Word: iraq
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...argued against the Gulf War. I was declared "despicable." My point, made to a rally whose participants were united in support of our troops but divided as to whether we ought to have delayed war, was simply that the question of whether sanctions would have been effective against Iraq was, at that point, academic, as fighting had begun. As one who contributes to the American Civil Liberties Union and served for a year on the executive board of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, I was not seeking to silence anyone. The Crimson has no excuse for such nonsense...
...Gates' nomination has already been a tough battle for the president. The summer months brought opposition from within the intelligence community as well as questions about whether Gates was involved in politicizing intelligence and transferring arms to Iraq...
...beginning to question his ability to understand a rapidly changing international scene. His latest mistake: publicly concluding that Gennadi Yanayev and his co- conspirators were "the men in charge" and calling sanctions "premature." This follows Mitterrand's efforts to broker a peace plan just hours before the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, and his vain / attempt to halt German unification...
Arms dealers are not the only ones to describe a pact between Abedi's bank and China's weapons industry: according to State Department sources, China has also used B.C.C.I. as a middleman in Silkworm missile sales to Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The Silkworm missiles sold to Iraq and Saudi Arabia were equipped with sophisticated Israeli-manufactured guidance systems, the government sources say. Arms dealers who have done business with B.C.C.I. say its officers attracted illegal deals because the bank provided documentation and letters of credit for arms being shipped, for example, as agricultural machinery, and that it routinely...
However, just as Bessmertnykh took office, the coalition launched the air war against Iraq. An English-speaking Soviet major interpreted for a group of senior officers from the General Staff who had assembled in the Defense Ministry to watch the televised daily briefings from the Pentagon and coalition headquarters in Riyadh. Most of Iraq's antiaircraft batteries were made in the U.S.S.R. and manned by personnel trained by Soviet advisers. Yet the coalition's fighter-bombers and cruise missiles achieved perfect surprise, then set about to clobber Iraq with near impunity for six weeks. There was much cursing and gnashing...