Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Sri Lankan diplomat, a former ambassador to the U.S., has just become one of the most important people in the Iraq crisis. Dhanapala was tapped by Kofi Annan to lead the U.N.'s "white glove" team of chaperones that will accompany weapons inspectors into Iraqi palaces...
...such precision highlights a problem: the effectiveness of those weapons is directly proportional to the quality of the intelligence used in selecting their targets. For many sites on the Pentagon's growing list of Iraqi targets, U.S. knowledge is scant. If war does come to Iraq soon, it is a good bet that lots of very expensive U.S. smart bombs are going to be blowing up lots of recently vacated Iraqi buildings...
Barely 9% of the bombs dropped during the Gulf War were smart bombs, and the Pentagon never released videos of B-52s carpet-bombing Iraqi troops or of smart bombs that missed. It was in September 1995 that U.S. smart weapons really triumphed. In a three-week campaign that was 70% smart bombs, the U.S. military drove the Bosnian Serbs to the Dayton, Ohio, negotiating table, ending the three-year Balkan war. The Air Force claims that it hit 97% of its targets and damaged or destroyed 80% of those it struck. It is that success the Pentagon will...
Like presidential approval ratings, stock prices tend to inflate when the U.S. engages in armed conflict. Look no further than the tireless bull market that we enjoy today. It began in 1991 when the U.S. drove Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi army out of Kuwait. The first allied air raids came on Jan. 17 of that year and sent the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 4.6% in a day. By mid-March the Dow had jumped...
...Annan, a wily diplomat who was Washington?s pick for the top job, is unlikely to disappoint. He knows a deal that ties UNSCOM?s hands is not worth coming back to New York with. His spokesman Fred Eckhard indicated that one of the major hurdles in previous Iraqi offers -- time limits on weapons inspections -- was not present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that?s just window dressing. The secretary general hinted at the real deal when he said the document mentions sanctions...