Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparent softening of the U.S. position is really no more than hard political reality: Bush cannot appear to be indifferent to the plight of innocent Iraqi citizens. Washington officials believe, with good cause, that Saddam has ample food to feed his people. Since March 22, the Security Council's sanctions committee has received notice of exporters' intentions to ship more than 2 million tons of food to Iraq -- nearly one ton for every nine Iraqis. In addition, Baghdad has been permitted to import generators, medical supplies, water pumps and water-treatment systems...
...believed to have $2 billion worth of stockpiled gold and an additional $1 billion worth looted from Kuwait's Central Bank. "Saddam has enough for vital imports at the moment, if he were to define vital imports as including food and medicine," says Patrick Clawson, an expert on the Iraqi economy and editor of the Philadelphia-based foreign-policy journal Orbis. "Instead, he's buying luxury goods for his immediate entourage, equipment for his security apparatus and military goods...
Early in the afternoon of Feb. 25, when allied troops were less than two days from liberating Kuwait City, three Iraqi officers led by Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Rida burst into the capital's Plaza Hotel. Confronting Khalid and Ali, the Palestinians who had kept the place running during the seven-month occupation, Rida calmly issued a terrifying order. "We will be back tomorrow," he said. "You will produce the women you have hidden. We will have a last party. if you do not provide, you will...
...attended college in the U.S. Kuwait was and is the only country they have ever known, and both men had risked their lives aiding the Kuwaiti resistance. They regularly moved money and guns around the city in Ali's white Chevrolet Sprint and had obtained a fake Iraqi identity card for the Plaza's Kuwaiti owner...
Shortly after the Iraqi officers left the Plaza, Khalid moved 32 women to a nearby mosque and determined that he would rather forfeit his life than aid in the planned rape. Sometime before morning, however, Colonel Rida and thousands of other Iraqi troops pulled out of the city. Over the next 24 hours, many of the retreating soldiers (and an undetermined number of Kuwaiti hostages accompanying them) died as allied aircraft bombed the highway that led back to Iraq. "We can only pray that Rida was one of them," says Khalid...