Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President-elect did not need the reminder. Dipping his toe into the Iraqi morass the day of the raid, he stumbled. In an interview with the New York Times, he called the raid "the right thing to do," then seemed to open a small window for Saddam: "If you want a different relationship with me, you could begin by upholding the U.N. requirements to change your behavior. I'm not obsessed with the man." The softer rhetoric set off speculation that he might ease U.S. policy toward Baghdad. Clinton angrily denounced what he called a misinterpretation, and the tenor...
...Even Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, victim ofa string of U.S. air attacks this week, offeredhis own brand of inaugural blessings yesterday bypromising a brief cease-fire...
...Iraqi state newspaper still had sharpwords for former President George Bush...
...another -- most notably when inspectors were trying to get into suspected nuclear-bombmaking sites -- Saddam has defied U.N. restrictions on his activities only to pull back just enough, and just in time, to avoid provoking a new round of shooting and bombing. The latest probes began around Christmas, when Iraqi jets flew into the exclusion zone established to protect Saddam's rebellious Shi'ite subjects from air raids. American planes shot down an Iraqi jet Dec. 27, but that apparently moved Saddam to send in the missiles...
...Iraqi dictator may well go on prodding and probing. In fact, he announced a no-fly zone of his own that might keep tensions high: U.N. weapons inspectors would not be allowed to fly on U.N. planes inside Iraq. He obviously wants to test George Bush's resolve in his last days in office, and Bill Clinton's too. (Clinton has taken quite as strong a stand as Bush). Saddam may also be hoping that some countries may tire of the confrontations and cease supporting the U.S. China went along with previous anti-Iraq moves in the U.N. Security Council...