Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANOTHER WEAPONS-INSPECTION TEAM WAS DISpatched to Iraq last Friday, one more reminder of the International Atomic Energy Agency's failure to spot and squelch Saddam Hussein's budding nuclear warfare capability long before the Gulf War even began. Now, hoping to avert a similar embarrassment, the agency is headed for a different showdown with North Korea. The IAEA has warned the insular communist regime that if North Korea does not open its doors this time, the agency will bare its teeth and press for an unprecedented U.N. Security Council-backed "special inspection" of two buildings suspected of storing nuclear...
THEY ARE, BY THEIR OWN CREDIBLE ACCOUNTS, TWO ordinary Britons tripped up by circumstances. Paul Ride, 33, a catering manager employed in Kuwait, says he was forced into Iraq by soldiers during a business trip near the border. Michael Wainwright, 41, claims he was admitted to Kurdistan by Iraqi guards while visiting Turkey. Both are now serving long terms for illegal entry, and Iraq has tied their fate to a payoff demanded of the British government growing out of the Gulf...
...just broke out with Iraq when we were all in the Science Center," Snow and someone said, 'Oh, it's only a press conference...
...Justice Department has been accused of dubious behavior in its investigation of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, an Italian institution whose Atlanta branch made $4 billion in fraudulent loans to firms owned by or doing business with Iraq. Justice investigators are charged not just with botching their probe into B.N.L.'s transgressions but also with ignoring evidence that B.N.L.'s Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, was not solely responsible for the questionable loans. A 163-page Senate Intelligence Committee report issued last week on the affair suggests, however, that most of the Justice Department lapses were due to "bureaucratic bungling...
...victim of the B.N.L. scandal was Marianne Gasior, who blew the whistle on the Pennsylvania company she worked for, called Kennametal, when she learned that it was shipping sophisticated machine tools that could be used in weapons manufacture to companies controlled by Iraq. Some of the equipment was purchased with a B.N.L. letter of credit. Kennametal denies any wrongdoing. Gasior says that when she tried to report the sale to Justice Department officials, she was alternately ignored and badgered by prosecutors investigating the case until she finally took her complaint to Congress. Says Gasior: "Justice refused...