Word: iraq
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...LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER will fill his shoes at State. Even so, President Bush is unlikely to nominate Eagleburger as his new Secretary of State. A former ambassador to Yugoslavia, Eagleburger has become a subject of the House Banking Committee inquiry into charges that the Reagan and Bush Administrations improperly allowed Iraq to use U.S. funds and sensitive American technology to build its war machine. The committee is also probing Eagleburger's actions as a onetime director of a Yugoslav bank that was later convicted of money laundering. Eagleburger has not been linked directly to any illegal or improper activities. But rather...
Further face-offs seem inevitable. Iraq will continue to try to undermine the U.N. sanctions that hobble its economy; the U.S. and its allies will insist that Iraq bow to international law. In such a charged atmosphere, war by miscalculation cannot be ruled out. Nor can war by design. Some Clinton aides grimly await their "October surprise" -- a confrontation with Saddam that could rally the country around Bush and give him a boost at the polls on Election...
...Amman handled the business, many of them Iraqi fronts established after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait two years ago. Al- Bawadi Co., for example, an Amman importer of European goods, has been identified by Western intelligence as the creation of Saddam's half brother Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who directs Iraq's internal security. Arabco, which deals in military equipment, was also identified by Western intelligence as a firm run by Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel. With an estimated $30 billion stashed in foreign banks, Saddam has plenty of funds to bribe Jordanian officials and purchase goods abroad, including...
Jordanian officials feel unfairly squeezed by Washington. Last year, when Baker urged Taher al-Masri, then Jordan's Prime Minister, to comply with the embargo, he responded, "If you want me to reduce trade with Iraq, then open the gulf states to trade with us." Jordan's economy has been badly hurt by the punishment meted out by the desert kingdoms for King Hussein's support of Saddam in the war. Echoing widespread sentiments in Amman, Minister of Information Mahmoud al-Sherif complains that the volume of smuggling from Turkey and Syria is much greater than that from Jordan...
...Jordan continues to ship goods illegally to Iraq...