Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From outside the Abu Gharib barracks near Baghdad, inspectors for the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency could see what one member called "frenzied activity": trucks, cranes and forklifts moving out heavy, draped objects. But Iraqi soldiers would not let them in until three days later. By then, said Hans Blix, head of the IAEA, there was "no longer any trace of the activities and objects" his people had seen before...
...there is not much doubt about what the Iraqis were doing. They were playing an exasperating, and dangerous, shell game with calutrons, which are World War II-era devices to enrich uranium so that it can produce a nuclear explosive. The IAEA concluded after a May inspection that calutrons had been present and then removed from a nuclear site in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad. U.S. intelligence tracked the calutrons to the barracks and then to the Al Fallujah facility west of Baghdad, where the U.N. inspectors went last Friday -- only to find once again trucks carting equipment away. Several inspectors...
...back on this solemn agreement." In theory, the U.S. and its allies could resume air attacks if Saddam does not turn over the calutrons and any other bombmaking gear for destruction, as the cease-fire resolution commands. At minimum, they will continue the trade embargo that is strangling the Iraqi economy...
...nearly $1 billion in assistance from the government of Kuwait has yet to be delivered. The Kuwaitis promised Ozal the money last autumn as thanks for his country's membership in the anti-Iraq coalition. The Turks claim they lost millions of dollars in fees by shutting down an Iraqi oil pipeline that cut through Turkish soil. U.S. officials are pressuring the Kuwaitis to pony up a substantial chunk of the aid before President Bush visits Turkey later this month...
Congressional Democrats are seething over NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF's condemnation of Washington "fairies" who exaggerated the dangers of war. Many legislators contend that during a Riyadh briefing last autumn, the general emphasized the strength of the Iraqi army and predicted as many as 20,000 U.S. casualties. "This guy contributed in no small degree to the Democratic opposition to the war," complains a Senate staffer...