Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such dire numbers don't stop armchair generals from fantasizing. Prying Saddam out of Baghdad with Iraqi rebels is a doomed enterprise, they believe. "If you were to have a credible program for the removal of Saddam Hussein, it's going to involve U.S. ground troops," says Senator Richard Lugar, an influential member of the Foreign Relations Committee. And if Saddam won't give up power? "I suspect then," Lugar says, "that he will have to be killed." The Indiana Republican concedes he's using "a novelist's imagination" to chart Saddam's fate. Pentagon officials agree that such wishful...
Ahmed Allawi, an AK-47 rifle slung over his shoulder, crouched in a hilltop cemetery in northern Iraq on a chilly night in March 1995. He and other guerrillas were launching their first armed assault on the Iraqi army since the formation of the opposition Iraqi National Congress three years earlier...
Their aim: overthrow Saddam Hussein. "We thought we were writing the history of Iraq," recalls Allawi, who bristled with adrenaline as the fighters overran three Iraqi positions. "But what happened later showed we were totally wrong...
After the Gulf War, Iraqi rebels grouped themselves into a coalition called the I.N.C., believing that the U.S. would back them. CIA money started flowing in and later, in a private letter from Vice President Al Gore, the Administration assured I.N.C. president Ahmed Chalabi of its commitment, promising "whatever additional support we can reasonably provide...
Those words of encouragement helped the I.N.C. flower briefly. Guerrillas dropped leaflets on Baghdad and thousands of Iraqi army defectors were lured into I.N.C. camps by the promise of a real opposition to Saddam...