Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pentagon officials said some Iraqi troop units had pulled back from combat positions near Kuwait's border, citing "fairly broad movement" among the 71,000 soldiers assembled alongside the emirate. President Clinton said he was "hopeful" the withdrawal would gel, but no one in the Administration publicly let their guard down. Indeed, Defense Secretary William Perry reportedly is headed to Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council, meanwhile, spent the day hashing out ideas to nudge Saddam Hussein's men back toward Baghdad, including declaring a wide off-limits zone in southern Iraq and pressing Saddam to sell $1.6 billion worth...
...report released today says about 2.5 million children, pregnant women and nursing mothers face severe malnutrition because of food shortages in Iraq. The U.N. Children's Fund said the Iraqi government's recent cutbacks in food rations are responsible; Baghdad blamed the cutbacks on a poor harvest and on U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...Colonel Randy May is charged with 26 counts of negligent homicide for his role in the downing of two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq last April. The charges are not his first "official" recognition from the military. More than three years ago, during the Gulf War, May downed an Iraqi Hind helicopter in the same area and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his "professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty...
...Victory was never defined -- so the U.S. did not know when it could successfully go home. President George Bush could declare victory in the Persian Gulf War once the U.S.-led alliance pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. But internal conflicts like Somalia -- and Haiti -- require a "realistic assessment" of the "desired end state," Flournoy's report says, "and whether military forces can play a useful role" in achieving it. Will the overthrow of the Haitian junta be enough -- or will it take creation of a working government and economy...
...AWACS radar plane involved in last April's shooting down of two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq be court-martialed for dereliction of duty. A Defense Department study found that the AWACS crew failed to warn U.S. fighter pilots that the helicopters were American Black Hawks, not Iraqi aircraft. Twenty-six U.S. and foreign personnel were killed in the incident. An Air Force general must now decide whether the crew will stand trial...