Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bombing runs that visibly reduced Iraqi targets to instant rubble. Midair collisions between Scud and Patriot missiles. Pentagon press conferences explaining live the blow by blow of battle. To the U.S. public, these unforgettable images made the gulf war the most reported conflict in memory. But journalists, aware that enterprise was thwarted and that news organs served mainly as conduits for government, regard the war as a setback for press freedom and thus for holding bureaucrats accountable...
MacArthur quotes many leading journalists gloomily appraising gulf war coverage. But he has few revelations. By far his most striking was unveiled last January in a New York Times op-ed page piece. He debunks the headlined story that Iraqi invaders took Kuwaiti babies out of incubators to die. The star witness in a congressional investigation of this supposed episode was a teary 15-year-old using a pseudonym. She was, in fact, the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., and MacArthur implies that the whole episode was concocted by Kuwaiti officials and their public relations agency, Hill...
...knocked out 30 fixed and 16 mobile Scud missile launchers. Iraq contends that coalition forces failed to hit a single one of its launchers. A spokesman for the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq said last week that some launchers had been destroyed under U.N. supervision and that the Iraqis claimed to have scrapped the rest on their own. There was no evidence to disprove the Iraqi claim. In Washington, the Pentagon's Pete Williams conceded that damage to the Scuds "was less than we previously thought...
...leading a second invasion of Iraq? Some Iraqis think so. But this time, they say, the invading force is a flood of counterfeit bank notes -- Iraqi dinars, as well as bogus American $100 bills. In a letter last month to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Baghdad accused the U.S. of making a bid to undermine Iraq's economy by directing efforts to smuggle in counterfeit money from several neighboring countries, including Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. At home, Iraqis also joke about being able to pick out "Israeli" and "Kurdish" dinars, according to where the notes...
...also being fueled by Baghdad's own overheated production of bank notes. To cover government salaries and the cost of postwar reconstruction, Iraq has been printing money at a rapid clip, on cheaper paper, which makes counterfeiting easier. Currency dealers in New York City say that some genuine Iraqi dinars are now so sloppily printed that on first inspection they appear to be inept forgeries...