Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward Iran. On the one hand, the Commerce Department under Clinton has helped U.S. companies sign billions of dollars' worth of contracts with foreign countries. On the other hand, the U.S. government remains deeply suspicious of Iran, which is one of the countries--along with Cuba, North Korea and Iraq--with whom the U.S. restricts trade...
Americans Held in Iraq...
Iraqi police arrested two Americans working in Kuwait after they crossed into Iraq without authorization. The men, who were trying to visit friends at a U.N. camp near the border, were arrested after they were accidentally sent through a border crossing by the U.N. observer mission...
...businessmen, even a bomb-disposal expert have found themselves in Iraqi jails after wandering across the border with Kuwait. In most cases they were held for a few days or weeks and then quietly released. But last week when two civilian defense contractors were detained after straying into southern Iraq, State Department officials were worried that this time they might not be so fortunate...
...Udai publicly condemned the conciliatory efforts as a failure and urged his father to take a harder line. On the very day that the U.S. succeeded once again in blocking efforts by France, Russia and China to loosen the sanctions, the two Americans were seized after they entered Iraq. "They're certainly in the mood to make this an incident," says Rend Francke, executive director of the Washington-based Iraq Foundation, a pro-democracy think tank...