Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from all over Iran .. . are moving rapidly into place." The exclusive story was the work of Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis, who also spent five hours interviewing and touring Baghdad with the man who is the object of Iran's attack: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. What Saddam Hussein had to say in TIME ("The chances for peace appear slim") turned out to be all too prophetic. Last Tuesday the Middle East's second war began. Gart and Brelis had traveled to Amman to interview King Hussein of Jordan, a close ally...
...Your Iranian brothers, in order to defend their country and push back the attacks on the enemy of Islam, have been forced to cross over into Iraq to save the oppressed Iraqi people. Rise up and install the Islamic government that you want!" So declared Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week as he launched his army along the Shatt al Arab waterway in a huge invasion of Iraq. For the first time in the 22 months since Iraq initially attacked Iran, heavy fighting was taking place on Iraqi territory. Khomeini's objective was not just the overthrow...
...Saheb ez-Zaman! Ya Saheb ez-Zaman!" (Translation: Thou absent Imam!) That was the order for as many as 100,000 soldiers and militiamen to begin the march toward Basra, Iraq's second largest city and the nerve center of its oil-producing region, and to engage an Iraqi army of about the same size. "Operation Ramadan" had begun. The first Iranian goal appeared to be the capture of Basra and much of southern Iraq, from which the invaders could either press on to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital 280 miles to the northwest, or pin down Iraqi divisions while...
...During the war the work force was reduced by 40% to 45% because the men were sent to the front. If you are talking about the financial situation, we have taken loans from some of our Arab brothers [about $20 billion was provided by gulf states for the Iraqi war effort]. Bankruptcy is not a possibility. If we are required to stop any of our development projects to meet battlefield requirements, we shall...
...sectarian differences could create problems in some countries, but not in Iraq. I am not saying we do not have any problems at all. Any leader would prefer his people to think from one point of view, to be of one religion, one sect, in one city. The Iraqi people think from various angles but agree on one central point. We have Sunnis and Shi'ites here, that is a fact. But all of them are Iraqis, and all of them love their revolution. They are fighting their enemy with the same spirit...