Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department usually dreads sending Congressmen overseas because they can be loose cannons in sensitive negotiations. Even Richardson has been known to commit a diplomatic faux pas. During his Baghdad meeting with Saddam to free Daliberti and Barloon, the Iraqi leader stormed out briefly when Richardson crossed his legs and showed his shoe sole--a sign of disrespect in Arab culture. "We connected because I was honest and tough,'' says Richardson. "I didn't apologize, even when I crossed my legs...
...alliance destroyed 75% of Iraq's chemical-weapons production capability, along with 21 chemical-weapons storage sites. But the Pentagon has said the timing and methods of its pinpoint attacks minimized the spread of the poison bombed by the allies. And it says there were no reports of massive Iraqi casualties near the chemical-weapons targets...
Czech chemical-weapons experts, deployed along the Saudi-Iraqi border, detected sarin and mustard gas on three occasions in the war's opening days. Chemical-weapons alarms sounded in U.S., British and French units at the same time. Tuite's correlation of the detections and of satellite weather photographs taken at the time suggests that the tons of nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain...
...weapons depots in Iraq in 1991. Who made the decision to risk blowing up the chemical and biological ammunition in situ? Was the risk factor properly appraised, not only with regard to allied troops temporarily present in the vicinity of the destruction site but also with regard to the Iraqi civilian population? If "blowing up" is a correct description of what happened, and if even minute quantities of nerve gas can be a severe health hazard, one shudders at the possibilities of long-lasting contamination of the Iraqi countryside and population. And I cannot help remembering the distressing consequences...
...Iraqi bombing and invasion of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan is not an internal Iraqi affair. Erbil is situated inside the safe-haven zone imposed by the U.N. in 1991. Since the invasion of Kuwait, the Arab world has expelled Saddam and his regime. Since then, he has broken every law in the book. The Arab countries, in objecting to the American air strike, give the impression that they didn't like President Clinton's support of the Kurds. But why didn't they object to the air strikes on southern Iraq in 1993 and 1994? Why didn...