Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand that the damage to the Iraqi installations is not that bad. It appears that Iraq could pump at least 1.6 million bbl. per day early next year. The Iranians probably much less...
...squabble erupt into open battle. One reason is that the Arab world is deeply fragmented as a result of the war between Iraq and Iran. The open support of Jordan and the tacit backing of Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for Syria's archenemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has left Syria feeling isolated and threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with Iran. As one U.S. analyst...
...boycott ringleader was Syria, which feared that it would be censured in Amman for backing non-Arab Iran against Arab Iraq. For nearly a decade, Syrian President Hafez Assad has feuded on and off with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. So great is Assad's anti-Baghdad antagonism that he was willing to risk isolation in the Arab world with his support of Iran. The fact that the summit was in Jordan, Iraq's staunchest Arab ally, also displeased Assad...
...Syria feared, the summit took a pro-Iraqi stand on the war, citing that country's "legitimate rights to its lands and waters." Significantly, though, the final communiqué called on the belligerents "to cease fire immediately and solve their conflict by peaceful means...
Since that plea was also endorsed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the summit, a U.S. State Department analyst surmised that it could be a sign "that Iraq is getting desperate for some respite." In a concluding statement of his own, however, Saddam Hussein said that Iraq would never withdraw until Iran agreed to all its territorial claims. On the battlefronts, in fact, Iraq and Iran each reported extraordinary success, but both were actually still bogged down in positions they have held for weeks. The Iraqis claimed that since the war began Sept. 22 they have killed 5,600 Iranian...