Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hammer is alive and well--except that now the price tag is far higher. No weapons to arm the B-2 with? Perhaps Ollie North can work out a deal with Iraq for some superaccurate Scuds. Christopher D. Barrett Bath, Maine AOL: CD Barrett...
...doubt there would have been an explosion without him.'' At the first round of trials for the plotters last year, Yousef's name came up again and again. But he was nowhere to be found. Some news accounts speculated that he had fled to Egypt; others placed him in Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan. Now, with a second round of trials under way in New York City, information from the intelligence agencies that tracked him around the world--including the CIA, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration--reveals that Yousef's travels took in huge swaths of the planet...
...least one major question remains unanswered: Who financed Yousef on his wide-ranging travels? Speculation has centered on the usual pariah states, particularly Iraq and Iran. But experts in and out of the various intelligence services warn against jumping to conclusions. Says Steven Emerson, the director of the PBS documentary Jihad in America: ``He is not high maintenance. The World Trade Center bomb cost less than $3,000, so the monies involved in carrying out these kinds of plots are not extensive.'' He adds that a lot of money was raised during the anti-Soviet jihad--or holy war-- movement...
...working drugs, thugs or tech transfers, you're going to be in banks all the time looking at financial transactions''--jobs often better suited for an officer under corporate cover, says a CIA contractor. NOC officers also have had more luck spying on ``hard targets'' such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea, where the U.S. has no embassies in which to hide CIA operatives. In some countries, Time has learned, the CIA is even experimenting with setting up two stations. One would be under the traditional embassy cover to serve as a decoy, while another much more secretive station would...
...officials, responding to a New York Times report that Iraq may be selling 200,000 barrels of oil a day in violation of a strict U.N. embargo, acknowledged some leakage but claimed the sanctions were generally holding up. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said U.S. estimates of Iraqi oil exports are "in the neighborhood of 80,000 to 100,000 barrels a day," noting that Iraq was selling a far more lucrative 2.5 million barrels a day prior to its 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent embargo. But he added: "It is nonetheless troubling that Iraq is finding...