Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraqis proved how simple it was, beginning in 1989 with the production of anthrax--bacteria that cause deadly hemorrhaging in the brain and chest--at the Al Hakam Single Cell Protein Production Plant. In the mid-1980s, before the U.S. belatedly banned such dangerous exports, Iraq's Education Ministry ordered 70 packages of microbes and toxins from the American Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit outfit in Rockville, Md. Included were flasks of freeze-dried anthrax spores. Iraqi labs reconstituted the spores in soy broth and put them into a small fermenter filled with a growth medium. The medium, Zilinskas says...
...intelligence service, Mukhabarat; the Amn al-Khass, a security unit dedicated to hiding information; and the Special Republican Guards, troops responsible for the security of Saddam, his offices and palaces. Iraq routinely bars the U.N. from what it calls "presidential-residential" buildings, saying they are out of bounds. When Iraqi officials talk up the need for the inspectors to respect "the sovereignty of Iraq," they mean: Stay out of secret military and intelligence bases and presidential offices. These are precisely where inspectors believe some of the missing arsenals are hidden. Zilinskas thinks Saddam may be hiding other "unsavory materials," such...
...back to business as usual for the inspectors, it is probably back to blockage as usual for the Iraqis. What, exactly, will the Security Council do the next time Iraq bars the door of a barracks or a palace that the inspectors want to investigate? Past performance is not encouraging: after 25 cases of interference earlier this year, the Security Council could not even agree to increase travel restrictions on senior Iraqi officials. With Primakov having brokered a deal with Iraq to push for an end to sanctions, Moscow may be planning to veto any effort to increase the punishment...
...Children are bearing the brunt of the current economic hardship," said Philippe Heffinick, UNICEF's Baghdad representative. Unfortunately, the malnourished children are also becoming a bargaining counter and propoganda tool for Saddam Hussein. Iraqi television is dominated by images of women wailing over the bodies of eight children apparently starved to death at a Baghdad hospital...
...Unlike the infamous baby milk factory stunt during the Gulf War, this one appears to be real. The U.N. agency's extensive survey covered every area of the country and was made in cooperation with the Iraqi government ? which claims as many as 7,000 children aged under five died in October as a direct result of sanctions. The agency scheduled an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss the crisis. One easy solution they probably won't discuss ? destroying Iraq's chemical and biological warfare stockpile immediately...