Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam is particularly interested in exploiting Arab perceptions that the West applies an anti-Muslim double standard. He massages Arab resentment that the same allied forces that retaliate so quickly against Iraq remain indifferent to the Serbian slaughter of Bosnia's Muslims and turn a blind eye to Israel's expulsion of more than 400 Palestinians. Said the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet: "How could the U.S. start this operation against the background of public opinion horrified by events in Bosnia? With 10,000 women raped and people jammed into internment camps in Bosnia, this bombing is inexplicable...
...Iraq's close neighbors, particularly the Kuwaitis, there are more specific worries. Saddam failed to meet a U.N. deadline to remove six police posts that remain on Kuwaiti soil. The diplomatic community is not very hopeful that Bush's air strike will have much influence on the situation. "I don't think it will cause Saddam much pain," noted a Western envoy in Kuwait. "And I doubt it will deter him. He has a long history of miscalculations." Adds a Kuwaiti businessman: "We are behind the U.S. action, but we believe that Saddam will continue to defy...
...Major and French President Francois Mitterrand, agreed that the violations of the no-fly zones could not go unanswered. Top military staff at all three defense ministries were instructed to draft a variety of options, ranging from a strike on one no-fly zone to a major assault on Iraq's airfields, missile bases and control-and-command structure. During Bush's New Year's Eve visit to Riyadh, he enlisted the cooperation of King Fahd...
...mission was called off a first time, when Saddam seemed to remove the missiles, and again last Tuesday because of inclement weather. By Wednesday, the skies had largely cleared, and the allies needed only to wait for darkness. When the mission was complete, the allies had suffered no casualties. Iraq reported that 19 people, including two civilians, were killed and 15 wounded. Saddam threatened, "We will inflict great humiliation on the infidels...
...Saddam Hussein's devilishly creative cheating on U.N. Security Council resolutions. The Iraqis kept piling on the defiance with daily forays into Kuwaiti territory to haul away weapons and equipment, while Saddam continued to play a shell game with antiaircraft missiles in the southern no-fly zone of Iraq. Faced with such brazenness at the beginning of his last week in the White House, Bush raged against the dying of his presidency...