Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force AWACS reconnaissance plane picked them up on radar. The AWACS crew immediately radioed a pair of U.S. F-15C fighters and asked them to take a closer look. Though there had been no reported violations of the no-fly zone over northern Iraq since January 1993, Iraqi helicopters had been a problem in the past, when Saddam Hussein used them to suppress the Kurdish rebellion that erupted after the Gulf War ended in 1991. The crews of the F-15Cs twice flew past the copters and identified them as Russian-made Hinds flown by the Iraqi military. The fateful...
...impact of the Iraqi trade embargo: The cooperation and commitment that we have given to achieve a comprehensive peace in this region do not justify the treatment Jordan has received. The embargo has done tremendous damage to Jordan. We have lost a lot of our traditional markets. Insurance premiums have been almost impossible. We even have to pay for the inspection of the ships. And we have noticed an increase in this last year rather than a decrease in these inspections and interceptions offshore. We have lost 16 regular lines * that used to serve the port of Aqaba, our only...
...Vienna on July 11, 1989, to negotiate an autonomy agreement with emissaries of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. After 10 years of fighting, the government seemed eager to reach a settlement. For two days, Qassemlou, his deputy Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar, 37, and Fadhil Rasoul, 38, a Vienna-based Iraqi Kurd serving as a mediator, talked in a borrowed apartment with interior-ministry official Mohammed Jaafari Sahraroudi and Hadji Moustafavi, a.k.a. Ladjeverdi, an intelligence operative. A third Iranian, Amir Mansour Bozorgian, stood guard at the door...
...that the 12-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Vienna just before Thanksgiving, could not agree on a plan to cut production. Output from non-OPEC sources is rising too, and there is a possibility that United Nations sanctions against Iraq will be eased, allowing some Iraqi oil to flow abroad again. All that adds to a heavy surplus of supply over demand...
...Three years after a trade embargo began crushing its economy, Iraq quietly agreed to U.N. monitoring of its industrial base to prevent any attempt to reacquire weapons of mass destruction. Baghdad demanded an immediate lifting of sanctions against purchase of Iraqi oil, once its main source of foreign revenue. But Washington, among others, called for further proof of cooperation before allowing such a move...