washington, even before he was head of the KGB," explains Nelan. "Most people here think he had links to the KGB his whole life. And as a Middle East specialist, he is also the one who formed alliances with Syria and Iraq and other radical muslim states and was trying until the last moment to work out a deal for his buddy Saddam Hussein. These meetings will be very important...