Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST BOMBS ACCOMPLISHED LITTLE, SO U.S. warships on Sunday fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at an Iraqi industrial park near Baghdad that Washington said housed a nuclear facility. Then came more bombs on Monday and Tuesday, dropped on missile batteries and air defenses in or near the northern no-fly zone that protects Kurds against Saddam Hussein's warplanes. On Tuesday Iraq declared a "cease-fire" as a gesture of "good intentions" toward incoming U.S. President Bill Clinton. It claimed to be sticking to it even after U.S. jets, fired on while flying through the northern exclusion zone both Thursday...
What Bush probably wanted most was what he has failed to achieve all along: to provoke the Iraqi people into taking matters into their own hands. This raid alone had little chance of accomplishing that. But "if Saddam goes on playing the same game, he can expect the same response," says a British diplomat. "We hope some of those around him will see that the only sensible alternative...
...constraints imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats, you don't respond. If someone comes to us in a nice way, we respond," Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon insists. Would Saddam...
Less than 10% of the oil dumped into the world's oceans each year is the result of large, well-publicized spills involving wrecked tankers or malicious Iraqi generals. Most of the fouling is caused by thousands of small, unrecorded spills from tankers and ships and by runoff from industrial plants. Oil's assault on the oceans is unceasing. Fortunately, as the Shetlands spill has shown, the seas have a greater ability to absorb punishment than humanity has any right to expect...
Saddam, with his usual bluster, warned Iraqis that "another great battle" had begun. After another ultimatum from Bush on Friday, the Iraqis promised to allow weapons inspectors to fly to Baghdad, but would not guarantee their safety. The crisis escalated through the weekend when Iraqi radar threatened U.S. jets over the northern no-fly zone and an American F-16 shot down an Iraqi MiG-29. Baghdad seemed intent on contesting control of its skies. Washington said that Saddam would receive no further warning before the U.S. retaliated in force. (See related story on page...