Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christopher Morris and Anthony Suau knew they were in trouble when the Republican Guards stopped them at a shattered bridge on the outskirts of Basra. The two photographers, who were working for TIME, were headed for the Iraqi city to cover the fighting between government troops and insurgents in the wake of the gulf war. But the guardsmen seized Morris and Suau and more than 25 other journalists on March 3, a Sunday, and ransacked their cars. "It was as if we had walked into a den of 40 thieves," said Suau, 34. "Everything disappeared very quickly...
...next six days, the group's captors shuttled the journalists from one site to another while deciding what to do with them, and the world wondered where they were. The first stop was Basra University, which was surrounded by tanks and artillery and swarming with Iraqi troops. Soldiers herded all the hostages into a small room furnished with two beds and half a dozen broken television sets. The weary journalists spent the night without food, water or much sleep, as rifle fire barked outside their windows and artillery rockets screamed overhead...
They gathered to demonstrate their unity to the world. Yet in the breaks between their formal sessions of solidarity posing at Beirut's Bristol Hotel last week, the disparate members of the Iraqi opposition could not resist heaping scorn on one another. Someone noted that before Youssef al-Durrah joined the Democratic Movement, he served as Saddam Hussein's press director. A rival pointed out that Hassan Alawi of the Arab Independents once worked as Saddam's speechwriter. And that communist, Naziha Doulaimi? Well, a critic readily volunteered, she had once been a full member of Saddam's Cabinet...
...drives through Kuwait City inspecting the damage inflicted by Iraq, Minister of State al-Awadi can barely contain his anger. "You see what they did to the museum, to the scientific center, to art in people's houses," he says. "I know it is said that the Iraqi soldiers were just following Saddam's orders, and I am sure they were. But living in a place like Iraq, with a regime like Saddam's, makes little Saddams of everyone, or brings out the Saddam in all of us. When you live in a society without principles, the rape of Kuwait...
...payoff has been an Air Force that downed 40 Iraqi planes in air-to-air combat without a loss and an Army that destroyed or captured 3,700 tanks while losing only three. On television from the gulf, America saw articulate, thoughtful soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines glowing with obvious integrity and dedication...