Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supply routes at the base of Zozok Mountain, near the border, plastering hillside, countryside and villages in the neighborhood with machine-gun bullets, rockets and napalm. Kurdish sharpshooters sat out the attacks in caves, surprised army patrols on isolated roads, swooped down one night on the tents of an Iraqi army battalion stationed near the town of Ruwandiz...
...results were bloodcurdling. "The battalion was completely annihilated," announced a rebel communique. "The aggressors failed in all their attacks. Along the Ruwandiz front, there are more than 1,000 bodies left by the Iraqi army. General Barzani has begged the International Red Cross to propose a one-day truce to remove these decomposing bodies, for the health of the civilian population is endangered." Radio Baghdad told it another way. "The Kurdish rebels," it said, "are collapsing. Sixty rebels were killed in the Barzan area, 75 in Khorman, 80 in Korah and 20 in Koti. The insurgents were so exhausted that...
...feels that an all-out war on the Kurds-which Uqaili was preparing to prosecute in a big spring drive-is an operation that cannot succeed. In one of his first statements, he held out the prospect of local rule for the Kurds, which is as close as any Iraqi chief has come to meeting their demands for autonomy...
...Treasury also claims that it knows nothing of this vast estate, now worth $512 million, which it is supposed to be holding in trust for the rightful heirs. Such professions of ignorance do not deceive Princess Hélène Favraud Ayoubi, 45, widow of a self-styled Iraqi emir and president of the World Union of Mallet Heirs, which is dedicated to recovering the legacy. Nor was she overly fazed last week when the French government indicted her for swindling 22,000 members of the Mallet union out of $66,000 in dues through "chimerical promises of eventual...
...regulate use of the river waters. Announced Aram: "The Iranian government regards the agreement as breached." With that, Iran ordered a mobilization of its forces along the border, alerted its elite Kermanshah Division, scrambled its U.S.-built supersonic F-5 jet fighters, vowing to "silence the voice" of Iraqi artillery and "crush" any further Iraqi aggression...