Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chilean-Iraqi connection
...Iraqi military experts explain that they want the cluster bombs to defend themselves against the kind of human-wave assaults that Iran has tried in the past. They could also do considerable damage to the pipelines and loading equipment at Kharg Island and other Iranian oil terminals. The Chilean cluster bombs represent only a fraction of Iraq's huge arsenal, which consists mostly of weapons bought from the Soviet Union and France. But for Chile's budding arms industry the deal offers visibility, and perhaps field testing, in one of the bloodiest wars now under...
...Turkey to meet its quotas under the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Work is expected to begin soon on two pipeline projects, including one that would cut across Jordan to the port of Aqaba, and another that would join with Saudi Arabia's petroline and carry Iraqi oil to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. Iraqi officials talk of finishing one or both projects within 18 months. Together with the existing line that carries 1 million bbl. a day of Iraqi crude through Turkey, these pipelines would give Iraq an export capacity of 2.5 million...
Thus the mining of the Red Sea could be interpreted as a warning to Iraq and its closest Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. The Saudis are cooperating with Iraq in the pipeline project as well as helping fund the Iraqi war effort. Jordan helps Iraq buy arms throughout the world, and then allows the weapons to be shipped through Jordan to Iraq. It also permits an estimated 90,000 bbl. of Iraqi oil a day to pass through Jordan by truck. Egypt annually sells Iraq $800 million worth of locally manufactured arms and ammunition, while acting...
...cause of the present war. In 1975 the Shah of Iran signed an agreement with Iraq that gave Iran a share of the Shatt al Arab waterway at the head of the gulf in exchange for the Shah's withdrawal of support for Kurds fighting the Baghdad regime. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched his war against Iran in 1980 partly to recover what he had signed away five years earlier. He now has fewer problems with Kurds than Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini does, largely because he created an autonomous Kurdish region within Iraq in 1970. Still, roads in Iraqi Kurdistan...