Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decide their own timetable. With the three-week standoff still fresh in everyone's memory and the Russian-brokered deal that ended it still tenuous, the U.S. isn't about to strong-arm its way into these palaces ? even if they do constitute a suspiciously large amount of Iraqi real estate...
...month McLaughlin, a four-year veteran in the Hornet, had spent practically every other day "in the box," aviator slang for flights over southern Iraq. The missions were routine, and until recently flyers joked that they would "have a better chance of seeing Jesus than an Iraqi jet." Even the past week, the skies had been quiet. No Iraqi radar had been turned on to "paint" the Nimitz's jets as targets, so far as the pilots could tell. Still, "every time you get in the jet and go over Iraq, you never know if this is going...
Years of repression have all but silenced opposition to Saddam Hussein, who can command mass demonstrations of devotion at any time. As the specter of a U.S. attack rose, obedient Iraqis streamed into the presidential palace to act as human shields. They chanted and moved on cues from government officials. Most appeared enthusiastic, waved posters of the Iraqi leader and vowed absolute loyalty. Some mothers with young children seemed exhausted and indifferent. Others were confused: "How long must we stay?" "What should we do?" They received no answers...
...conference room, Saddam just might be the exception to the rule. His power flows not from the consent of his people but from firing squads and torture chambers. He has ordered the death of tens of thousands and used cyanide, nerve gas and mustard gas against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Trained as an assassin--while a young man he took part in a 1959 attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs and, U.N. inspectors believe, he is working to amass a stock of nerve...
...Iraqi officials claim ? logically, some might say ? that such a move would be like letting the U.N. root around at the White House. Nonsense, replies Washington, Saddam is stalling. As before, the truth depends on whether you believe that Saddam's decision to allow the inspectors to return was, in the words of Defense Secretary William Cohen, "a change of heart or a change of tactics...