Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FOUR AMERICAN FIGHTER JETS WERE ON A ROUtine monitoring flight over northern Iraq when ground radar locked on -- a clear sign of trouble. The next message was entirely unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind, dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters, three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in Turkey...
...first exchange of hostile fire over the no-fly zone, imposed two years ago by U.S.-led allies to protect Iraq's Kurds, since Iraq fired on two French Mirage reconnaissance planes on Feb. 3. Why the sudden new outburst? U.S. officials professed to see no special reason, speculating that Saddam Hussein was simply beginning a new round in his strategy of "cheat and retreat." Iraq claimed that one of its soldiers was wounded in the incident but denied initiating it. A Foreign Ministry spokesman called the U.S. response "aggressive and provocative behavior...
...stake they have in the success of his leadership and reforms. Moscow without Yeltsin could decide to withdraw its support of sanctions in Yugoslavia and instead back the Serbs in their bloody campaign for territory. A new regime could decide to reannex the Baltic states, repair relations with Iraq or refuse to honor approval of the START 2 disarmament treaty. The specter of renewed confrontation with a conservative, nationalist Russia that might attempt to revive the ways of the Soviet empire -- forcing the U.S. to give up the defense savings it had meant to use to finance domestic economic recovery...
...hold dear to me that I am not guilty and had nothing to do with this." The denials of the defendants notwithstanding, FBI and police investigators felt they had apprehended the core members of the terrorist conspiracy. Wider conspiracy theories about sponsors and trainers in Iran or Iraq began to fade away. Said James Esposito, head of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office: "The circle is now very narrow...
...IRAQ: Outwitting the World...