Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five of the condemned men are Shi'ite Muslims who belong to Iraq's underground and Iran-backed Al Dawa Party. Committed to toppling the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, they plotted the attacks to punish Kuwait, France and the U.S. for allegedly supporting Iraq in its 42-month war against Iran. Yet the attempt proved to be both ill-managed and ill-starred. Most of the blast from a car bomb outside the French embassy was absorbed by a thick brick wall. Another car bomb, meant to wreck a local petrochemical complex, exploded outside the compound...
Ever since last October, when the French delivered five Super Etendard fighter planes, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been threatening to use the sophisticated weaponry to stop Iran from exporting oil from its Kharg Island terminal. That threat roused international concern. If Saddam Hussein proved as bad as his word, the war between Iraq and Iran might extend to other parts of the Persian Gulf and affect oil shipments of such Iraqi neighbors and benefactors as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Last week those fears came closer to facts. Baghdad sent the French planes into action, striking two ships...
...White House than Ronald Reagan. Yet in the early months of Reagan's presidency, Israel administered a series of violent shocks to the Administration and to public opinion-its expanded policy of building settlements in the West Bank, its attack on June 7,1981, on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, its vigorous opposition to the sale of American AWACS to Saudi Arabia. As a result, the assumption that the U.S. would always unreservedly support Israel in a contest of interests with its Arab neighbors ceased to apply...
...majority cites the Iraqi use of chemical warfare as a example of Soviet law-breaking and calls for a united front, presumably made up of Western nations, to oppose Soviet activity. But such a united front would have to exclude West Germany, the country that sold the weapons to Iraq. It would also have to exclude the United States; especially when President Reagan dares to speak of a worldwide ban on chemical warfare testing production and possession while mentioning the need for "limited retaliatory capability...
...each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses, and crude political cartoons depicting a crumbling Star of David or a malevolent Menachem Begin loading a cannon with shells provided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A message emblazoned on the back cover reads: WHY DO WE WANT TO LIBERATE JERUSALEM? WE CAN DO IT THROUGH THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BAATH PARTY...