Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blame for starting it all, invading Iran in a reckless attempt to seize some long-disputed border territory from the new and untried revolutionary government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran, having repulsed the invasion, has taken the war into Iraq in hopes of forcing the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the creation in Baghdad of an Islamic republic modeled on Iran's own. Iran has routinely executed large numbers of Iraqi prisoners of war, in violation of the Geneva Convention. More recently, Khomeini has thrown tens of thousands of virtually untrained Iranian teen-agers and even...
Since last October, the U.S. has suspected Iraq of using homemade mustard gas, which burns, incapacitates and, in many cases, kills its victims. But the Iraqi chemical attacks were apparently not widespread until last month. "The real action has been since Feb. 22," says a senior U.S. official. "We have very conclusive intelligence." Evidence of mustard-gas burns is appearing in the blistered skin, lungs and other tissue of some Iranian soldiers, including 15 victims who were flown to Western Europe last week for treatment...
Amid the conflicting claims and counterclaims, it was clear only that the loss of life has been tremendous. The Iraqis said they had killed 30,000 Iranians, the majority of them young men and boys, in the recent fighting, including 2,000 in one battle last week. Iran claimed to have killed 12,000 Iraqis. The shelling of civilian targets also continued: at least 100 Iranians were killed in several border towns. But last week's toll barely began to measure the human cost of the war. According to an Iranian defector who was formerly a senior official...
Iran's attempt to destroy Saddam Hussein by squeezing his country economically appears to have failed. Besides preventing Iraqi ships from using the Gulf, Iran destroyed Iraq's main oil facilities at Fao in 1980. In 1982 Syria, an ally of Iran's, turned off the valve on Iraq's pipeline to the Mediterranean, reducing Iraq's oil exports to a mere 650,000 bbls. per day and its 1983 income to $9 billion. But with some discreet U.S. economic help and huge quantities of money from its Arab friends, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait...
...Islamic empire under the banner of Khomeini stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean-or beyond. Khomeini supporters were said to have been behind the food riots in Tunisia and Morocco earlier this year; authorities also believe that the Iranian-sponsored Al Dawa Party, a group of Iraqi subversives, organized six car bombings in Kuwait last December. Most alarming, some 2,000 Islamic Guards are positioned just inside the Syrian border, from where they make frequent trips into Lebanon to train Shi'ite terrorists. The government refuses to acknowledge ties with Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that...