Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Administration sources, the resumption of ties will be effected next week, when Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meets in Washington with President Reagan. Washington officials believe Iraq's four-year war with Iran has been the incentive for Baghdad to move closer to the U.S. Says one U.S. diplomat: "They have now made it clear they can defend themselves by themselves, so this would be the proper moment to go ahead and reestablish ties with...
...more than 6 to 1 in jet fighters, by nearly 5 to 1 in tanks and by almost 4 to 1 in heavy guns. By relentlessly attacking oil tankers in the gulf, Iraq has sharply reduced Iran's petroleum exports, though it has not yet crippled them. Another Iraqi advantage is that its morale these days is at a wartime high. Boasts Major General Maher Abed al Rashid of the Iraqi Third Army: "Let Iran attack with 200,000 or half a million. None will return alive...
...image was grimly familiar: a fighter flashing across the morning sky over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure...
After the initial attack, Iraqi Ambassador to Great Britain Wahbi Abdul-Razza al Qaraghuli was summoned to the Foreign Office and rebuked by British Assistant Under Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs Stephen Egerton. Iraq made no official reply, but Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz asked a gathering at the Foreign Policy Association in New York: "Why do they complain that we have killed their boys? Why did they send their boys in the first place...
...gulf last week, Iraqi planes continued to threaten shipping. One missile caused only slight damage to a Liberian-registered supertanker, the St. Tobias. But another of the weapons was believed to have been responsible for destroying a small, German-operated supply ship off Iran's Kharg Island. The explosion killed the ship's eleven-member crew, including three British divers. Britain promptly issued a "strong protest" to Iraq...