Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Were thousands of Iraqis buried alive during the allied operation against their front line last February? U.S. Army officers say that as tanks equipped with plows and bulldozers punched holes in the 70-mile-long Iraqi defense strip, enemy soldiers who refused to surrender were trapped under avalanches of sand. Colonel Anthony Moreno, commander of a unit that followed the initial U.S. breakthrough, recalls seeing arms protruding from the sand. "For all I know, we could have buried thousands," he told New York Newsday...
...name, Ja'afer Dhaieh Ja'afer, is little known even in scientific circles, but U.S. intelligence sources have identified the Iraqi-born physicist as his country's version of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Ja'afer, a Shi'ite Muslim, is an outspoken human-rights advocate who has been jailed for his protests against Saddam Hussein's oppression. Yet he has been honing his country's nuclear capabilities since the early 1960s. He directed operations at the Osirak reactor until an Israeli raid destroyed it in 1981, and he later served as senior technician for the Tarmiya and Sharqat pilot plants, centerpieces...
...months ago, the world watched as Iraqi Scuds hurtled down on Israeli and Saudi Arabian cities. American Patriot antiballistic missiles foiled many of those strikes. Now a standard feature on the TV evening news is the cat-and- mouse game that Saddam Hussein is playing with international inspectors looking for evidence of his Manhattan Project...
Meanwhile, Kuwaitis will continue enjoying a new pastime: the daily 15- minute radio program that recounts tales of the Iraqi invaders' stupidity. Three weeks ago, a roomful of Kuwaitis dissolved into laughter when the announcer recalled the troops who stole computer screens thinking they were TVs, and then wondered why "Lotus 123" never came on the air. When not laughing at their onetime tormentors, some Kuwaitis poke fun at the desirability of living in their wrecked country. A favorite joke has Kuwait's Public Works Ministry rushing to complete a new highway to Saudia Arabia, with all six lanes going...
Later, realizing he had failed to dissuade Bush from launching a ground assault against the Iraqi army in Kuwait, Gorbachev took pains to assure the U.S. President that there were no hard feelings. He signed off after one of their last wartime calls, in English, "O.K., goodbye...