Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total lack of sympathy for Israel'ssecurity...is especially shocking given that theseconcerns have been validated recently by multipleterrorist bombings of Israeli civilians and thePalestinian people's support for an Iraqi attackon Israel just a few months ago," Silversteinsaid...
...decision day for Iraq. For the first time in nearly a year, the thorny question of sanctions is set to come up before the U.N. Security Council Monday. But if Iraqi leaders think their oft-quoted vision of "light at the end of the tunnel" is going to be shared by their 15 adjudicators, they have another think coming. "I predict there will be no agreement to anything being done on sanctions," said British ambassador Sir John Weston. The reason: Richard Butler's claim that UNSCOM has made "virtually no progress" in recent weapons inspections. Even the Russians...
...Which means that Iraq could be about to play games once more with the U.N. Official Iraqi newspapers are making dark threats of sanctions-busting, while foreign minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told the New York Times Sunday that "trade has already started." Whether that means Iraq is selling oil illegally, risking another Gulf conflict, al-Sahaf wouldn't say. But bluster or otherwise, the timing of his statement was no accident. The Security Council can consider itself duly warned...
...Iraqi government announced last week that NASSIR AL-HINDAWI, a 70-year-old microbiologist who is the former director of Iraq's biological-weapons program, was arrested trying to fly out of Baghdad with 200 pages of documents on SADDAM HUSSEIN's germ-warfare program. Though Iraqi police claim he was taking the documents to a "rogue" nation, White House aides suspect that the arrest was staged as part of an elaborate psychological operation by Saddam to persuade the United Nations that he is now serious about dismantling his weapons of mass destruction. After the arrest, the police turned over...
...article "Parade of the Dead Babies" [WORLD, March 2]: We ride in with our white hats to save the world from Saddam and his "weapons of mass destruction," yet it is precisely our weapons and policies that have led to the suffering, destruction and death of millions of innocent Iraqi civilians. When did Iraqi lives become so expendable? Aren't we the country that touts the value of human life? Are we to believe that Iraq is the only country in the world developing chemical and biological weapons? Just what is our real agenda? DOUG WAGNER Beaverton...