Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraqi standards, the rebels' acts of defiance were extraordinarily bold. Public portraits of Saddam were defiled. Protesters scrawled DOWN WITH THE DICTATOR on walls. Several jails were stormed, and their inmates freed. In Amarah the headquarters of the ruling Baath Party was reportedly torched...
...gassing of rebellious Kurds in Halabja in 1988, killing 5,000. Baghdad also expelled all foreign journalists from the country, perhaps to eliminate witnesses to a coming bloodbath. Opposition leaders were terrified that Saddam would use chemical weapons against his own people once again. U.S. officials last week warned Iraqi diplomats in Washington and New York against such action. The diplomats said their government had no intention of using gas, but one Shi'ite leader claimed it had already been used...
...Iraqi exile groups last week were busy trying to win backing for the uprisings, in part by playing down the threat of partition. The Joint Action Committee, an umbrella group linking 17 disparate organizations, asserted that its members were united in wanting a democratic, unified Iraq -- though many of them want no such thing. The association, which includes several Shi'ite and Kurdish groups, communists, Sunni nationalists and pro-Syrian Baathists, is riven with strife...
Mustafa al-Kubaisi, who was 29, was born in Kuwait to Iraqi parents. He worked as an overseas telephone operator and enjoyed the cradle-to-grave benefits of Kuwait's welfare state, but he could never be sure of his status. Because of his parents' Iraqi origins, and despite his having been born in Kuwait, he had to have a work permit to remain in the country. Naturalization, common throughout the world, is virtually impossible in Kuwait...
When Iraq invaded Kuwait, Mike lay low. But then another childhood friend, a woman named Esrar al-Ghabandi, was killed. Unlike Mike, Esrar had joined the resistance immediately. After Esrar had made four trips to Saudi Arabia to deliver information about Iraqi troop movements in Kuwait, Mike and some friends discovered her mutilated body. Esrar had been axed in the head and shot seven times in her breasts and vagina. Within days, Mike and his friends formed their own resistance cell, which operated apart from the more organized efforts of other Kuwaitis. They met frequently to plan strategy, and Mustafa...