Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasingly isolated in the Administration on this point, Haig has argued vehemently against any open break with Israel for a year, since the Israeli air raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in June 1981. In part, he believes that public criticism has the same effect on the stub born Begin that waving a red flag has on a bull: it only provokes him to still more outrageous behavior. Also, Haig believes that since the Israeli invasion has smashed the military power of the Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S. diplomacy has a chance not only to re-create an independent...
...arms aid that Israel provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last week charged that "the U.S. encouraged Israel's bloody adventure in order to save [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein, strengthen the hand of the reactionary regimes in the region, weaken progressive forces and indulge Israel's expansionist designs." He also charged Egypt and Saudi Arabia with being "pillars of U.S. expansionism...
...Saudis have also been maneuvering behind the scenes to achieve a settlement to the Iran-Iraq war. Quiet negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have taken place in Damascus, with the Syrians acting as intermediaries. The Saudis, who supported Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province nearly two years ago, have offered to pay Iran billions of dollars in war reparations...
Desert sheiks banked their oil wealth there, took their pleasures there. Money poured in. Multinational companies installed their regional headquarters. Lebanese lawyers would know more about Iraqi law than Iraqi lawyers, or more about Saudi law than Saudis. The Lebanese were cheerfully prepared to do anything for a price...
With the important exception w Egyptian President Hosni Mu barak, most of Iraq's Arab allies fallen silent. Jordan's King Hussein, has contributed a few soldiers and arms to Saddam Hussein's war effort, said little of late about his old ally Baghdad. The Iraqi government its friends last week, noting that "it no purpose to keep quiet on the pretext not ranks." wanting to Unhappily for cause a split Saddam in Arab ranks seemed to be around a strategy that might...