Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours, the shooting officially ended. At 5 a.m. (9 p.m. Wednesday in Washington) Bush went on the air to announce that he was ordering a suspension of all offensive action, to take effect three hours later. Since it was a unilateral action rather than an agreement negotiated with the Iraqis, it was not officially a cease-fire, but it had the same result. Shooting in fact stopped at 8 a.m., and only sporadic incidents broke the silence as the weekend began. Some Iraqi units appeared not to get the word at first; allied troops set up loudspeakers blaring over...
...that was no simple task. The allies were pressing for a swift exchange of prisoners, but did that include the Kuwaiti civilians -- as many as 40,000 -- believed to have been carried into Iraq by Saddam's retreating forces? And what would the coalition do with the many Iraqi prisoners who feared, with reason, that they might be shot if they went home? Should Saddam's forces be allowed to take out of Kuwait what heavy equipment they had left, or must they leave it behind as spoils...
Postmortems had already begun. Baghdad Radio claimed that Iraq had won but could give no rationale except some mumblings about spirit. In Moscow generals hastened to proclaim that the destruction of Iraq's mostly Soviet-built equipment said more about the deficiencies of the Iraqi military than the quality of the weapons. Some of them hinted, however, that Soviet cuts in military spending, if carried much further, might begin to weaken the nation's defenses against the demonstrated proficiency of Western high-tech weaponry...
...will have much oil to refine until fire fighters extinguish the Iraqi-set blazes that raged last week through more than 500 of Kuwait's 1,000 wells, blackening the country's sky. It will require millions of gallons of water and tons of dynamite and other explosives to snuff out the flames. "It's one gigantic mess," says Red Adair, whose Houston company is one of four Texas firms engaged in the effort. "No one knows what we're really in for. I've never seen anything like this before in my life." Experts say dousing the fires...
...noble but naive notion. The Arab haves, which were threatened by Saddam, are not especially happy with most of the have-nots -- Jordan, Yemen, the Palestinians and the Sudan, all of whom cheered the Iraqi invader. The exceptions are Egypt and Syria, which are likely to receive rewards -- for their help in defeating Saddam, not for the misfortune of being impoverished...