Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July, when gas-guzzling American vacationers galore will be hitting the road. Nor will the 700,000 bbl. a day that Baghdad will be allowed to sell to raise hard currency for food and medicine amount to more than a 1% boost in worldwide oil production. Nonetheless, experts say Iraqi oil should help lower U.S. pump prices by midsummer. Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, estimates that gas prices could fall as much as 10' per gal. before the end of the driving season...
...well enough with United Nations monitoring to be allowed to sell oil for food and medicine. Hearing that news, I couldn't help wondering whether I should have been able to predict some movement toward flexibility in Baghdad when I noticed an Associated Press item last March that began, "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ordered an end to the practice of cutting off the ears of army deserters and draft dodgers...
This just-not-in-time shortfall has been accelerated by apparently overoptimistic expectations that negotiations between the U.N. and Iraq would shortly bring a return to the marketplace of Iraqi oil--700,000 bbl. a day--which would lower oil prices. That hasn't happened, so refiners are buying higher-priced crude and passing along their increased costs to drivers...
...downsized force significantly upgraded," Peay said, "weak in air, strong in army, that is significantly more capable than the other neighboring states are able to handle." Some of the elite guard and key military infrastructure escaped the war unscathed as well, says TIME's Mark Thompson. "The Iraqi army is slimmed down, emaciated even, but it remains a potent force," says Thompson. "Before the Persian Gulf War, Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world. In the wake of the war, even if we had cut them in half, which we didn't, it would still be a powerful...
Finally, on Feb. 17, he wrote his father-in-law requesting permission to return. It was granted last Monday, when Saddam pardoned his prodigal sons-in-law. Forty-eight hours after the entourage reached Baghdad, however, Iraqi Youth TV announced that both daughters had obtained divorces--a sign that they would not, despite their promises, be sharing their husbands' fate. One day later, the Iraqi News Agency said the brothers, their father and a younger sibling had been killed in a gun battle when angry clansmen stormed the family residence, declaring that their "blood should be shed because of their...