Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achieve Clinton's objective. Biological weapons are so small and concealable that no air campaign could be sure of getting rid of them, even if the Pentagon knew what Saddam was hiding and where. (It does not.) Bombing Saddam into submission is no sure thing either, because the Iraqi President, who builds palaces while his people starve, seems willing to let his country hunker down and absorb almost limitless punishment. Such an attack would involve bomber squadrons as well as missiles, endangering American lives. It would also convulse the Arab world, which fears a destabilized Iraq--"Beirut with ballistic missiles...
...those allies on board in some fashion by asking them to try to change Saddam's mind. Clinton planned to speak on the phone over the weekend with both Boris Yeltsin and Jacques Chirac; Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who has been in frequent contact with Iraqi leaders, would like to play peace broker. If Clinton asked him to fly to Baghdad, he would happily do so. But Clinton isn't optimistic about diplomacy's chances, and there is no sign that either France or Russia is willing to budge on the issue of using force...
...dispersing his surface-to-air missile batteries and bunkering his jets. TIME has learned that fighters from the Nimitz planned to accompany the first U-2 reconnaissance flight on Sunday or Monday, flying at a much lower altitude than the spy plane, which cruises at 90,000 ft. An Iraqi missile attack on the U-2 or its fighter escorts could dissolve Russian, French and Chinese opposition to the use of force--and give America a reason to pull the trigger. To deliver that punch, a formidable armada was assembling: the carriers Nimitz and George Washington (which began steaming...
...strikes are planned against the headquarters of the Iraqi officials who barred the U.N. inspectors from doing their job and against many of 200 suspected production centers for weapons of mass destruction--80 of them for chemical weapons, 100 for biological weapons and 20 for nuclear weapons, according to a Defense Department official. Unlike chemical and nuclear weapons, which require elaborate industrial facilities and make relatively easy targets, biological agents can be produced in a place the size of a two-room apartment. "There's no way we can find and bomb them all," says the source. But where...
...food and medicine.) The motives of the French and the Russians are suspect, however, because both countries stand to reap financial windfalls from a lifting of sanctions. Iraq owes Russia an estimated $10 billion in foreign-aid loans--money that can't be paid back so long as Iraqi funds are frozen--and Russian companies have some $20 billion in contracts with Iraq ready to kick in if sanctions are lifted. France's Elf Aquitaine and Total Petroleum companies are negotiating similar deals...