Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This particular bunker became a target because of the effectiveness of earlier U.S. attacks on Baghdad. In the opening days of the war, the allies' strategic objective was to "decapitate" the Iraqi armed forces, to cut Saddam Hussein and his top officers off from the army in the south. Bombing raids were mounted to destroy command headquarters and military communications centers in the heart of the capital. As these were knocked out, the task of coordinating the armed forces was decentralized to secondary posts in the suburbs -- like the one hit last week...
...Central Command had compiled a priority list of targets. At the top, along with command-and-control facilities, were military production centers, power and water supplies, and bridges and roads leading south to Kuwait. Most of those have been destroyed. The main bombing wave is moving south, onto the Iraqi army that is dug in facing Saudi Arabia...
Fighter-bomber pilots have divided the battlefield into small, lettered squares on the map called "killing zones." Working their way across the desert, sector by sector, spotters direct strike planes onto specific targets on the ground. Electronic-warfare planes black out ground-based Iraqi radar, as airborne tankers circle lazily to refuel the fighters that line up behind them. The whole armada is choreographed by controllers in AWACs radar planes, who see everything in the air for more than 200 miles in any direction. The Iraqis in Kuwait, says Captain Jessie Morimoto, a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, have "stopped...
These direct attacks on Iraqi forces have already destroyed as much as a third of their armor and artillery. Warfare will never be foolproof, and air power alone has yet to win a war. But once the ground attack begins, allied pilots will learn soon enough whether their efforts have greatly improved the chances for a swift breakthrough...
...country an estimated $1 billion a year. Peace came in 1988, and a triumphant but broke Iraq froze the wages of foreign workers and forbade funds to be sent out of the country. Thousands of Egyptians suddenly began facing job competition from demobilized soldiers. Many were ill-treated by Iraqis, some getting impressed into the Iraqi army, others enduring beatings, robbings and even murder. For ) several months last year the Egyptian press reported almost daily the number of returning coffins of Egyptians who had died in suspicious circumstances in Iraq...