Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BAGHDAD: It hardly registered on the radar of the world?s media, but an historic event took place here today. For the first time since the Gulf War, U.N. weapons inspectors entered an Iraqi presidential site Thursday. The Radwaniyah Palace in Bagdad played host to 20 busloads of UNSCOM officials and their diplomatic escorts -- all primed and ready to pounce on any evidence of weapons of mass destruction, right...
...quite. The unwieldy convoy hardly constitutes a rapid response team, and Iraqi officials had been notified of the inspection ahead of time. UNSCOM is keeping its expectations low for these early ?baseline? visits. Whether they will turn up anything in future trips remains to be seen. More important to Iraq is how many trips it will take before Baghdad is granted a clean bill of health. One crumb of comfort for the Iraqis: Richard Butler, the belligerent UNSCOM chief, is being rotated out as the inspections begin...
...want my tax dollars used to murder Iraqi children, women and men. It is wrong to kill innocent people because of one evil person, Saddam. CHIH-CHANG CHU Ithaca...
Your excellent detective story about the emergence of avian flu [MEDICINE, Feb. 23] was an important reminder that the most threatening bioterrorist may not be a belligerent Iraqi, a lunatic cult or a white-supremacist group but nature itself. Without warning and with little provocation, nature can deploy an army of rats and mice and an air force of birds and stealthy bats to deliver a swarm of deadly new viruses. All we can do is react to the first casualties of such an attack. EDWARD MCSWEEGAN Crofton...
...both of these cases, the U.S. let itself be taken advantage of, via either Vietnam's careful exploitation of the sensitive POW-MIA issue and domestic pressure Iraqi trade created in America before the Gulf War. In short, Reversing Relations suggests that normalizing relations requires as many different approaches as there are nations, and that the lessons learned from one situation should only be applied to others in the broadest, most cautious sense...